Hide by Matthew Griffin Bloomsbury Wendell Wilson returns from doing the shopping to find 83 year old Frank Clifton collapsed in the back yard, lying amongst the tomato bushes after having a stroke. Although they are lifetime partners, Wendell tells hospital staff that he is Frank’s brother to save “all the ugliness of some sort […]
Here at OUTinPerth, we suffer from an incurable case of bibliophilia: an insatiable, overwhelming, all-encompassing, heart-thuddingly, loin-tinglingly intense aching love for books. Who could blame us? Books smell great and they fill you with knowledge. Feed your literary addiction here at Bibliophile, where we keep you up to date with the latest great reads, both […]
by David McNamara (Thomas Clarke Publishing) After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from UWA, David McNamara needed to ‘flee from twenty years sequestration in one place’ so, for nearly 15 years he backpacked around the world. Removing himself from the tourist trails and comforts, he writes about the positives of escaping to ‘mountains and […]
by Diane Keaton (Fourth Estate) When Diane Keaton was in the ninth grade, she vowed that she would never get married. Turning sixty-six this year, she has still not married, even though it hasn’t stopped her having affairs with many of her leading men including Woody Allen, Warren Beatty and Al Pachino. And it didn’t […]
by Rose Foster (Harper Collins) Apart from being in advanced mathematics and science classes at her Melbourne school, sixteen year-old Kira Haywood feels that she is anonymous. Keeping up to date with her homework is one way to fly beneath the radar but she resents it when teachers set time-wasting tasks with no academic purpose. […]
