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The Bird Way: a new look at how birds talk, work, play, parent, and think by Jennifer Ackerman
[A]n exploration of ‘surprising and sometimes alarming behaviour’ of everyday avian activity … Extreme behaviour reveals insights and new perspectives on birds' adaptation abilities and flexibility of mind. Ackerman is a smooth writer; her presentation of ideas is deft, and her anecdotes are consistently engaging … Ackerman demonstrates bird science as an evolving discipline that is consistently fascinating, and she offers brilliant discussions of the use of smell, long overlooked but indeed deployed for navigation; courtship signals; predator avoidance, and, not surprisingly, locating food … A brightly original book sure to please any nature lover. STARRED REVIEW
Kirkus Reviews
A wonderful read. Every page will increase your awe of birds.
Tim Low
The complex behaviour of birds recounted here demonstrates that birds have sophisticated mental abilities previously unrecognised by conventional avian research. Ackerman supports her thesis with descriptions of the behaviour of an entertaining variety of birds from across the world. She brings scientific research alive with personal field observations and accounts of her encounters with colourful and fascinating birds. Throughout, Ackerman reminds readers that birds are thinking beings — their brains are wired differently than those of mammals, giving them increased brain power despite their small size. She further makes the case that bird intelligence shows that humankind is not alone in using language and tools or constructing complex structures and manipulating other creatures … This work will engage all readers interested in learning more about birds and natural history. STARRED REVIEW
Mark Jones, Library Journal
Her research shows how some avian actions indicate ingenious adaptations … Ackerman’s vibrant writing ensures that all things bird are thoroughly compelling and enjoyable. STARRED REVIEW
Nancy Bent, Booklist
In The Bird Way, Jennifer Ackerman digs deeper and ranges farther into bird behaviour, pulling tasty stories out of rich ground as she hops across the continents … Like a bowerbird, Ms. Ackerman gathers and displays treasures to amaze and delight — then lets the scientists’ stories take centre stage … Refreshingly, Ackerman spotlights a number of female researchers.
Wall Street Journal
After reading Ackerman (The Genius of Birds), you may listen harder to the various chirps, cheeps and coos coming from your backyard. Her new book reminds us that we have a lot in common with birds — like us, they are capable of deception and manipulation, not to mention cooperation, culture and communication.
The Washington Post
From tales of dazzling plumage to anecdotes about almost unfathomable mimicry, Jennifer Ackerman’s The Bird Way is a walk through the mysteries, wonders, and peculiarities of the avian world ... Ackerman’s excitement and love for it are evident in her writing. Her superb storytelling paints a rich picture that engages the reader’s imagination, making sometimes-hard-to-grasp research accessible.
Science Magazine
The Bird Way builds on her previous volume The Genius of Birds (2016), already considered a classic … The real joy of her book is its close attention to some of the specialists of the region, including a large group of nectar-loving birds, the honeyeaters.
Mark Cocker, Spectator Australia
A fresh account of the world of birds, written to showcase the many marvels revealed by modern tracking and recording techniques … Ackerman’s account is often jaw-dropping, and never more shocking than when she assembles the evidence for the cultural sophistication of birdsong.
Simon Ings, New Scientist
[O]ur understanding of bird behaviour is undergoing a revolution, and nearly every page of this often lyrical and sometimes funny book contains some fresh wonder … [S]plendid and spellbinding … The Bird Way shows us a new way to view birds, yes — but perhaps even better, through their eyes, intellect, and more-than-human senses, it lets birds reveal to us the hidden realities of our shared world.
Sy Montgomery, The American Scholar
[The Bird Way] upends the traditional view of how birds conduct their lives with fascinating insights into communication between species, their co-operation, collaboration, altruism, culture and play.
The Courier Mail
Fascinating.
The Senior
[A] thrilling book.
Helen Elliott, The Australian
[The Bird Way] makes for interesting reading.
Goulburn Post
Eye-opening … Birds are more intelligent, strategic, manipulative, playful, collaborative and creative than they have been given credit for. Like a morning chorus, The Bird Way gives voice to a bird’s view of the world.
Fiona Capp, The Age
Fascinating and engrossing.
WIRES Wildlife Rescue
The Bird Way is a fascinating and thorough exploration of the lives of what are surely the most beautiful creatures on Earth. Throughout the book, Jennifer Ackerman provides a wealth of facts and introduces us to many recent developments in the study of these animals … Those who break out binoculars on a regular basis will obviously be fascinated by this book, but so will anyone interested in questions of language, cognition, culture and intelligence.
Penelope Cottier, The Canberra Times
Jennifer Ackerman presents a gee-whiz compendium of bird behaviour, from parrots to penguins … Ackerman’s readable stories will make you rethink who we share the Earth with. FOUR STARS
SA Weekend
Kirkus Reviews
A wonderful read. Every page will increase your awe of birds.
Tim Low
The complex behaviour of birds recounted here demonstrates that birds have sophisticated mental abilities previously unrecognised by conventional avian research. Ackerman supports her thesis with descriptions of the behaviour of an entertaining variety of birds from across the world. She brings scientific research alive with personal field observations and accounts of her encounters with colourful and fascinating birds. Throughout, Ackerman reminds readers that birds are thinking beings — their brains are wired differently than those of mammals, giving them increased brain power despite their small size. She further makes the case that bird intelligence shows that humankind is not alone in using language and tools or constructing complex structures and manipulating other creatures … This work will engage all readers interested in learning more about birds and natural history. STARRED REVIEW
Mark Jones, Library Journal
Her research shows how some avian actions indicate ingenious adaptations … Ackerman’s vibrant writing ensures that all things bird are thoroughly compelling and enjoyable. STARRED REVIEW
Nancy Bent, Booklist
In The Bird Way, Jennifer Ackerman digs deeper and ranges farther into bird behaviour, pulling tasty stories out of rich ground as she hops across the continents … Like a bowerbird, Ms. Ackerman gathers and displays treasures to amaze and delight — then lets the scientists’ stories take centre stage … Refreshingly, Ackerman spotlights a number of female researchers.
Wall Street Journal
After reading Ackerman (The Genius of Birds), you may listen harder to the various chirps, cheeps and coos coming from your backyard. Her new book reminds us that we have a lot in common with birds — like us, they are capable of deception and manipulation, not to mention cooperation, culture and communication.
The Washington Post
From tales of dazzling plumage to anecdotes about almost unfathomable mimicry, Jennifer Ackerman’s The Bird Way is a walk through the mysteries, wonders, and peculiarities of the avian world ... Ackerman’s excitement and love for it are evident in her writing. Her superb storytelling paints a rich picture that engages the reader’s imagination, making sometimes-hard-to-grasp research accessible.
Science Magazine
The Bird Way builds on her previous volume The Genius of Birds (2016), already considered a classic … The real joy of her book is its close attention to some of the specialists of the region, including a large group of nectar-loving birds, the honeyeaters.
Mark Cocker, Spectator Australia
A fresh account of the world of birds, written to showcase the many marvels revealed by modern tracking and recording techniques … Ackerman’s account is often jaw-dropping, and never more shocking than when she assembles the evidence for the cultural sophistication of birdsong.
Simon Ings, New Scientist
[O]ur understanding of bird behaviour is undergoing a revolution, and nearly every page of this often lyrical and sometimes funny book contains some fresh wonder … [S]plendid and spellbinding … The Bird Way shows us a new way to view birds, yes — but perhaps even better, through their eyes, intellect, and more-than-human senses, it lets birds reveal to us the hidden realities of our shared world.
Sy Montgomery, The American Scholar
[The Bird Way] upends the traditional view of how birds conduct their lives with fascinating insights into communication between species, their co-operation, collaboration, altruism, culture and play.
The Courier Mail
Fascinating.
The Senior
[A] thrilling book.
Helen Elliott, The Australian
[The Bird Way] makes for interesting reading.
Goulburn Post
Eye-opening … Birds are more intelligent, strategic, manipulative, playful, collaborative and creative than they have been given credit for. Like a morning chorus, The Bird Way gives voice to a bird’s view of the world.
Fiona Capp, The Age
Fascinating and engrossing.
WIRES Wildlife Rescue
The Bird Way is a fascinating and thorough exploration of the lives of what are surely the most beautiful creatures on Earth. Throughout the book, Jennifer Ackerman provides a wealth of facts and introduces us to many recent developments in the study of these animals … Those who break out binoculars on a regular basis will obviously be fascinated by this book, but so will anyone interested in questions of language, cognition, culture and intelligence.
