Booknotes: Michael Robotham, The White Crow. Take a break from the ugly world we live in and immerse yourself in this thriller. You won't regret it. notaboutbooks.blogspot.com/2025/08/cele...

Booknotes: Rob Franklin, Great Black Hope. Slick prose, set in New York after dark, and a very satisfying read. notaboutbooks.blogspot.com/2025/08/rob-...

Booknotes: Philip Coggan, The Economic Consequences of Mr Trump. An excellent demolition of Trump's tariffs. A must read. notaboutbooks.blogspot.com/2025/07/phil...

Booknotes: Sam Guthrie's The Peak. This political drama set in Canberra, Hong Kong, and Beijing, is an absolutely absorbing read. And very enlightening. notaboutbooks.blogspot.com/2025/07/sam-...

Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna, The AI Con. Essential reading if you really want to know what's going on the AI world. notaboutbooks.blogspot.com/2025/07/emil...

Booknotes: James Bradley, Landfall. Highly dramatic and intense police procedural in a disastrous climate catastrophe setting. notaboutbooks.blogspot.com/2025/05/jame...

Booknotes: Jens Beckert, How We Sold Our Future: The Failure to Fight Climate Change. This is a depressing book, because it's profoundly realistic. A must read. notaboutbooks.blogspot.com/2025/05/jens...

Booknotes: Asako Yuzuki, Butter. This novel is long but a fascinating read. It's a deep dive into the plight of women in Japanese society, and how captured they are by traditional social roles. notaboutbooks.blogspot.com/2025/04/asak...

Booknotes: David Szalay, Flesh. This novel is a thoroughly absorbing story from a master of the craft. I can't recommend it highly enough. notaboutbooks.blogspot.com/2025/04/davi...

Booknotes: Robert Lukins, Somebody Down There Likes Me. It seems wealth doesn't redeem, it condemns. notaboutbooks.blogspot.com/2025/04/robe...

Booknotes: Andrea Goldsmith, The Buried Life. An extraordinary novel. A microscopic examination of love, literature, religion and abuse. It's a must read and will inevitably win many Australian and international awards. notaboutbooks.blogspot.com/2025/04/andr...

Booknotes: Peter Beinart, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza. A superb and essential read. notaboutbooks.blogspot.com/2025/04/pete...

Booknotes: Omar El Akkad, American War. An extremely powerful condemnation of the warmongering character of America. notaboutbooks.blogspot.com/2025/04/omar...

Booknotes: Colum McCann, Twist. McCann tells big stories about big characters and Twist is no exception. notaboutbooks.blogspot.com/2025/03/colu...

Booknotes: Omar El Akkad: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. notaboutbooks.blogspot.com/2025/03/omar...

Booknotes: Diana Reid, Signs of Damage. In this, her third novel, Reid explores the legacies of broken families, abandoned children, and sexual abuse. She digs deep. notaboutbooks.blogspot.com/2025/03/dian...

Booknotes: Jeremy Cooper's Brian. A delightful story of a sad, lonely, middle-aged man who gets hooked on movies. notaboutbooks.blogspot.com/2025/03/jere...

Booknotes: Han Kang, We Do Not Part. Like Nobel Prize winning Han Kang's other novels this new one is a powerful whack in the gut. In today's war torn world it's an awakening. notaboutbooks.blogspot.com/2025/03/han-...

Booknotes: Pankaj Mishra's The World After Gaza. An absolutely incredible and enlightening examination of Israel, its history, and its wars over the decades. A classic. notaboutbooks.blogspot.com/2025/02/pank...

Clarifies the whole Syria situation so well.

I’ve read most of these. They’re so good and enlightening.