Thursday, 16 May 2013
This is Anna Romer’s first novel and it reflects her stated fascination with old diaries, letters and dark family secrets. It...
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Thursday, 16 May 2013
This impressive debut from Fiona McFarlane tells the story of elderly widow Ruth, who lives by the sea with a fabulous...
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Thursday, 16 May 2013
Losing your mind, that quintessential ‘me’, even partially, through trauma, disease or disorder, frightens most people. Trouble in Mind is a...
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Thursday, 16 May 2013
These stories detail adventures in sex and romance at a top law firm in New York. Each story focusses on a...
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Thursday, 16 May 2013
A murder, a trial, a Muslim Lebanese-Australian crime family, drugs and police corruption: Michael Duffy packs it all into this fast-moving...
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Thursday, 16 May 2013
A friend of mine recently told me that crime writing’s unusual pull on the imagination was that it began at the...
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Friday, 3 May 2013
When the Boba the baboon gathers the tallest animals in the world together for a photo portrait, little Geri is embarrassed....
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Friday, 3 May 2013
Sixteen-year-old Danika is a street kid in a world where a tyrant king keeps the population cowed with alchemy bombs dropped...
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Friday, 3 May 2013
This picture book tells the story of a young kookaburra. He is discovered by the family cat when he is just...
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Wednesday, 1 May 2013
A road novel, a tale of magic realism, a story of two outsiders finding each other, and a search for identity...
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Wednesday, 1 May 2013
The book that comes to mind on having finished Inga Simpson’s Mr Wigg is Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. They...
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Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Opening with a daring robbery at a Kalgoorlie gold mine, Heist is an action novel that doesn’t really live up to...
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Thursday, 18 April 2013
ABC journalist Mark Willacy won a Walkley Award for his coverage of the 2011 tsunami and subsequent nuclear disasters in Japan....
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Friday, 5 April 2013
In this suspenseful gothic thriller set in late Victorian England, John Harwood (The Ghost Writer, Séance) has clearly had fun with...
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Friday, 5 April 2013
Catherine Berlin, a private investigator with a heroin addiction, is battling the unseasonal heat of London as well as physical scars...
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Friday, 5 April 2013
Kirsten Krauth’s debut novel is by turns frustrating and exhilarating. On one hand, the plot is fraught with clichés connected to...
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Friday, 5 April 2013
Over the years Perth-based screenwriter Ron Elliott has accumulated a drawer full of part-finished scripts or sketches for film or TV...
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Friday, 5 April 2013
Mel Campbell’s first book is a lively and personal waltz through the history and culture of clothing size and fit. Campbell...
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Friday, 5 April 2013
It’s quite a bold move to name your book Holy Bible; it could pique curiousity or incite alienation. Let’s hope it’s...
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Friday, 5 April 2013
This is the second adult novel from Nicole Trope, author of The Boy under the Table, and like that tale, it...
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Friday, 5 April 2013
‘We can’t always control what happens to us, we can only control what we do about it.’ Though difficult to grasp...
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Friday, 5 April 2013
Australian history never looked like this! Historian David Hunt takes aim at some of Australia’s historical sacred cows with his unique...
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Friday, 5 April 2013
This short book is the first in what promises to be a great new series from Black Inc. called ‘Redbacks’. The...
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Friday, 5 April 2013
The entire town of Broken Hill has been killed off by a deadly weapon: a word. And it seems as though...
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Friday, 5 April 2013
Ali Alizadeh’s critically acclaimed book of poetry Ashes in the Air was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards last year...
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Friday, 5 April 2013
‘Now you are dead perhaps we can really talk.’ Ryan’s last poetry collection, The Argument, won the WA Premier’s Book Award...
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Friday, 5 April 2013
Timeliness is next to godliness if you’re a popular fiction author, and Peter Cotton’s debut novel Dead Cat Bounce is about...
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Friday, 5 April 2013
With simple, informative text and clear illustrations, we follow a bear called Bernard as he packs for his trip and takes...
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Friday, 5 April 2013
Big Red Kangaroo is a beautifully illustrated picture book that combines narrative and fact to create an accessible introduction to this...
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Friday, 5 April 2013
What would happen if you let go of your mum’s hand and blew away up into the sky? Would you have...
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Friday, 5 April 2013
This book explores the special relationship that develops between a child and their first pet. Roddy and Banana have been best...