Penelope Cottier, The Canberra Times
Jennifer Ackerman presents a gee-whiz compendium of bird behaviour, from parrots to penguins … Ackerman’s readable stories will make you rethink who we share the Earth with. FOUR STARS
SA Weekend
The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code: the extraordinary life of Dr Claire Weekes by Judith Hoare
It’s truly astonishing that Dr Claire Weekes is not a household name … this book shines a light on her considerable achievements with great respect and meticulous detail.
Leigh Sales
By thinking outside the box, and exercising extraordinary clinical sensitivity, the brilliant physician Claire Weekes created a treatment protocol to the unending benefit of tens of millions of patients over the years.
Dr David Barlow, professor emeritus of psychology and psychiatry at Boston University
Australian doctor Claire Weekes found worldwide fame with her bestselling books on ‘nervous illness’ in the 1960s and 1970s — but despite gratitude from thousands of sufferers, she is almost forgotten today. This revelatory biography should change that … Journalist Judith Hoare has comprehensively captured the unconventional life of this brilliant woman who was lauded for her evolutionary studies. FOUR STARS
Julia Taylor, Books + Publishing
A vivid portrait of an intriguing woman ahead of her time, this is a story of hope, empowerment, and vindication.
Gina Perry, author of Behind the Shock Machine and The Lost Boys
An intimate portrait ... Contributions of this kind — high in influence but low in prestige, because “popular” — are often overlooked. In this fine book, Hoare has rescued the legacy of a great Australian from that fate.
Nick Haslam, Inside Story
A fascinating tale about a trailblazer who helped millions face their fears.
Fiona Capp, Sydney Morning Herald
Hoare charts Dr Weekes’ professional achievements, which happened almost in spite of her lack of business acumen and a difficult private life. FOUR STARS
Robyn Douglass, SA Weekend
Don’t miss this biography, especially if you have been helped, as I was, by this wonderful woman. It is very detailed but well worth a read. FOUR STARS
Merle Morcom, Good Reading
With Judith Hoare’s The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code, we have a chance to learn about Weekes’s varied life and, as important, become reacquainted with her work … A splendid tribute to Claire Weekes — a tribute long overdue.
Sally Satel, Wall Street Journal
In her biography of Weekes, veteran journalist Judith Hoare has rescued the Australian doctor from obscurity and placed her squarely in the history of the diagnosis and treatment of anxiety disorders … Displaying the hallmarks of an accomplished journalist, this is a fascinating biography of a free-spirited and innovative woman, an insight into the history of evolutionary and psychiatric theories, and an introduction to Weekes’s methods and her books.
Carol Middleton, Australian Book Review
Journalist Hoare chronicles Weekes's life, from an early career in zoology to an attempt at singing professionally to becoming a doctor at age 42 … This biography restores Weekes’s often overlooked contributions to anxiety treatment.
Andrea Thompson, Scientific American ‘Recommended Books’
Leigh Sales
By thinking outside the box, and exercising extraordinary clinical sensitivity, the brilliant physician Claire Weekes created a treatment protocol to the unending benefit of tens of millions of patients over the years.
Dr David Barlow, professor emeritus of psychology and psychiatry at Boston University
Australian doctor Claire Weekes found worldwide fame with her bestselling books on ‘nervous illness’ in the 1960s and 1970s — but despite gratitude from thousands of sufferers, she is almost forgotten today. This revelatory biography should change that … Journalist Judith Hoare has comprehensively captured the unconventional life of this brilliant woman who was lauded for her evolutionary studies. FOUR STARS
Julia Taylor, Books + Publishing
A vivid portrait of an intriguing woman ahead of her time, this is a story of hope, empowerment, and vindication.
Gina Perry, author of Behind the Shock Machine and The Lost Boys
An intimate portrait ... Contributions of this kind — high in influence but low in prestige, because “popular” — are often overlooked. In this fine book, Hoare has rescued the legacy of a great Australian from that fate.
Nick Haslam, Inside Story
A fascinating tale about a trailblazer who helped millions face their fears.
Fiona Capp, Sydney Morning Herald
Hoare charts Dr Weekes’ professional achievements, which happened almost in spite of her lack of business acumen and a difficult private life. FOUR STARS
Robyn Douglass, SA Weekend
Don’t miss this biography, especially if you have been helped, as I was, by this wonderful woman. It is very detailed but well worth a read. FOUR STARS
Merle Morcom, Good Reading
With Judith Hoare’s The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code, we have a chance to learn about Weekes’s varied life and, as important, become reacquainted with her work … A splendid tribute to Claire Weekes — a tribute long overdue.
Sally Satel, Wall Street Journal
In her biography of Weekes, veteran journalist Judith Hoare has rescued the Australian doctor from obscurity and placed her squarely in the history of the diagnosis and treatment of anxiety disorders … Displaying the hallmarks of an accomplished journalist, this is a fascinating biography of a free-spirited and innovative woman, an insight into the history of evolutionary and psychiatric theories, and an introduction to Weekes’s methods and her books.
Carol Middleton, Australian Book Review
Journalist Hoare chronicles Weekes's life, from an early career in zoology to an attempt at singing professionally to becoming a doctor at age 42 … This biography restores Weekes’s often overlooked contributions to anxiety treatment.
Andrea Thompson, Scientific American ‘Recommended Books’
The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code: the extraordinary life of Dr Claire Weekes by Judith Hoare
It’s truly astonishing that Dr Claire Weekes is not a household name … this book shines a light on her considerable achievements with great respect and meticulous detail.
Leigh Sales
By thinking outside the box, and exercising extraordinary clinical sensitivity, the brilliant physician Claire Weekes created a treatment protocol to the unending benefit of tens of millions of patients over the years.
Dr David Barlow, professor emeritus of psychology and psychiatry at Boston University
Australian doctor Claire Weekes found worldwide fame with her bestselling books on ‘nervous illness’ in the 1960s and 1970s — but despite gratitude from thousands of sufferers, she is almost forgotten today. This revelatory biography should change that … Journalist Judith Hoare has comprehensively captured the unconventional life of this brilliant woman who was lauded for her evolutionary studies. FOUR STARS
Julia Taylor, Books + Publishing
A vivid portrait of an intriguing woman ahead of her time, this is a story of hope, empowerment, and vindication.
Gina Perry, author of Behind the Shock Machine and The Lost Boys
An intimate portrait ... Contributions of this kind — high in influence but low in prestige, because “popular” — are often overlooked. In this fine book, Hoare has rescued the legacy of a great Australian from that fate.
Nick Haslam, Inside Story
A fascinating tale about a trailblazer who helped millions face their fears.
Fiona Capp, Sydney Morning Herald
Hoare charts Dr Weekes’ professional achievements, which happened almost in spite of her lack of business acumen and a difficult private life. FOUR STARS
Robyn Douglass, SA Weekend
Don’t miss this biography, especially if you have been helped, as I was, by this wonderful woman. It is very detailed but well worth a read. FOUR STARS
Merle Morcom, Good Reading
With Judith Hoare’s The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code, we have a chance to learn about Weekes’s varied life and, as important, become reacquainted with her work … A splendid tribute to Claire Weekes — a tribute long overdue.
Sally Satel, Wall Street Journal
In her biography of Weekes, veteran journalist Judith Hoare has rescued the Australian doctor from obscurity and placed her squarely in the history of the diagnosis and treatment of anxiety disorders … Displaying the hallmarks of an accomplished journalist, this is a fascinating biography of a free-spirited and innovative woman, an insight into the history of evolutionary and psychiatric theories, and an introduction to Weekes’s methods and her books.
Carol Middleton, Australian Book Review
Journalist Hoare chronicles Weekes's life, from an early career in zoology to an attempt at singing professionally to becoming a doctor at age 42 … This biography restores Weekes’s often overlooked contributions to anxiety treatment.
Andrea Thompson, Scientific American ‘Recommended Books’
Leigh Sales
By thinking outside the box, and exercising extraordinary clinical sensitivity, the brilliant physician Claire Weekes created a treatment protocol to the unending benefit of tens of millions of patients over the years.
Dr David Barlow, professor emeritus of psychology and psychiatry at Boston University
Australian doctor Claire Weekes found worldwide fame with her bestselling books on ‘nervous illness’ in the 1960s and 1970s — but despite gratitude from thousands of sufferers, she is almost forgotten today. This revelatory biography should change that … Journalist Judith Hoare has comprehensively captured the unconventional life of this brilliant woman who was lauded for her evolutionary studies. FOUR STARS
Julia Taylor, Books + Publishing
A vivid portrait of an intriguing woman ahead of her time, this is a story of hope, empowerment, and vindication.
