Clare Cannon

Clare Cannon lives in Sydney where she is editor of The Good Reading Guide and manager of Portico Books, the world’s most beautiful boutique bookstore specialising in quality literature for adults and children. After a Bachelor of Arts in English, History and Fine Arts and a Master of Arts in Communications, she felt the gravitational pull of the family book business and now devotes all of her time and talent to the promotion of good reading.

Locally she’s become infamous for ‘Portico book tastings’ where she briefs a captive audience on which new books are best for whom, leaving everyone resolved to give up TV and rediscover the delights of the written word.

Books for fun and inspiration…

26 Feb 2013 |

tags: book lists, cheerfulness

… and an antidote for the over-cheerful. All good literature, though.

Favourite books of 2012

18 Dec 2012 |

tags: book reviews, books, literature, reading

Looking for a good read over the Christmas holidays? A late present? Look no further.

Holiday reading for both hemispheres

26 Jun 2012 |

tags: best of, book reviews

Expert advice on selecting books for teens and young adults.

I’ve lost my appetite for The Hunger Games

20 Mar 2012 |

tags: movies

A video review of the hottest film since Twilight and Harry Potter.

Dark themes in teen literature

23 Jun 2011 |

tags: dark themes, teenagers

Where do you seek entertainment when you’re through with sentimental romance? In graphic violence, perhaps?

The best thing since Harry Potter?

5 Aug 2008 |

Teenage girls have fallen in love with this breathtaking vampire romance.