Jessie Tu
Jessie Tu is the author of the novel A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing. She is a journalist at Women's Agenda and a book critic for the SMH and The Age.
The nanny and the billionaire – steamy, and that’s not the ironing
Lauren Asher follows two wounded souls who make beautiful music – together.
- by Jessie Tu
Latest
Why do women fall for violent men in jail? This novel has an idea
Tasha Coryell’s main character is a young woman who writes increasingly intimate letters to a man facing charges of murdering several women.
- by Jessie Tu
This First Nations futurist novel features seamless world building
Ambelin Kwaymullina’s new novel blends fantasy, sci-fi, thriller and First Nations folklore to bring readers into a world of corruption and deceit.
- by Jessie Tu
Like Jane Austen with Asian people: Kevin Kwan’s new novel
The author of Crazy Rich Asians returns with another outrageous comedy of manners, family and money. So much money.
- by Jessie Tu
The singular adult fantasy that is a Marian Keyes novel
The Irish writer brings one of the Walsh sisters back to Ireland after heartbreak in New York.
- by Jessie Tu
Dramatic novel asks pertinent questions about mental health treatment
Anne Buist’s experience as a perinatal psychiatrist informs the novel she has written with Graeme Simsion.
- by Jessie Tu
A sublime novel of female bravery and friendship in the heat of war
Kristin Hannah’s latest novel tells the story of a young woman who signs up to go to Vietnam.
- by Jessie Tu
A postcard of love from Imbi Neeme’s two heart-warming characters
At the heart of this novel is the mystery of who sent a series of amorous postcards and to whom.
- by Jessie Tu
The pain of loss crafted into the angst of adolescence
Sarah Sasson’s first novel is narrated by a girl whose world is going to change irrevocably.
- by Jessie Tu
Manderley never looked like this: An ode to Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca
Jillian Cantor’s new novel is an engrossing riff on a classic novel.
- by Jessie Tu
Opinion
Cinema
Cinema’s great wives club: the role of women in the male biopic
It’s been a season of biopics of men – building things, going to war, writing music - each with a wife to help us understand her husband’s full complexity.
- by Jessie Tu
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