Our Team

Stephen Romei writes on books and films. He was formerly literary editor at The Australian and The Weekend Australian.

His name said it all: Bonecrusher. The champion New Zealand thoroughbred who raced into “equine immortality” died yesterday.

One of the pleasures of the recent Sydney Writers Festival was meeting English novelist and screenwriter Anthony Horowitz.

A PAIR OF RAGGED CLAWS: STEPHEN ROMEI

Why make a feature film of a moderately successful TV series? Because someone asked you to, and handed over $US30m.

A Nobel laureate and a psychologist exchange letters to examine the way our lives are portrayed in novels.

David Free

I had one of my more satisfying reading experiences of recent times last weekend when I picked up a crime novel.

A PAIR OF RAGGED CLAWS: STEPHEN ROMEI

The final book in Roy Williams’s evangelical mission to make Christianity more appealing is the best in his trilogy.

Gerard Windsor

Erik Larson paints a vivid picture of the ship on its last voyage and some of its passengers.

Eileen Chanin

Something Special, Something Rare is an fine anthology of short fiction from female writers.

Emily Laidlaw

Jeanette Winterson describes it as demanding, but Djuna Barnes’s 1936 novel Nightwood is a classic of queer literature.

Ronnie Scott

Murray Middleton’s short story collection, which won The Australian-Vogel’s Literary Award, is harrowing and beautiful.

James McNamara