Gina Perry, author of Behind the Shock Machine and The Lost Boys
An intimate portrait ... Contributions of this kind — high in influence but low in prestige, because “popular” — are often overlooked. In this fine book, Hoare has rescued the legacy of a great Australian from that fate.
Nick Haslam, Inside Story
A fascinating tale about a trailblazer who helped millions face their fears.
Fiona Capp, Sydney Morning Herald
Hoare charts Dr Weekes’ professional achievements, which happened almost in spite of her lack of business acumen and a difficult private life. FOUR STARS
Robyn Douglass, SA Weekend
Don’t miss this biography, especially if you have been helped, as I was, by this wonderful woman. It is very detailed but well worth a read. FOUR STARS
Merle Morcom, Good Reading
With Judith Hoare’s The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code, we have a chance to learn about Weekes’s varied life and, as important, become reacquainted with her work … A splendid tribute to Claire Weekes — a tribute long overdue.
Sally Satel, Wall Street Journal
In her biography of Weekes, veteran journalist Judith Hoare has rescued the Australian doctor from obscurity and placed her squarely in the history of the diagnosis and treatment of anxiety disorders … Displaying the hallmarks of an accomplished journalist, this is a fascinating biography of a free-spirited and innovative woman, an insight into the history of evolutionary and psychiatric theories, and an introduction to Weekes’s methods and her books.
Carol Middleton, Australian Book Review
Journalist Hoare chronicles Weekes's life, from an early career in zoology to an attempt at singing professionally to becoming a doctor at age 42 … This biography restores Weekes’s often overlooked contributions to anxiety treatment.
Andrea Thompson, Scientific American ‘Recommended Books’
The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code: The Extraordinary Life of Dr Claire Weekes by Judith Hoare
It’s truly astonishing that Dr Claire Weekes is not a household name … this book shines a light on her considerable achievements with great respect and meticulous detail.
Leigh Sales
By thinking outside the box, and exercising extraordinary clinical sensitivity, the brilliant physician Claire Weekes created a treatment protocol to the unending benefit of tens of millions of patients over the years.
Dr David Barlow, professor emeritus of psychology and psychiatry at Boston University
Australian doctor Claire Weekes found worldwide fame with her bestselling books on ‘nervous illness’ in the 1960s and 1970s — but despite gratitude from thousands of sufferers, she is almost forgotten today. This revelatory biography should change that … Journalist Judith Hoare has comprehensively captured the unconventional life of this brilliant woman who was lauded for her evolutionary studies. FOUR STARS
Julia Taylor, Books + Publishing
A vivid portrait of an intriguing woman ahead of her time, this is a story of hope, empowerment, and vindication.
Gina Perry, author of Behind the Shock Machine and The Lost Boys
An intimate portrait ... Contributions of this kind — high in influence but low in prestige, because “popular” — are often overlooked. In this fine book, Hoare has rescued the legacy of a great Australian from that fate.
Nick Haslam, Inside Story
A fascinating tale about a trailblazer who helped millions face their fears.
Fiona Capp, Sydney Morning Herald
Hoare charts Dr Weekes’ professional achievements, which happened almost in spite of her lack of business acumen and a difficult private life. FOUR STARS
Robyn Douglass, SA Weekend
Don’t miss this biography, especially if you have been helped, as I was, by this wonderful woman. It is very detailed but well worth a read. FOUR STARS
Merle Morcom, Good Reading
With Judith Hoare’s The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code, we have a chance to learn about Weekes’s varied life and, as important, become reacquainted with her work … A splendid tribute to Claire Weekes — a tribute long overdue.
Sally Satel, Wall Street Journal
In her biography of Weekes, veteran journalist Judith Hoare has rescued the Australian doctor from obscurity and placed her squarely in the history of the diagnosis and treatment of anxiety disorders … Displaying the hallmarks of an accomplished journalist, this is a fascinating biography of a free-spirited and innovative woman, an insight into the history of evolutionary and psychiatric theories, and an introduction to Weekes’s methods and her books.
Carol Middleton, Australian Book Review
Journalist Hoare chronicles Weekes's life, from an early career in zoology to an attempt at singing professionally to becoming a doctor at age 42 … This biography restores Weekes’s often overlooked contributions to anxiety treatment.
Andrea Thompson, Scientific American ‘Recommended Books’
Leigh Sales
By thinking outside the box, and exercising extraordinary clinical sensitivity, the brilliant physician Claire Weekes created a treatment protocol to the unending benefit of tens of millions of patients over the years.
Dr David Barlow, professor emeritus of psychology and psychiatry at Boston University
Australian doctor Claire Weekes found worldwide fame with her bestselling books on ‘nervous illness’ in the 1960s and 1970s — but despite gratitude from thousands of sufferers, she is almost forgotten today. This revelatory biography should change that … Journalist Judith Hoare has comprehensively captured the unconventional life of this brilliant woman who was lauded for her evolutionary studies. FOUR STARS
Julia Taylor, Books + Publishing
A vivid portrait of an intriguing woman ahead of her time, this is a story of hope, empowerment, and vindication.
Gina Perry, author of Behind the Shock Machine and The Lost Boys
An intimate portrait ... Contributions of this kind — high in influence but low in prestige, because “popular” — are often overlooked. In this fine book, Hoare has rescued the legacy of a great Australian from that fate.
Nick Haslam, Inside Story
A fascinating tale about a trailblazer who helped millions face their fears.
Fiona Capp, Sydney Morning Herald
Hoare charts Dr Weekes’ professional achievements, which happened almost in spite of her lack of business acumen and a difficult private life. FOUR STARS
Robyn Douglass, SA Weekend
Don’t miss this biography, especially if you have been helped, as I was, by this wonderful woman. It is very detailed but well worth a read. FOUR STARS
Merle Morcom, Good Reading
With Judith Hoare’s The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code, we have a chance to learn about Weekes’s varied life and, as important, become reacquainted with her work … A splendid tribute to Claire Weekes — a tribute long overdue.
Sally Satel, Wall Street Journal
In her biography of Weekes, veteran journalist Judith Hoare has rescued the Australian doctor from obscurity and placed her squarely in the history of the diagnosis and treatment of anxiety disorders … Displaying the hallmarks of an accomplished journalist, this is a fascinating biography of a free-spirited and innovative woman, an insight into the history of evolutionary and psychiatric theories, and an introduction to Weekes’s methods and her books.
Carol Middleton, Australian Book Review
Journalist Hoare chronicles Weekes's life, from an early career in zoology to an attempt at singing professionally to becoming a doctor at age 42 … This biography restores Weekes’s often overlooked contributions to anxiety treatment.
Andrea Thompson, Scientific American ‘Recommended Books’
The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code: the extraordinary life of Dr Claire Weekes by Judith Hoare
It’s truly astonishing that Dr Claire Weekes is not a household name … this book shines a light on her considerable achievements with great respect and meticulous detail.
Leigh Sales
By thinking outside the box, and exercising extraordinary clinical sensitivity, the brilliant physician Claire Weekes created a treatment protocol to the unending benefit of tens of millions of patients over the years.
Dr David Barlow, professor emeritus of psychology and psychiatry at Boston University
Australian doctor Claire Weekes found worldwide fame with her bestselling books on ‘nervous illness’ in the 1960s and 1970s — but despite gratitude from thousands of sufferers, she is almost forgotten today. This revelatory biography should change that … Journalist Judith Hoare has comprehensively captured the unconventional life of this brilliant woman who was lauded for her evolutionary studies. FOUR STARS
Julia Taylor, Books + Publishing
A vivid portrait of an intriguing woman ahead of her time, this is a story of hope, empowerment, and vindication.
Gina Perry, author of Behind the Shock Machine and The Lost Boys
An intimate portrait ... Contributions of this kind — high in influence but low in prestige, because “popular” — are often overlooked. In this fine book, Hoare has rescued the legacy of a great Australian from that fate.
Nick Haslam, Inside Story
A fascinating tale about a trailblazer who helped millions face their fears.
Fiona Capp, Sydney Morning Herald
Hoare charts Dr Weekes’ professional achievements, which happened almost in spite of her lack of business acumen and a difficult private life. FOUR STARS
Robyn Douglass, SA Weekend
Don’t miss this biography, especially if you have been helped, as I was, by this wonderful woman. It is very detailed but well worth a read. FOUR STARS
Merle Morcom, Good Reading
With Judith Hoare’s The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code, we have a chance to learn about Weekes’s varied life and, as important, become reacquainted with her work … A splendid tribute to Claire Weekes — a tribute long overdue.