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Friday, 5 April 2013
This entertaining story begins in rural China. Mei lives on a farm with her mother, brother and two beloved chooks, Little...
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Friday, 5 April 2013
We meet Lulu Bell on a very important day—her little sister Rosie’s sixth birthday. Everything seems to be going according to...
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Friday, 5 April 2013
This is a companion title to Stories from the Billabong by the same collaborators. It is a gorgeously presented book, full...
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Friday, 5 April 2013
This is an outstanding first entry in the ‘Through My Eyes’ series for readers aged 11-14, which aims to increase awareness...
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Friday, 5 April 2013
Stay is a fibreglass golden labrador with a slot in her head. Her job is to sit in front of a...
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Friday, 5 April 2013
It’s a big call to compare an author to Margo Lanagan, Neil Gaiman and Holly Black—even more so when that author...
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Friday, 5 April 2013
The First Third is the second book by author Will Kostakis, following Loathing Lola. We meet Bill and his family in...
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Friday, 5 April 2013
Short stories are little adventures that allow us to fall briefly from our world into another—a fundamental part of the human...
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Friday, 5 April 2013
This is the third and final book in James Maloney’s fantasy series, which began in 2011 with Silvermay. It picks up...
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Friday, 5 April 2013
It’s a rare treat to find a sports-focused YA novel with a female protagonist, and Australian author Nicole Hayes’ moving 1980s-set...
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Friday, 5 April 2013
Wildlife is a poignant and insightful view into the teenage battleground of friendships, family and new romance, and is Fiona Wood’s...
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Thursday, 4 April 2013
Longstanding Australian music journalists John O’Donnell, Craig Mathieson and Toby Cresswell have compiled this collection of The 100 Best Albums of...
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Thursday, 4 April 2013
Who We Were is a sweeping love story that spans multiple continents and decades. Annabel is just 17 when she meets...
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Thursday, 4 April 2013
Dystopian worlds can be as perilous for those writing about them as they are for those occupying them. Thankfully Jane Rawson...
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Thursday, 21 March 2013
On Christmas morning a biblically epic storm traps Sarah Barnard and her horse on the (nominally Tasmanian) Devil’s Mountain. Sarah finds...
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Thursday, 21 March 2013
General fiction readers should enjoy this second novel from Hannah Richell, author of Secrets of the Tides. Alternating chapters piece together...
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Thursday, 21 March 2013
The 2005 SBS TV program Speaking in Tongues, co-hosted by John Safran, first introduced Father Bob to a wider audience, but...
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Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Sweet Damage is the hotly anticipated new book from Rebecca James, whose debut YA thriller Beautiful Malice generated much hype around...
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Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Australian-based, British-born YA author Emily Gale’s latest novel, Steal My Sunshine, explores long-buried secrets and loyalties in the shadow of a...
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Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Astor’s passion is for music, but she’ll take an arranged marriage if it gets her out of her stepfather’s house. Instead...
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Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Young Tom Applecross has recently lost his father Josiah, the famous explorer and discoverer of the Lost City. With Josiah missing...
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Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Tuesday’s mother is Serendipity Smith, the most famous author in the world. Serendipity is supposed to finish her latest novel today,...
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Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Illustrator Christina Bollenbach has turned her hand to writing with How to Catch a Monster. Sweatband-wearing Lukas is visited by a...
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Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Bird & Bear is a beautifully illustrated picture book that explores the unfolding wonder of a young teddy bear as he...
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Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Individually, Terry Denton and Ursula Dubosarsky are so beloved by children and adults that they’ll no doubt attract a fanbase for...
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Tuesday, 12 February 2013
Simón and David have stepped off a boat in a new country. After six weeks in a camp learning Spanish, they...
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Monday, 11 February 2013
I have a love/hate relationship with anthologies; just as you settle into one story, the author and style changes—and not always...
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Monday, 11 February 2013
Helen Trinca draws on interviews with family and friends of Madeleine St John to compose this first biography of the Australian...
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Monday, 11 February 2013
It is the mid-80s and Australian scientist Anthony Malloy is working in London on a revolutionary invention—a tamper-proof, one-use syringe. It...
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Monday, 11 February 2013
One evening, Helen Sage’s 22-year-old daughter Jayne is involved in a near-fatal car accident. The family’s lives are immediately transformed as...
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Monday, 11 February 2013
Brendan Shanahan’s collection of travel stories begins with his trip on a leaky barge up China’s Yangtze River towards the Three...
