Of Horses and War: New Portland Jones Novel

      World War Two didn’t just wipe out tens of thousands of young  Australian…

Caroline Brazier on Playing a Doomed Scottish Queen

      Caroline Brazier, one of Australia’s finest actresses, is soon to tread the boards…

Festival Film: Memoria with Tilda Swinton

    Memoria  is beautifully filmed and imaginative – unconventional, as there is little plot. It…

Summer Fiction: Kill Me Now

    By Danka Scholtz von Lorenz Grinning? Beaming?  Smirking? Zipper-mouth face? I was scanning the…

Recipe: Luke Hines’s Golden Apple Pies

      Health nuts will enjoy, Luke Hines‘ new recipe book, Guilt-Free Snacks (Macmillan) If anyone…

Karen Herbert’s Crime Thriller

  WA author Katherine Herbert has reason to celebrate. Her debut novel, murder mystery The River…

Festival Film: Quo Vadis, Aida

        This powerful film from Bosnian director Jasmila Zbanic is woven around the…

Festival Film: Limbo

      The bleak setting of a wind-swept Scottish island is an icy purgatory for…