Sally Satel, Wall Street Journal
In her biography of Weekes, veteran journalist Judith Hoare has rescued the Australian doctor from obscurity and placed her squarely in the history of the diagnosis and treatment of anxiety disorders … Displaying the hallmarks of an accomplished journalist, this is a fascinating biography of a free-spirited and innovative woman, an insight into the history of evolutionary and psychiatric theories, and an introduction to Weekes’s methods and her books.
Carol Middleton, Australian Book Review
Journalist Hoare chronicles Weekes's life, from an early career in zoology to an attempt at singing professionally to becoming a doctor at age 42 … This biography restores Weekes’s often overlooked contributions to anxiety treatment.
Andrea Thompson, Scientific American ‘Recommended Books’
Leigh Sales
By thinking outside the box, and exercising extraordinary clinical sensitivity, the brilliant physician Claire Weekes created a treatment protocol to the unending benefit of tens of millions of patients over the years.
Dr David Barlow, professor emeritus of psychology and psychiatry at Boston University
Australian doctor Claire Weekes found worldwide fame with her bestselling books on ‘nervous illness’ in the 1960s and 1970s — but despite gratitude from thousands of sufferers, she is almost forgotten today. This revelatory biography should change that … Journalist Judith Hoare has comprehensively captured the unconventional life of this brilliant woman who was lauded for her evolutionary studies. FOUR STARS
Julia Taylor, Books + Publishing
A vivid portrait of an intriguing woman ahead of her time, this is a story of hope, empowerment, and vindication.
Gina Perry, author of Behind the Shock Machine and The Lost Boys
An intimate portrait ... Contributions of this kind — high in influence but low in prestige, because “popular” — are often overlooked. In this fine book, Hoare has rescued the legacy of a great Australian from that fate.
Nick Haslam, Inside Story
A fascinating tale about a trailblazer who helped millions face their fears.
Fiona Capp, Sydney Morning Herald
Hoare charts Dr Weekes’ professional achievements, which happened almost in spite of her lack of business acumen and a difficult private life. FOUR STARS
Robyn Douglass, SA Weekend
Don’t miss this biography, especially if you have been helped, as I was, by this wonderful woman. It is very detailed but well worth a read. FOUR STARS
Merle Morcom, Good Reading
With Judith Hoare’s The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code, we have a chance to learn about Weekes’s varied life and, as important, become reacquainted with her work … A splendid tribute to Claire Weekes — a tribute long overdue.
Sally Satel, Wall Street Journal
In her biography of Weekes, veteran journalist Judith Hoare has rescued the Australian doctor from obscurity and placed her squarely in the history of the diagnosis and treatment of anxiety disorders … Displaying the hallmarks of an accomplished journalist, this is a fascinating biography of a free-spirited and innovative woman, an insight into the history of evolutionary and psychiatric theories, and an introduction to Weekes’s methods and her books.
Carol Middleton, Australian Book Review
Journalist Hoare chronicles Weekes's life, from an early career in zoology to an attempt at singing professionally to becoming a doctor at age 42 … This biography restores Weekes’s often overlooked contributions to anxiety treatment.
Andrea Thompson, Scientific American ‘Recommended Books’
Greenwood by Michael Christie
This book is why we read books. Why we need books. Wildly inventive, structurally elegant, deeply felt, and so very wise. Greenwood is Michael Christie’s best work ever, and that’s saying something.
Alexander MacLeod, author of Light Lifting
Greenwood is brilliant. Michael Christie shows a cross section of one family's history, revealing their dark secrets, loves, losses, and the mark of an accident still visible four generations later. Year by year, page by page, the layers of this intricate and elegant novel build into an epic story that is completely absorbing. I had to cancel everything for this book because I couldn't stop reading.
Claire Camerson, author of The Last Neanderthal
[An] eerily real-feeling future.
Globe and Mail
Rich with evocative descriptions of West Coast wilderness and anchored by a deep visceral bond to the trees that sustain us all, Greenwood is a literary page-turner that manages to be both nostalgic and modern, personal and political, intimately human and big-picture historical. In an era of so much uncertainty, it is comforting to see novelists begin to work through the biggest issue of our age. And, in this case, convert our collective suffering into brilliant, beauty-filled art.
Toronto Star
[S]tructured like the growth rings of a tree, spanning generation ... [Greenwood] looks at families, love and secrets against the backdrop of the 'magic' of trees.
CBC News
Ingeniously structured and with prose as smooth as beech bark, Michael Christie’s Greenwood is as compulsive as it is profound. A sweeping intergenerational saga that explores trees and their roots, from the precious evergreens that become commodities in the entertainment business of the future, to the intricately tangled trees of family — all of it is dazzlingly delivered in a framework inspired by the actual growth rings of a tree. Every one of Greenwood’s characters burrowed their way into my heart. Beguilingly brilliant, timely, and utterly engrossing, Greenwood is one of my favourite reads in recent memory.
Kira Jane Buxton, author of Hollow Kingdom
At once hypnotic and raging, dangerously real and brimming with hope, Greenwood is that most necessary epic that binds our human frailties to our planet's possibilities. Michael Christie tenderly rakes the past and paints a future without flinching. I read this book with my heart in my throat, in my hands, in my gut; I read this book heart-full.
Katy Simpson Smith, author of The Story of Land and Sea
Greenwood is a family story, fractured and often contradictory (as the best family stories usually are ... bring[ing] together the intimate and the sweeping, the human world and the natural, the past and the future.
Quill & Quire
Ingeniously structured and with prose as smooth as beech bark, Michael Christie’s Greenwood is as compulsive as it is profound. A sweeping intergenerational saga that explores trees and their roots — from the precious evergreens that become commodities in the entertainment business of the future to the intricately tangled trees of family — all of it is dazzlingly delivered in a framework inspired by the actual growth rings of a tree. Every one of Greenwood’s characters burrowed their way into my heart. Beguilingly brilliant, timely, and utterly engrossing, Greenwood is one of my favorite reads in recent memory.
Kira Jane Buxton
Greenwood is a sprawling and ambitious novel of industrial greed, climate catastrophe, familial bonds and a little bit of hope.
Keith Cadieux, Winnipeg Free Press
Whatever 2038 is really like when it arrives, Canadians and others will still be reading Greenwood for its high energy, its memorable characters, and its anguished love for the forests.
Crawford Kilian, The Tyee
A lyrical, meditative take on a world in which forests have become such rare commodities that they are turned into therapeutic retreats for the very wealthy.
Sally Adee, New Scientist
A remarkable achievement.
Carol Off, As It Happens
A dystopian, historical, speculative, multigenerational family saga, this marvellous, generous book is best enjoyed in a forest.
Sharon Bala, author of The Boat People
Astonishing … What makes Greenwood an essential climate-change novel is that, rather than obsessing over a single, final apocalypse to come, it attempts something much harder and more ambitious: to transcend altogether the tropes of victim and antagonist … And to instead present humanity and nature as deeply, ultimately, endlessly interconnected … Greenwood offers a rare sentiment in the climate emergency: hope.
Damian Tarnopolsky, The Walrus
This superb family saga will satisfy fans of Richard Powers’s The Overstory while offering a convincing vision of potential ecological destruction.
Publishers Weekly
Greenwood is a compulsively readable, beautifully observed, deeply felt and rich tale that roves across Canadian history and landscape.
Pile by the Bed
Greenwood is a brilliant novel that demonstrates the ghastly effects of treating the environment as a commodity. This really is a novel for our times.
Theresa Smith Writes
[A] timely, moving novel.
Damien Lawardorn, Aurealis
A compulsively readable, beautifully observed, deeply felt and rich tale that roves across Canadian history and landscape.
Robert Goodman, The Blurb
An arresting eco-parable.
Alfred Hickling, The Guardian
An absorbing and original epic.
Dan Shaw, Happy Magazine
There are plenty of visionary moments laced into [Christie’s] shape-shifting narrative … Greenwood penetrates to the core of things.
Michael Upchurch, The New York Times Book Review
[W]ith the expert, deft hands of a seasoned carpenter, author Michael Christie carefully and methodically pieces together a story as intricate as the rings within a tree. The result is a deeply compelling novel of family and memory … Christie creates a sense of poetic, organic symmetry through rich characters and evocative, almost tactile descriptions … [W]hat stands out most by the end is the way in which Christie has been able to evoke and give voice to the way the cumulative effect of time and memory weighs on us all in ways both uplifting and terrifying. Greenwood is a towering, profound novel about the things that endure even as the world seems to be moving on.
Matthew Jackson, Bookpage
[E]ven if you’re suffering from what you might call Literary Tree Fatigue, Christie’s novel is worth reading, in part because it’s a clever mash-up of genres that distinguishes itself from its literary cousins and earns its bulk … broad messages aside, the heart of the novel is a winning and energetic chase story … When do we choose self-preservation, and when do we choose survival in a broader sense? The question has never gone away, but Greenwood closes with the message that it’s increasingly urgent.