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Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Twitcher is Cherise Saywell’s second novel after her impressive debut, Desert Fish. Sixteen-year-old Kenno lives with his parents and sister in...
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Tuesday, 5 February 2013
This is a bubbly little book that, on the first sip, surprises with its light and airy style, but after a...
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Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Katerina Cosgrove co-founded Sappho Books and Gertrude & Alice bookstore/café in Sydney. Her first novel The Glass Heart was published to...
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Tuesday, 5 February 2013
This is the first book in Kylie Chan’s ‘Celestial Battle’ trilogy, which combines martial arts and magic, although it is the...
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Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Colin Batrouney explores the redemptive power of fiction in his second novel. Books have given Joel’s otherwise aimless life a direction...
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Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Elemental continues Amanda Curtin’s fruitful fascination with memory, history and the generational legacies of family, following her debut novel The Sinkings...
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Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Cory Taylor’s debut novel—the critically acclaimed Me and Mr Booker—was a brilliant and darkly comic coming-of-age story. My Beautiful Enemy, her...
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Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Set on the south coast of NSW in Thirroul in 1948, where D H Lawrence wrote Kangaroo, this stunning novel follows...
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Tuesday, 5 February 2013
The celebrated artist Emily Reich is worth millions and lauded by the art community. Her younger sister Bec has scraped by...
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Tuesday, 5 February 2013
What a mess people can make of their lives. In this remarkable novel we meet Nina, a consultant on memorial projects,...
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Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Warren ‘Wren’ Fox is a 35-year-old who lives with his mother in a one-bedroom house in semi-rural Victoria. He works for...
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Tuesday, 5 February 2013
The French Promise continues the World War II story of Luc and Lisette, the protagonists of McIntosh’s The Lavender Keeper, although...
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Tuesday, 5 February 2013
In his third novel, Richard Beasley tells a ‘rites of passage’ story from the perspective of the child while the adult...
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Tuesday, 5 February 2013
I thoroughly enjoyed this tale of Nell, a journalist in Perth during World War II. Although Nell generally covers ‘women’s business’...
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Tuesday, 5 February 2013
The fires of Black Saturday in 2009 are a significant event in Australia’s history. But, as Peter Stanley writes in some...
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Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Steven Carroll is a long-term admirer of T S Eliot and has already won praise for his adaption of Eliot’s poem...
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Tuesday, 5 February 2013
In 1950 in far north Queensland, a pregnant 19-year-old boards a train with her baby boy, only to have her child...
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Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Burial Rites is an impressively assured debut from Adelaide writer Hannah Kent, who made headlines last year when her manuscript triggered...
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Tuesday, 5 February 2013
It’s not surprising to learn that a young Andy Griffiths was inspired by Der Struwwelpeter, discovering in those comically horrific German...
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Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Odette and Cicely are best friends. Odette is a ceramic artist and serial monogamist; Cicely likes to knit and once published...
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Tuesday, 5 February 2013
This is not a book about ‘how to feel good, how to find happiness or how to reap some reward for...
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Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Having recently read Anna Goldsworthy’s celebrated first memoir Piano Lessons, I jumped at the chance to review her second, given how...
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Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Many adjectives have been used to describe Georgia Blain’s work, including evocative, powerful, atmospheric, haunting, rich, thought-provoking, skilful, uncompromising and finely...
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Monday, 4 February 2013
This book introduces each member of a large family as, one by one, they make their way towards the town square....
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Monday, 4 February 2013
The Cloud Road is the second book in Isobelle Carmody’s ‘Kingdom of the Lost Book’ fantasy series for younger readers. After...
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Monday, 4 February 2013
Tim Hehir’s debut YA novel Julius and the Watchmaker takes us into the world of Julius Caesar Higgins, a boy who...
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Thursday, 31 January 2013
Independently and together, Janeen Brian and Ann James have produced many successful and award-winning picture books for young children. Both know...
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Thursday, 31 January 2013
Mira’s first year of university has just begun and she is determined it will be a fresh start. The year is...
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Thursday, 31 January 2013
Illustrator Leila Rudge is making a name for herself in Australian picture books, and has collaborated on several books with author...
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Thursday, 31 January 2013
Sabina is no ordinary 16-year-old girl. On alternate days, she wakes up in a different life. In one, she’s a popular...
