Read IN BED: Dinner with Edward
Part memoir, part biography; Dinner with Edward by Isabel Vincent explores the value of unexpected friendships struck up during challenging times.
Suyin Cavanagh reviews Trent Dalton's most recent piece of work, a series of short stories about love in its many different forms.
We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity.
Read IN BED: Where the Crawdads Sing
The beauty of this novel is perfectly captured by these opening words which continue to leave an imprint. “Marsh is not swamp. Marsh is space and l...
A book that’s good enough to read twice in a row… Hannah-Rose Yee reviews Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang.
Read IN BED: All Our Shimmering Skies
A tale where ‘sky gifts’ appear and fall to the earth in unexpected moments, and act as ancient symbols, echoing across space and time.
Read IN BED: If I Had Your Face
Suyin Cavanagh reflects on Frances Cha’s compelling new book ‘If I Had Your Face’.
Read IN BED: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
A close reading of Ocean Vuong’s compellingly raw novel; On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.
Read IN BED: Hera Lindsay Bird
Sam Somers dives into the heart-achingly unique world of poet Hera Lindsay Bird.
Read IN BED: Enviable Collections
From a thoughtfully stacked shelf in Sydney to a mini-library in Mexico we delve into the archives of the Journal to discover more about some of ou...
Read IN BED: Too Much and Not the Mood
Isn’t it fun to read a sentence that races ahead of itself?
Every now and then a book comes along that flaws you. You reach the end, close its cover, exhale, and then immediately want to read it again. Tin M...
Read IN BED: Books for Hibernation
Looking for a novel to isolate with? Here is our list of warm and cosy books that are sure to soothe.
Writer Hannah-Rose Yee reviews Candice Carty-Williams’ novel, Queenie.
Writer Hannah-Rose gives us her review of How To Fail by Elizabeth Day.
Writer Hannah-Rose Yee shares her thoughts on Ella Risbridger's Midnight Chicken.
Read IN BED: My Sister The Serial Killer
Writer Hannah-Rose Yee reviews Oyinkan Braithwaite novel, My Sister The Serial Killer.
Read IN BED: My Thoughts Exactly
A book review of Lily Allen's memoir by writer, Hannah-Rose Yee.
Read IN BED: Everything I Know About Love
A review of Dolly Alderton's book, Everything I Know About Love.
Hannah-Rose Yee muses on Normal People by Sally Rooney.
Summer Reading, with Hannah-Rose Yee
Words by Hannah-Rose Yee Images by Sam Riles I can't shake this idea stuck in some corner of my brain that summer is for reading a thick, door ...
Outside the water in the pool was green and the balconies were luxuriant as usual, draped in foliage, bright with geraniums, maybe also begonias.
Read IN BED: Dress Scandinavian by Pernille Teisbaek
Words by Hannah-Rose Yee "More than anything, our strength lies in being able to create a look that is timeless without being boring, where we use ...
Read IN BED: Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud
Word & Images by Hannah-Rose Yee “If you were born in 1991 you’ve never known a time when pregnancy wasn’t performed in public. 1991 was the y...
Read IN BED: Coming to my Senses by Alice Waters
Words by Hannah-Rose Yee It's when I take the ingredients home, unpack them from my basket, and spread them out on the table in my kitchen ___ that...
Words & Images by Hannah-Rose Yee “When I was eight years old my family moved out of a council estate and into what seemed to me a mansion. Fro...
Lullaby is a slim novel that you can tear through in a frenzied afternoon, with a roster of iced coffees by your side.
This book stays with you long after you read it. It has the air of dystopian fiction ___ anything with an experiment at the centre of its plot will...
"I have a moment of pure pleasure at being in Milan in the rush at a coffee bar, waiting for my macchiato. The baristas' performance, as they reach...
Read IN BED: Call Me By Your Name
Did you really go to the beach this summer if you didn't have Call Me By Your Name in your cotton string bag, alongside your Turkish towel and your...
Endless days spent diving into cool, sparkling water, eating what seems to be a never-ending bounty of seafood dinners supplemented sparkling elder...
"The rich do parties better than the rest of us. It's not just the money or the every catered-for whim or the superiority of the alcohol and food. ...
Rachel Khong is, or rather was, the editor of the sadly-closed food magazine Lucky Peach and this is her first novel. It is fantastically easy to r...
Review by Hannah-Rose Yee “Smoking is a reason to get up every morning. If I pass a smoker, I breathe deeply and for a second, life is better. I ...
Read IN BED: Party Girls Die In Pearls
Plum Sykes took a long vacation from writing and is back with the first in what is intended to be a new series: Party Girls Die In Pearls. It has a...
A whole book about oranges, I can hear you groan. Why would I want to read that? Because did you know that Florida produces more oranges than Italy...
This is one of my favourite books of all time: Love Nina, by Nina Stibbe. I read this almost three years ago in a hurry, devouring each page hungri...
The gruesome killings; an unhinged and enigmatic leader; innocence lost -- after nearly half a century, the details of the Manson Family murders st...
Read IN BED: The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Words & Images by Jess Kneebone Say hello to a new sock drawer. In this book, Marie Kondo challenges everything you currently know about stora...
Words & Images by Hannah-Rose Yee “Imagine this scene, roughly a decade ago: Victor standing, intoxicated, outside her [bedroom] window, afte...
Words & Images by Hannah-Rose Yee "The kettle boils and Esme makes herself a cup of milky tea, then retreats back into bed with the mug and her...
Read IN BED: Tales From The Back Row
Words & Images by Hannah-Rose Yee "People in the front row dress spectacularly in clothes that cost more than most mortgages. They text regular...
Words & Images by Hannah-Rose Yee "Eilis loved her room, loved putting her books at the table opposite the window when she came in at night and...
Words & Images by Hannah-Rose Yee “Sunday morning had a melancholy air, like the last day of a wonderful holiday, and we stepped out to the c...
Read IN BED: Paris To The Moon
If you love Paris: read this book. If you love New York: read this book. If you love travel: read this book. If you love non fiction that feels lik...
Read IN BED: The Paying Guests
Words & Images by Hannah-Rose Yee “She had the tricked, trapped feeling she’d sometimes had with men in the past, the sense that, through no ...
Words & Images by Hannah-Rose Yee “After those seven years immersed in women’s fashion magazines, I still dress as I always have – in used me...
Read IN BED: The Breakfast Bible
Words & Images by Hannah-Rose Yee On breakfast in bed: “Enjoy the moment. Eat with gusto. Pretend you are in a hotel. Remember the adage ‘danc...