Mark Athitakis, The Washington Post
A riveting tale of love, greed, sacrifice and betrayal – and an ode to the beauty of trees.
Nicole Abadee, The Age
Greenwood’s powerful narratives, fascinating characters, and lovely prose full of beautiful specificity, takes on our contemporary fears for the world. This is one of those novels you thrust at friends and insist: You have to read this! FIVE STARS
Wendy Waring, Good Reading
An impressive ecological novel … From the future, to the present, the past and back again, Greenwood is a moving novel of family sacrifice and love for a natural world.
Colin Steele, The Canberra Times
Christie dazzles with this richly woven historical tracking five generations of the ‘trouble-plagued’ Greenwood clan and the environmental devastation wrought by its lucrative timber empire … [A] spellbinding family saga reflecting fiction's intensifying interest in the climate crisis as well as humanity's innate desire to make amends for past wrongs and start anew. STARRED REVIEW
Annalisa Pešek, Library Journal
A celebration of nature. A complex, multigenerational family drama. A fight to save a dying planet. Michael Christie’s Greenwood is these things and more. It’s a transportive story that invites you to commune with nature and understand that our lives are inseparable from the natural world around us.
Eugen Bacon, Aurealis
Alexander MacLeod, author of Light Lifting
Greenwood is brilliant. Michael Christie shows a cross section of one family's history, revealing their dark secrets, loves, losses, and the mark of an accident still visible four generations later. Year by year, page by page, the layers of this intricate and elegant novel build into an epic story that is completely absorbing. I had to cancel everything for this book because I couldn't stop reading.
Claire Camerson, author of The Last Neanderthal
[An] eerily real-feeling future.
Globe and Mail
Rich with evocative descriptions of West Coast wilderness and anchored by a deep visceral bond to the trees that sustain us all, Greenwood is a literary page-turner that manages to be both nostalgic and modern, personal and political, intimately human and big-picture historical. In an era of so much uncertainty, it is comforting to see novelists begin to work through the biggest issue of our age. And, in this case, convert our collective suffering into brilliant, beauty-filled art.
Toronto Star
[S]tructured like the growth rings of a tree, spanning generation ... [Greenwood] looks at families, love and secrets against the backdrop of the 'magic' of trees.
CBC News
Ingeniously structured and with prose as smooth as beech bark, Michael Christie’s Greenwood is as compulsive as it is profound. A sweeping intergenerational saga that explores trees and their roots, from the precious evergreens that become commodities in the entertainment business of the future, to the intricately tangled trees of family — all of it is dazzlingly delivered in a framework inspired by the actual growth rings of a tree. Every one of Greenwood’s characters burrowed their way into my heart. Beguilingly brilliant, timely, and utterly engrossing, Greenwood is one of my favourite reads in recent memory.
Kira Jane Buxton, author of Hollow Kingdom
At once hypnotic and raging, dangerously real and brimming with hope, Greenwood is that most necessary epic that binds our human frailties to our planet's possibilities. Michael Christie tenderly rakes the past and paints a future without flinching. I read this book with my heart in my throat, in my hands, in my gut; I read this book heart-full.
Katy Simpson Smith, author of The Story of Land and Sea
Greenwood is a family story, fractured and often contradictory (as the best family stories usually are ... bring[ing] together the intimate and the sweeping, the human world and the natural, the past and the future.
Quill & Quire
Ingeniously structured and with prose as smooth as beech bark, Michael Christie’s Greenwood is as compulsive as it is profound. A sweeping intergenerational saga that explores trees and their roots — from the precious evergreens that become commodities in the entertainment business of the future to the intricately tangled trees of family — all of it is dazzlingly delivered in a framework inspired by the actual growth rings of a tree. Every one of Greenwood’s characters burrowed their way into my heart. Beguilingly brilliant, timely, and utterly engrossing, Greenwood is one of my favorite reads in recent memory.
Kira Jane Buxton
Greenwood is a sprawling and ambitious novel of industrial greed, climate catastrophe, familial bonds and a little bit of hope.
Keith Cadieux, Winnipeg Free Press
Whatever 2038 is really like when it arrives, Canadians and others will still be reading Greenwood for its high energy, its memorable characters, and its anguished love for the forests.
Crawford Kilian, The Tyee
A lyrical, meditative take on a world in which forests have become such rare commodities that they are turned into therapeutic retreats for the very wealthy.
Sally Adee, New Scientist
A remarkable achievement.
Carol Off, As It Happens
A dystopian, historical, speculative, multigenerational family saga, this marvellous, generous book is best enjoyed in a forest.
Sharon Bala, author of The Boat People
Astonishing … What makes Greenwood an essential climate-change novel is that, rather than obsessing over a single, final apocalypse to come, it attempts something much harder and more ambitious: to transcend altogether the tropes of victim and antagonist … And to instead present humanity and nature as deeply, ultimately, endlessly interconnected … Greenwood offers a rare sentiment in the climate emergency: hope.
Damian Tarnopolsky, The Walrus
This superb family saga will satisfy fans of Richard Powers’s The Overstory while offering a convincing vision of potential ecological destruction.
Publishers Weekly
Greenwood is a compulsively readable, beautifully observed, deeply felt and rich tale that roves across Canadian history and landscape.
Pile by the Bed
Greenwood is a brilliant novel that demonstrates the ghastly effects of treating the environment as a commodity. This really is a novel for our times.
Theresa Smith Writes
[A] timely, moving novel.
Damien Lawardorn, Aurealis
A compulsively readable, beautifully observed, deeply felt and rich tale that roves across Canadian history and landscape.
Robert Goodman, The Blurb
An arresting eco-parable.
Alfred Hickling, The Guardian
An absorbing and original epic.
Dan Shaw, Happy Magazine
There are plenty of visionary moments laced into [Christie’s] shape-shifting narrative … Greenwood penetrates to the core of things.
Michael Upchurch, The New York Times Book Review
[W]ith the expert, deft hands of a seasoned carpenter, author Michael Christie carefully and methodically pieces together a story as intricate as the rings within a tree. The result is a deeply compelling novel of family and memory … Christie creates a sense of poetic, organic symmetry through rich characters and evocative, almost tactile descriptions … [W]hat stands out most by the end is the way in which Christie has been able to evoke and give voice to the way the cumulative effect of time and memory weighs on us all in ways both uplifting and terrifying. Greenwood is a towering, profound novel about the things that endure even as the world seems to be moving on.
Matthew Jackson, Bookpage
[E]ven if you’re suffering from what you might call Literary Tree Fatigue, Christie’s novel is worth reading, in part because it’s a clever mash-up of genres that distinguishes itself from its literary cousins and earns its bulk … broad messages aside, the heart of the novel is a winning and energetic chase story … When do we choose self-preservation, and when do we choose survival in a broader sense? The question has never gone away, but Greenwood closes with the message that it’s increasingly urgent.
Mark Athitakis, The Washington Post
A riveting tale of love, greed, sacrifice and betrayal – and an ode to the beauty of trees.
Nicole Abadee, The Age
Greenwood’s powerful narratives, fascinating characters, and lovely prose full of beautiful specificity, takes on our contemporary fears for the world. This is one of those novels you thrust at friends and insist: You have to read this! FIVE STARS
Wendy Waring, Good Reading
An impressive ecological novel … From the future, to the present, the past and back again, Greenwood is a moving novel of family sacrifice and love for a natural world.
Colin Steele, The Canberra Times
Christie dazzles with this richly woven historical tracking five generations of the ‘trouble-plagued’ Greenwood clan and the environmental devastation wrought by its lucrative timber empire … [A] spellbinding family saga reflecting fiction's intensifying interest in the climate crisis as well as humanity's innate desire to make amends for past wrongs and start anew. STARRED REVIEW
Annalisa Pešek, Library Journal
A celebration of nature. A complex, multigenerational family drama. A fight to save a dying planet. Michael Christie’s Greenwood is these things and more. It’s a transportive story that invites you to commune with nature and understand that our lives are inseparable from the natural world around us.
Eugen Bacon, Aurealis
The Power of Showing Up: how parental presence shapes who our kids become and how their brains get wired by Tina Payne Bryson, Daniel J. Siegel
In this encouraging and empowering book, psychiatrist Siegel (Aware) and clinical social worker Bryson provide steps for parents and caregivers to help children attain success and “feel at home in the world” ... Thanks to this excellent work, Siegel and Payne will leave readers with an empathetic and helpful philosophy to apply to their own parenting.