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Thursday, 31 January 2013
Light Horse Boy is the story of a young Anzac and his journey through World War I. Jim is only 17...
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Thursday, 31 January 2013
Max & George is a subtle and sophisticated children’s book that will be more suitable to early primary school readers than preschoolers...
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Thursday, 31 January 2013
Giraffe, elephant, hippo and baboon all live by the lake. They are neighbours, happily co-existing side by side without any territorial...
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Thursday, 31 January 2013
When nine-year-old Peat is blamed for bringing misfortune to the local settlement, she flees to the marshes. There she is caught...
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Thursday, 31 January 2013
Bailey’s family has not had a good year. After her father’s accidental death, her sister has started drinking, her brother won’t...
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Thursday, 31 January 2013
This is a story about two unlikely friends whose names offer an insight into their characters. Readers are introduced to Joyous...
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Thursday, 31 January 2013
With a similar look and pitch as Lauren Child’s ‘Clarice Bean’ books, ‘Truly Tan’ is a fantastic new series for all...
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Thursday, 31 January 2013
Thomas Harris meets John Marsden in this taut YA psychological thriller about friendship and trust in the changing social landscape. It...
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Wednesday, 30 January 2013
Many of Books+Publishing’s readers may already be familiar with Jo Case, who is well known in Melbourne publishing circles as an...
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Friday, 14 December 2012
Callum Ormond just can't stay out of trouble. He has barely had time to catch his breath following the year-long adventure...
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Friday, 14 December 2012
UWA Publishing should be commended for going against the grain in publishing such a highly literary and experimental novel. And I...
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Friday, 14 December 2012
Candice Phee is 12, nearly 13, and she is intelligent and helpful, she likes to read the dictionary and Charles Dickens,...
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Friday, 14 December 2012
Self-appointed PI Cass Tuplin runs the takeaway shop in drought-ridden Rusty Bore. She has two sons—the local copper Dean and vegetarian...
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Friday, 14 December 2012
In Europe World War II rages, but in Singapore 17-year-old Victoria Khoo is preoccupied with her plans to marry Sebastian Boustead,...
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Friday, 14 December 2012
In today’s Kimberley region, water is a natural resource, a social necessity, a political advantage and a means for personal ambition....
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Thursday, 13 December 2012
Cat and Fiddle, winner of the 2011 CAL Scribe Fiction Prize for an unpublished manuscript, follows the scandals and fortunes of...
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Thursday, 13 December 2012
It’s the early 1930s. Whaling is booming in Antarctic waters while the fight for dominance over the land continues. The race...
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Thursday, 13 December 2012
Tony and Anna Patton seem to be the perfect couple: good-looking, hard-working, happily married and new parents to gorgeous baby Jack....
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Thursday, 13 December 2012
Set in idyllic Byron Bay, Good News, Bad News follows freelance investigative journo Scout Davis, first introduced in Mad Men, Bad...
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Thursday, 13 December 2012
This suspense novel took me by surprise—not just the ending but how enjoyable it was! This is the second novel from...
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Thursday, 13 December 2012
When Jo Breen buys a property in the Byron Bay hinterland her motives are clear—to be closer to her ancestral land...
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Thursday, 13 December 2012
This funny, feel-good take on Asperger’s Syndrome has been getting huge international and local buzz. It’s the story of Don Tillman,...
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Thursday, 13 December 2012
Rhea Dempsey is a childbirth educator and one of Australia’s foremost thinkers on the topic of childbirth. In Birth with Confidence,...
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Thursday, 13 December 2012
In this moving memoir Australian writer Michelle Dicinoski charts her decision to marry her girlfriend Heather, and the complications that arise...
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Thursday, 13 December 2012
An urban 20-something Aussie girl gets on the booze in a San Francisco bar, chats up a soulful, handsome stranger, has...
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Thursday, 13 December 2012
Things I Didn’t Expect combines Monica Dux’s own bravely honest, warts-and-all pregnancy and birth stories with anecdotes, statistics and expert opinion...
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Thursday, 13 December 2012
Alex has spent her whole life seeing someone else—the other Alex—looking back at her from the mirror. But now things have...
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Thursday, 13 December 2012
I am in awe of Steph Bowe. Her second novel, All This Could End, is so confident and perceptive that it...
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Thursday, 13 December 2012
Mrs Melvino’s class is doing Antarctica for their special end-of-term assembly. As well as talking about it, they have built a...
