Read IN BED: Dinner with Edward

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.

Read IN BED: Love Stories

Read IN BED: Love Stories

Suyin Cavanagh reviews Trent Dalton's most recent piece of work, a series of short stories about love in its many different forms.

Read IN BED: The Alchemist

Read IN BED: The Alchemist

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

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...

Read IN BED: Sour Heart

Read IN BED: Sour Heart

A book that’s good enough to read twice in a row… Hannah-Rose Yee reviews Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang.

Read IN BED: Enviable Collections

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: Tin Man

Read IN BED: Tin Man

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...

Summer Reading, with Hannah-Rose Yee

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 ...

Read IN BED: Crudo

Read IN BED: Crudo

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: Feel Free

Read IN BED: Feel Free

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...

Read IN BED: Lullaby

Read IN BED: Lullaby

Lullaby is a slim novel that you can tear through in a frenzied afternoon, with a roster of iced coffees by your side.

Read IN BED: The Answers

Read IN BED: The Answers

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...

Read IN BED: Inside Vogue

Read IN BED: Inside Vogue

"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

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...

Read IN BED: Island Summers

Read IN BED: Island Summers

Endless days spent diving into cool, sparkling water, eating what seems to be a never-ending bounty of seafood dinners supplemented sparkling elder...

Read IN BED: The Party

Read IN BED: The Party

"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. ...

Read IN BED: Goodbye Vitamin

Read IN BED: Goodbye Vitamin

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...

Read IN BED: Siracusa

Read IN BED: Siracusa

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: Oranges

Read IN BED: Oranges

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...

Read IN BED: Love, Nina

Read IN BED: Love, Nina

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...

Read IN BED: The Girls

Read IN BED: The Girls

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 Clasp

Read IN BED: The Clasp

Words & Images by Hannah-Rose Yee “Imagine this scene, roughly a decade ago: Victor standing, intoxicated, outside her [bedroom] window, afte...

Read IN BED: Paradise City

Read IN BED: Paradise City

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

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...

Read IN BED: Brooklyn

Read IN BED: Brooklyn

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...

Read IN BED: Us

Read IN BED: Us

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

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

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 ...

Read IN BED: Women In Clothes

Read IN BED: Women In Clothes

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

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...