Publishers Weekly
At a cultural moment when many kids feel more competition with their parents’ devices than with their siblings, Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson have spun a miracle — The Power of Showing Up is the ultimate guide to family reconnection. Clear, profound, and charmingly illustrated, it unravels the challenges of modern parenting and reveals the simple truths about what children really need from the adults in their lives.
Wendy Mogel, New York Times bestselling author of The Blessing of a Skinned Knee
Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson have written their best book yet — and that is saying a lot. They have distilled their parenting wisdom — based on neuroscience research and a deep empathy for children’s needs — into a profound concept: showing up. It is one of those great ideas that seems so obvious — but only after someone has shown it to you and spelled it out clearly. Best of all, Siegel and Bryson “show up” for the reader of this book. They know parents, know their fears and anxieties, hopes and dreams. They know that showing up for children is harder than it sounds, and they provide an accessible path to seeing and soothing children and providing them with safety and security.
Lawrence J. Cohen, PHD, author of Playful Parenting
This hopeful new book goes to the heart of every parent’s greatest wish: to raise a child who grows up to be a secure adult. In an unpredictable world, that can feel almost impossible. Drs Siegel and Bryson teach us how a parent can make a child feel safe, seen, soothed and secure, even if he or she didn’t have that in their own childhoods. There is parenting magic in this book.
Michael Thompson, PhD, co-author of the New York Times bestselling classic, Raising Cain
Parenting at this moment in time and at today’s pace feels hard. But that makes it all that much more important that we try to simplify the process of parenting and not put quite so much pressure on our own parenting shoulders. The Power Showing Up will help you do just that. Dan Siegel and Tina Payne are master teachers when it comes to helping parents react and respond to kids in ways that communicate “I hear you”. They articulate and quantify how to make your parenting easier — and better!
Christine Carter, PhD, author of Raising Happiness
The Power of Showing Up is an essential book for every parent who yearns to be more effective and present and, simply, better. It shows us that we don’t have to be perfect, but we can make our kids feel more secure and confident (now and in the future) if we are present and aware as parents. This important book gives us the steps to follow to make this happen.
Harold S. Koplewicz, MD, President, Child Mind Institute
Rarely does a book so broad and deep of subject give you the small do-able steps to find your way to success, confidence, and connection with your children. The Power of Showing Up brings to life the Zulu greeting “Sawubona” (I see you) and the refrain “Ngikhona” (I am here), which are essential for the parent-child connection.
Kim John Payne, author of Simplicity Parenting and The Soul of Discipline
Siegel and Bryson provide relatable real world examples and ... specific advice for handling various situations ... Parents looking for solid research delivered in an accessible manner will find Siegel and Bryson getting the job done well yet again.
Booklist
A fitting volume that expands on the authors’ previous work, filled with cartoons and straightforward strategies that will appeal to their fans as well as a wide range of general readers.
Julia M. Reffner, Library Journal
Dan Siegel and Tina Bryson have channeled all of their knowledge of child development into perhaps the most difficult yet important aspect of raising a child: showing up. The constant distractions that tempt us away from what is most important in life make The Power of Showing Up a necessary book for anyone raising a child in the digital age.
Jeff Stibel, New York Times bestselling author of Breakpoint
Offering strategies in communication, understanding and personal insight, The Power of Showing Up is a clear, compassionate instructional guide to the significant ways a shift in parental behaviour can and will affect a child. Highly recommended for parents, guardians and educators seeking insight for themselves and their children.
Shelf Awareness
Publishers Weekly
At a cultural moment when many kids feel more competition with their parents’ devices than with their siblings, Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson have spun a miracle — The Power of Showing Up is the ultimate guide to family reconnection. Clear, profound, and charmingly illustrated, it unravels the challenges of modern parenting and reveals the simple truths about what children really need from the adults in their lives.
Wendy Mogel, New York Times bestselling author of The Blessing of a Skinned Knee
Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson have written their best book yet — and that is saying a lot. They have distilled their parenting wisdom — based on neuroscience research and a deep empathy for children’s needs — into a profound concept: showing up. It is one of those great ideas that seems so obvious — but only after someone has shown it to you and spelled it out clearly. Best of all, Siegel and Bryson “show up” for the reader of this book. They know parents, know their fears and anxieties, hopes and dreams. They know that showing up for children is harder than it sounds, and they provide an accessible path to seeing and soothing children and providing them with safety and security.
Lawrence J. Cohen, PHD, author of Playful Parenting
This hopeful new book goes to the heart of every parent’s greatest wish: to raise a child who grows up to be a secure adult. In an unpredictable world, that can feel almost impossible. Drs Siegel and Bryson teach us how a parent can make a child feel safe, seen, soothed and secure, even if he or she didn’t have that in their own childhoods. There is parenting magic in this book.
Michael Thompson, PhD, co-author of the New York Times bestselling classic, Raising Cain
Parenting at this moment in time and at today’s pace feels hard. But that makes it all that much more important that we try to simplify the process of parenting and not put quite so much pressure on our own parenting shoulders. The Power Showing Up will help you do just that. Dan Siegel and Tina Payne are master teachers when it comes to helping parents react and respond to kids in ways that communicate “I hear you”. They articulate and quantify how to make your parenting easier — and better!
Christine Carter, PhD, author of Raising Happiness
The Power of Showing Up is an essential book for every parent who yearns to be more effective and present and, simply, better. It shows us that we don’t have to be perfect, but we can make our kids feel more secure and confident (now and in the future) if we are present and aware as parents. This important book gives us the steps to follow to make this happen.
Harold S. Koplewicz, MD, President, Child Mind Institute
Rarely does a book so broad and deep of subject give you the small do-able steps to find your way to success, confidence, and connection with your children. The Power of Showing Up brings to life the Zulu greeting “Sawubona” (I see you) and the refrain “Ngikhona” (I am here), which are essential for the parent-child connection.
Kim John Payne, author of Simplicity Parenting and The Soul of Discipline
Siegel and Bryson provide relatable real world examples and ... specific advice for handling various situations ... Parents looking for solid research delivered in an accessible manner will find Siegel and Bryson getting the job done well yet again.
Booklist
A fitting volume that expands on the authors’ previous work, filled with cartoons and straightforward strategies that will appeal to their fans as well as a wide range of general readers.
Julia M. Reffner, Library Journal
Dan Siegel and Tina Bryson have channeled all of their knowledge of child development into perhaps the most difficult yet important aspect of raising a child: showing up. The constant distractions that tempt us away from what is most important in life make The Power of Showing Up a necessary book for anyone raising a child in the digital age.
Jeff Stibel, New York Times bestselling author of Breakpoint
Offering strategies in communication, understanding and personal insight, The Power of Showing Up is a clear, compassionate instructional guide to the significant ways a shift in parental behaviour can and will affect a child. Highly recommended for parents, guardians and educators seeking insight for themselves and their children.
Shelf Awareness
The Devil by Nadia Dalbuono
Lively writing and colourful characters make for an entertaining read. And although the fifth in the series, it’s easy to pick up the background. FOUR STARS
Shelley Orchard, SA Weekend
The Devil y Nadia Dalbuono has everything a good page-turner should possess: murder, conspiracy, secrecy, corruption and the mafia.
Belinda Brady, Aurealis
Shelley Orchard, SA Weekend
The Devil y Nadia Dalbuono has everything a good page-turner should possess: murder, conspiracy, secrecy, corruption and the mafia.
Belinda Brady, Aurealis
Izzy and Frank by Katrina Lehman
Izzy and Frank is an exquisite ode to old friends, new beginnings and the carefree adventures of childhood.
Shannon Wong-Nizic, Oh Creative Day
This is a lovely story about a unique friendship between a little girl and her seagull [that] also touches on the trauma of moving house and starting a new school. FOUR STARS
Good Reading
This is a beautifully lyrical story dealing with moving house and the acceptance of change. Through the eyes of Izzy, it is learnt that you can live a life celebrating elements of the old and the new. Izzy is an imaginative and original character and has a lovely curious nature about her. I highly recommend it.
Suzie Bull, Farrells Bookshop (ABA Text Publishing Bookseller of the Year 2019)
An entertaining collaboration between author Katrina Lehman and illustrator Sophie Beer, Izzy and Frank is an original, utterly charming, and unreservedly recommended addition to family, daycare centre, preschool, elementary school, and community library picture book collections for children.
Children’s Bookwatch, Midwest Book Review
Lehman’s sweet story is beautifully composed and full of satisfying alliteration (‘wild-wind-blowy days’ and ‘sparkly, spiky starfish’), and Beer’s illustrations are just as lovely. Set to a striking palette of turquoise and orange, the wonderfully detailed artwork invites readers into both the spacious seaside and the landlocked cityscape. Izzy’s journey will particularly resonate with young readers who have faced a change of address, helping them remember that home (and fun) can be found anywhere, with anyone.