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Thursday, 13 December 2012
Despite claiming to be an expert on matters of the heart, Aurora has never actually been kissed. She is determined her...
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Thursday, 13 December 2012
Sam Kinnison isn’t having the ideal high school experience. While he has good friends and gets good marks, he is also...
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Thursday, 13 December 2012
Kate Constable’s latest novel has much in common with her CBCA award-winner Crow Country, but unfortunately fails to meet the same...
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Thursday, 13 December 2012
Award-winning New Zealand writer Karen Healey’s third YA novel, When We Wake, is a taut drama set in an unnervingly realistic...
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Thursday, 13 December 2012
Murdered girls washed up on picture-postcard Tassie beaches. You could joke about not telling Tourism Tasmania, but sadly this novel takes...
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Tuesday, 30 October 2012
Brought to you by the editor of Cleo, Be Careful What You Wish For is standard chick-lit with pretty much everything...
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Tuesday, 30 October 2012
This debut novel is set in a suburb called Success; here the protagonists Harry and Louisa are floundering. This middle-aged couple...
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Tuesday, 30 October 2012
Told through the eyes of a Punjabi Sikh family and set in Singapore between the 1970s and the 1990s, this bold...
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Tuesday, 30 October 2012
We first meet the hero of Rough Diamond on a dark and wet Melbourne evening. Erica Jewell literally falls over Jack...
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Tuesday, 30 October 2012
Strikeforce Lightning is exactly what you’d expect from the title—a military/espionage thriller in the vein of fellow Australians James Phelan and...
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Tuesday, 30 October 2012
‘I was the binge-drinking health reporter. During the week, I wrote about Australia’s booze-soaked culture. At the weekends, I wrote myself...
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Tuesday, 30 October 2012
Alongside Rubinstein and Horowitz, William Kapell was widely considered one of the three greatest pianists of his time. Kapell died in...
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Tuesday, 30 October 2012
Best known for his book Raising Boys, psychologist Steve Biddulph has written a companion piece, motivated in part by his belief...
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Tuesday, 30 October 2012
Game Over and Hunter and Collector are the first two titles in a new thriller series for children aged seven and...
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Tuesday, 30 October 2012
Freia Lockhart’s Summer of Awful is the follow-up to Aimee Said’s delightful teen novel Finding Freia Lockhart, though it can be...
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Tuesday, 30 October 2012
Allie feels like an outsider at her new school on Norfolk Island. There’s only one person she looks forward to seeing—the...
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Tuesday, 30 October 2012
The Romance Diaries is a fun, fast-paced and modern read for lovers of the Clueless style of Jane Austen updates. In...
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Tuesday, 30 October 2012
The Holiday Murders is a new crime novel from Robert Gott, author of the ‘William Power’ crime novels as well as many...
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Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Join Ruby (and her rubber duck) as she learns to swim. Ruby uses goggles, floaties and flippers, learning to float, kick,...
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Monday, 15 October 2012
When Eve Nicholls inherits her mother’s property after storming out many years earlier, she is not prepared for the flood of...
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Monday, 15 October 2012
Australian novelist and journalist Caroline Overington writes the kind of fiction that combines domestic drama with topical social issues. Her latest...
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Monday, 15 October 2012
Quintana of Charyn is the third and final book in the Lumatere Chronicles, following on from the very successful Finnikin of...
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Monday, 15 October 2012
Tom and Tilly is a testament to the power of imagination. A boy and his teddy bear go on a grand...
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Friday, 12 October 2012
Jane Austen seems to have had a real renaissance lately; we have seen zombies and sea monsters invade her books, and...
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Thursday, 11 October 2012
Cuckoo is a little bird who doesn’t quite fit in or, more particularly, no matter how many ways he tries saying...
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Thursday, 11 October 2012
The Dog on the Tuckerbox brings to life one of Australia’s most iconic stories about the mateship and hardship experienced by...
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Thursday, 11 October 2012
When you think of the word ‘grommet’ (a young and/or inexperienced surfer), a sprightly grandma doesn’t exactly come to mind, and...
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Thursday, 11 October 2012
Prolific author Catherine Jinks is back with a brand new series, ‘City of Orphans’. The first book, A Very Unusual Pursuit,...
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Thursday, 11 October 2012
It’s a warm, cloudless day on the Gold Coast when elite runner Dom Silvagni turns 15. On his routine morning run,...