Booklist
A touching story about a truly unique friendship ... A beautiful picture book, perfect for reminiscing about adventurous summer holidays or fun times with the family and getting excited about going back to school.
Louise Weeks, Mum’s Grapevine
Alexander Fernández, Mr Alex’s Bookshelf
Lehman’s sweet story is beautifully composed and full of satisfying alliteration (‘wild-wind-blowy days’ and ‘sparkly, spiky starfish’), and Beer’s illustrations are just as lovely. Set to a striking palette of turquoise and orange, the wonderfully detailed artwork invites readers into both the spacious seaside and the landlocked cityscape. Izzy’s journey will particularly resonate with young readers who have faced a change of address, helping them remember that home (and fun) can be found anywhere, with anyone.
Booklist
Shannon Wong-Nizic, Oh Creative Day
This is a lovely story about a unique friendship between a little girl and her seagull [that] also touches on the trauma of moving house and starting a new school. FOUR STARS
Good Reading
This is a beautifully lyrical story dealing with moving house and the acceptance of change. Through the eyes of Izzy, it is learnt that you can live a life celebrating elements of the old and the new. Izzy is an imaginative and original character and has a lovely curious nature about her. I highly recommend it.
Suzie Bull, Farrells Bookshop (ABA Text Publishing Bookseller of the Year 2019)
An entertaining collaboration between author Katrina Lehman and illustrator Sophie Beer, Izzy and Frank is an original, utterly charming, and unreservedly recommended addition to family, daycare centre, preschool, elementary school, and community library picture book collections for children.
Children’s Bookwatch, Midwest Book Review
Lehman’s sweet story is beautifully composed and full of satisfying alliteration (‘wild-wind-blowy days’ and ‘sparkly, spiky starfish’), and Beer’s illustrations are just as lovely. Set to a striking palette of turquoise and orange, the wonderfully detailed artwork invites readers into both the spacious seaside and the landlocked cityscape. Izzy’s journey will particularly resonate with young readers who have faced a change of address, helping them remember that home (and fun) can be found anywhere, with anyone.
Booklist
A touching story about a truly unique friendship ... A beautiful picture book, perfect for reminiscing about adventurous summer holidays or fun times with the family and getting excited about going back to school.
Louise Weeks, Mum’s Grapevine
From the moment you gaze at the cover, Izzy’s bright smile, pale pale skin and gloriously red hair pull you into this charming picture book that literally pops off the page. Beer’s illustrations grab your attention with her beautifully detailed renderings rich in soft blues and warm earthy tones. The book, however, is more than just pretty pictures (and pretty they are), it tells a wonderful story of a girl that moves away, and starts a new life.
Alexander Fernández, Mr Alex’s Bookshelf
Lehman’s sweet story is beautifully composed and full of satisfying alliteration (‘wild-wind-blowy days’ and ‘sparkly, spiky starfish’), and Beer’s illustrations are just as lovely. Set to a striking palette of turquoise and orange, the wonderfully detailed artwork invites readers into both the spacious seaside and the landlocked cityscape. Izzy’s journey will particularly resonate with young readers who have faced a change of address, helping them remember that home (and fun) can be found anywhere, with anyone.
Booklist
Greenwood by Michael Christie
This book is why we read books. Why we need books. Wildly inventive, structurally elegant, deeply felt, and so very wise. Greenwood is Michael Christie’s best work ever, and that’s saying something.
Alexander MacLeod, author of Light Lifting
Greenwood is brilliant. Michael Christie shows a cross section of one family's history, revealing their dark secrets, loves, losses, and the mark of an accident still visible four generations later. Year by year, page by page, the layers of this intricate and elegant novel build into an epic story that is completely absorbing. I had to cancel everything for this book because I couldn't stop reading.
Claire Camerson, author of The Last Neanderthal
[An] eerily real-feeling future.
Globe and Mail
Rich with evocative descriptions of West Coast wilderness and anchored by a deep visceral bond to the trees that sustain us all, Greenwood is a literary page-turner that manages to be both nostalgic and modern, personal and political, intimately human and big-picture historical. In an era of so much uncertainty, it is comforting to see novelists begin to work through the biggest issue of our age. And, in this case, convert our collective suffering into brilliant, beauty-filled art.
Toronto Star
[S]tructured like the growth rings of a tree, spanning generation ... [Greenwood] looks at families, love and secrets against the backdrop of the 'magic' of trees.
CBC News
Ingeniously structured and with prose as smooth as beech bark, Michael Christie’s Greenwood is as compulsive as it is profound. A sweeping intergenerational saga that explores trees and their roots, from the precious evergreens that become commodities in the entertainment business of the future, to the intricately tangled trees of family — all of it is dazzlingly delivered in a framework inspired by the actual growth rings of a tree. Every one of Greenwood’s characters burrowed their way into my heart. Beguilingly brilliant, timely, and utterly engrossing, Greenwood is one of my favourite reads in recent memory.
Kira Jane Buxton, author of Hollow Kingdom
At once hypnotic and raging, dangerously real and brimming with hope, Greenwood is that most necessary epic that binds our human frailties to our planet's possibilities. Michael Christie tenderly rakes the past and paints a future without flinching. I read this book with my heart in my throat, in my hands, in my gut; I read this book heart-full.
Katy Simpson Smith, author of The Story of Land and Sea
Greenwood is a family story, fractured and often contradictory (as the best family stories usually are ... bring[ing] together the intimate and the sweeping, the human world and the natural, the past and the future.
Quill & Quire
Ingeniously structured and with prose as smooth as beech bark, Michael Christie’s Greenwood is as compulsive as it is profound. A sweeping intergenerational saga that explores trees and their roots — from the precious evergreens that become commodities in the entertainment business of the future to the intricately tangled trees of family — all of it is dazzlingly delivered in a framework inspired by the actual growth rings of a tree. Every one of Greenwood’s characters burrowed their way into my heart. Beguilingly brilliant, timely, and utterly engrossing, Greenwood is one of my favorite reads in recent memory.
Kira Jane Buxton
Greenwood is a sprawling and ambitious novel of industrial greed, climate catastrophe, familial bonds and a little bit of hope.
Keith Cadieux, Winnipeg Free Press
Whatever 2038 is really like when it arrives, Canadians and others will still be reading Greenwood for its high energy, its memorable characters, and its anguished love for the forests.
Crawford Kilian, The Tyee
A lyrical, meditative take on a world in which forests have become such rare commodities that they are turned into therapeutic retreats for the very wealthy.
Sally Adee, New Scientist
A remarkable achievement.
Carol Off, As It Happens
A dystopian, historical, speculative, multigenerational family saga, this marvellous, generous book is best enjoyed in a forest.
Sharon Bala, author of The Boat People
Astonishing … What makes Greenwood an essential climate-change novel is that, rather than obsessing over a single, final apocalypse to come, it attempts something much harder and more ambitious: to transcend altogether the tropes of victim and antagonist … And to instead present humanity and nature as deeply, ultimately, endlessly interconnected … Greenwood offers a rare sentiment in the climate emergency: hope.
Damian Tarnopolsky, The Walrus
This superb family saga will satisfy fans of Richard Powers’s The Overstory while offering a convincing vision of potential ecological destruction.
Publishers Weekly
Greenwood is a compulsively readable, beautifully observed, deeply felt and rich tale that roves across Canadian history and landscape.
Pile by the Bed
Greenwood is a brilliant novel that demonstrates the ghastly effects of treating the environment as a commodity. This really is a novel for our times.
Theresa Smith Writes
[A] timely, moving novel.
Damien Lawardorn, Aurealis
A compulsively readable, beautifully observed, deeply felt and rich tale that roves across Canadian history and landscape.
Robert Goodman, The Blurb
An arresting eco-parable.
Alfred Hickling, The Guardian
An absorbing and original epic.
Dan Shaw, Happy Magazine
There are plenty of visionary moments laced into [Christie’s] shape-shifting narrative … Greenwood penetrates to the core of things.
Michael Upchurch, The New York Times Book Review
[W]ith the expert, deft hands of a seasoned carpenter, author Michael Christie carefully and methodically pieces together a story as intricate as the rings within a tree. The result is a deeply compelling novel of family and memory … Christie creates a sense of poetic, organic symmetry through rich characters and evocative, almost tactile descriptions … [W]hat stands out most by the end is the way in which Christie has been able to evoke and give voice to the way the cumulative effect of time and memory weighs on us all in ways both uplifting and terrifying. Greenwood is a towering, profound novel about the things that endure even as the world seems to be moving on.
Matthew Jackson, Bookpage
[E]ven if you’re suffering from what you might call Literary Tree Fatigue, Christie’s novel is worth reading, in part because it’s a clever mash-up of genres that distinguishes itself from its literary cousins and earns its bulk … broad messages aside, the heart of the novel is a winning and energetic chase story … When do we choose self-preservation, and when do we choose survival in a broader sense? The question has never gone away, but Greenwood closes with the message that it’s increasingly urgent.
Mark Athitakis, The Washington Post
A riveting tale of love, greed, sacrifice and betrayal – and an ode to the beauty of trees.
Nicole Abadee, The Age
Greenwood’s powerful narratives, fascinating characters, and lovely prose full of beautiful specificity, takes on our contemporary fears for the world. This is one of those novels you thrust at friends and insist: You have to read this! FIVE STARS
Wendy Waring, Good Reading
An impressive ecological novel … From the future, to the present, the past and back again, Greenwood is a moving novel of family sacrifice and love for a natural world.
Colin Steele, The Canberra Times
Christie dazzles with this richly woven historical tracking five generations of the ‘trouble-plagued’ Greenwood clan and the environmental devastation wrought by its lucrative timber empire … [A] spellbinding family saga reflecting fiction's intensifying interest in the climate crisis as well as humanity's innate desire to make amends for past wrongs and start anew. STARRED REVIEW
Annalisa Pešek, Library Journal
A celebration of nature. A complex, multigenerational family drama. A fight to save a dying planet. Michael Christie’s Greenwood is these things and more. It’s a transportive story that invites you to commune with nature and understand that our lives are inseparable from the natural world around us.
Eugen Bacon, Aurealis
Alexander MacLeod, author of Light Lifting
Greenwood is brilliant. Michael Christie shows a cross section of one family's history, revealing their dark secrets, loves, losses, and the mark of an accident still visible four generations later. Year by year, page by page, the layers of this intricate and elegant novel build into an epic story that is completely absorbing. I had to cancel everything for this book because I couldn't stop reading.
Claire Camerson, author of The Last Neanderthal
[An] eerily real-feeling future.
Globe and Mail
Rich with evocative descriptions of West Coast wilderness and anchored by a deep visceral bond to the trees that sustain us all, Greenwood is a literary page-turner that manages to be both nostalgic and modern, personal and political, intimately human and big-picture historical. In an era of so much uncertainty, it is comforting to see novelists begin to work through the biggest issue of our age. And, in this case, convert our collective suffering into brilliant, beauty-filled art.
Toronto Star
[S]tructured like the growth rings of a tree, spanning generation ... [Greenwood] looks at families, love and secrets against the backdrop of the 'magic' of trees.
CBC News
Ingeniously structured and with prose as smooth as beech bark, Michael Christie’s Greenwood is as compulsive as it is profound. A sweeping intergenerational saga that explores trees and their roots, from the precious evergreens that become commodities in the entertainment business of the future, to the intricately tangled trees of family — all of it is dazzlingly delivered in a framework inspired by the actual growth rings of a tree. Every one of Greenwood’s characters burrowed their way into my heart. Beguilingly brilliant, timely, and utterly engrossing, Greenwood is one of my favourite reads in recent memory.
Kira Jane Buxton, author of Hollow Kingdom
At once hypnotic and raging, dangerously real and brimming with hope, Greenwood is that most necessary epic that binds our human frailties to our planet's possibilities. Michael Christie tenderly rakes the past and paints a future without flinching. I read this book with my heart in my throat, in my hands, in my gut; I read this book heart-full.
Katy Simpson Smith, author of The Story of Land and Sea
Greenwood is a family story, fractured and often contradictory (as the best family stories usually are ... bring[ing] together the intimate and the sweeping, the human world and the natural, the past and the future.
Quill & Quire
Ingeniously structured and with prose as smooth as beech bark, Michael Christie’s Greenwood is as compulsive as it is profound. A sweeping intergenerational saga that explores trees and their roots — from the precious evergreens that become commodities in the entertainment business of the future to the intricately tangled trees of family — all of it is dazzlingly delivered in a framework inspired by the actual growth rings of a tree. Every one of Greenwood’s characters burrowed their way into my heart. Beguilingly brilliant, timely, and utterly engrossing, Greenwood is one of my favorite reads in recent memory.
Kira Jane Buxton
Greenwood is a sprawling and ambitious novel of industrial greed, climate catastrophe, familial bonds and a little bit of hope.
Keith Cadieux, Winnipeg Free Press
Whatever 2038 is really like when it arrives, Canadians and others will still be reading Greenwood for its high energy, its memorable characters, and its anguished love for the forests.
Crawford Kilian, The Tyee
A lyrical, meditative take on a world in which forests have become such rare commodities that they are turned into therapeutic retreats for the very wealthy.
Sally Adee, New Scientist
A remarkable achievement.
Carol Off, As It Happens
A dystopian, historical, speculative, multigenerational family saga, this marvellous, generous book is best enjoyed in a forest.
Sharon Bala, author of The Boat People
Astonishing … What makes Greenwood an essential climate-change novel is that, rather than obsessing over a single, final apocalypse to come, it attempts something much harder and more ambitious: to transcend altogether the tropes of victim and antagonist … And to instead present humanity and nature as deeply, ultimately, endlessly interconnected … Greenwood offers a rare sentiment in the climate emergency: hope.
Damian Tarnopolsky, The Walrus
This superb family saga will satisfy fans of Richard Powers’s The Overstory while offering a convincing vision of potential ecological destruction.
Publishers Weekly
Greenwood is a compulsively readable, beautifully observed, deeply felt and rich tale that roves across Canadian history and landscape.
Pile by the Bed
Greenwood is a brilliant novel that demonstrates the ghastly effects of treating the environment as a commodity. This really is a novel for our times.
Theresa Smith Writes
[A] timely, moving novel.
Damien Lawardorn, Aurealis
A compulsively readable, beautifully observed, deeply felt and rich tale that roves across Canadian history and landscape.
Robert Goodman, The Blurb
An arresting eco-parable.
Alfred Hickling, The Guardian
An absorbing and original epic.
Dan Shaw, Happy Magazine
There are plenty of visionary moments laced into [Christie’s] shape-shifting narrative … Greenwood penetrates to the core of things.
Michael Upchurch, The New York Times Book Review
[W]ith the expert, deft hands of a seasoned carpenter, author Michael Christie carefully and methodically pieces together a story as intricate as the rings within a tree. The result is a deeply compelling novel of family and memory … Christie creates a sense of poetic, organic symmetry through rich characters and evocative, almost tactile descriptions … [W]hat stands out most by the end is the way in which Christie has been able to evoke and give voice to the way the cumulative effect of time and memory weighs on us all in ways both uplifting and terrifying. Greenwood is a towering, profound novel about the things that endure even as the world seems to be moving on.
Matthew Jackson, Bookpage
[E]ven if you’re suffering from what you might call Literary Tree Fatigue, Christie’s novel is worth reading, in part because it’s a clever mash-up of genres that distinguishes itself from its literary cousins and earns its bulk … broad messages aside, the heart of the novel is a winning and energetic chase story … When do we choose self-preservation, and when do we choose survival in a broader sense? The question has never gone away, but Greenwood closes with the message that it’s increasingly urgent.
Mark Athitakis, The Washington Post
A riveting tale of love, greed, sacrifice and betrayal – and an ode to the beauty of trees.
Nicole Abadee, The Age
Greenwood’s powerful narratives, fascinating characters, and lovely prose full of beautiful specificity, takes on our contemporary fears for the world. This is one of those novels you thrust at friends and insist: You have to read this! FIVE STARS
Wendy Waring, Good Reading
An impressive ecological novel … From the future, to the present, the past and back again, Greenwood is a moving novel of family sacrifice and love for a natural world.
Colin Steele, The Canberra Times
Christie dazzles with this richly woven historical tracking five generations of the ‘trouble-plagued’ Greenwood clan and the environmental devastation wrought by its lucrative timber empire … [A] spellbinding family saga reflecting fiction's intensifying interest in the climate crisis as well as humanity's innate desire to make amends for past wrongs and start anew. STARRED REVIEW
Annalisa Pešek, Library Journal
A celebration of nature. A complex, multigenerational family drama. A fight to save a dying planet. Michael Christie’s Greenwood is these things and more. It’s a transportive story that invites you to commune with nature and understand that our lives are inseparable from the natural world around us.
Eugen Bacon, Aurealis