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Thursday, 11 October 2012
Escape from Cockatoo Island is the latest offering in the ‘My Australian Story’ series. Olivia doesn’t think that she’s a bad...
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Thursday, 11 October 2012
The Omega Squad continues the popular ‘Battle Boy’ series. Now 13, Napoleon Augustus Smythe is a Battle Agent, part of the...
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Thursday, 11 October 2012
Marcus is a great warrior—a dragonslayer! At least, he is online. Gaming is the one place he feels at home since...
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Thursday, 11 October 2012
At some point most of us poke around in the garden for signs that dinosaurs used to roam our backyards—the fantasy...
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Wednesday, 10 October 2012
The Skeleton Key is the third instalment in the ‘Pandora English’ series—paranormal adventure stories interwoven with elements of mythology and populated...
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Wednesday, 10 October 2012
This is not a light-hearted story about a woman’s foray into the world of illicit sex. What begins as a vibrant...
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Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Some mystery novels ease into the story, and others just thrust you into the middle of everything and let you sort...
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Wednesday, 10 October 2012
This broad collection of migration stories is an example of a good idea backed up by an excellent execution. Many of...
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Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Karen Andrews blogs at miscmum.com and previously edited and published a collection of writing from blogs, Miscellaneous Voices. Crying in the...
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Friday, 5 October 2012
I jumped at the chance to review this, the second of Judith Lucy’s memoirs. I found her first go at the...
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Thursday, 4 October 2012
Good business writing gives you the facts and the figures, the movers and shakers, the inside scoop. And it helps you...
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Friday, 28 September 2012
Kitty works for glamorous movie star Willow, as her nanny. Willow is married to dead-beat-dad/rock star Kerr. As Willow begins to...
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Friday, 28 September 2012
The Voiceless Anthology has been born out of the Voiceless Writing Prize, which awards $15,000 to the writer of the best...
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Monday, 3 September 2012
Eric Vale has a terrible nickname: Epic Fail. And he can't seem to shake it. Every little thing Eric does wrong—from...
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Monday, 3 September 2012
Phillip Adams has entertained listeners to Radio National’s Late Night Live for more than two decades. In this book of reminiscences...
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Monday, 3 September 2012
Following his successful books 1788 and The Gold Rush, David Hill’s The Great Race traces the little-known story of the competition...
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Monday, 3 September 2012
Australia didn’t just send its men to fight in the First World War. Tens of thousands of horses went too. The...
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Monday, 3 September 2012
This book is part true crime, part memoir, part biography and part fiction, with touches of gentle humour. All up it...
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Monday, 3 September 2012
Margaret Mahy's recent death is a great sadness for her many fans worldwide. Twice winner of the Carnegie Medal and recipient...
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Monday, 3 September 2012
Ruby Red Shoes is a white hare, so named after footwear given to her by her grandma when she was...
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Monday, 3 September 2012
This book reveals two of life’s certainties: one, that Gideon Haigh is an outstanding writer, and two, that Shane Warne’s tabloid-fodder...
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Monday, 3 September 2012
Damaged in Transit is a collection of short stories from Melbourne writer Mary Manning. It charts familiar territory—journeys on trams, along...
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Wednesday, 29 August 2012
Chasing the Sun is a story about vampires who definitely don’t sparkle. Rather, they take drugs, wear sunglasses at night and...
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Saturday, 18 August 2012
On the Farm: Our Holiday with Uncle Kev is the latest addition to Roland Harvey’s successful series of picture books, and...
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Saturday, 18 August 2012
Eddie loves penguins. He loves them more than anything in the world. He has toy penguins, books on penguins, penguin posters,...
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Saturday, 18 August 2012
This is the final book in A A Bell’s ‘Mira Chambers’ trilogy, following Diamond Eyes and Hindsight. It’s written in the...
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Saturday, 18 August 2012
Lola Bensky, a character often referred to as Lily Brett’s alter ego, has appeared in Brett’s short fiction, as well her...
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Saturday, 18 August 2012
This is a heartfelt and moving collection of short stories that cuts right to the emotional centre of everyday life. With...
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Saturday, 18 August 2012
Popular fiction author Monica McInerney needs no introduction to the Australian book trade. In her new novel, Ella, an editor, is...
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Saturday, 18 August 2012
Better than Fiction is a brilliant collection of travel stories, written especially for Lonely Planet, which spans the globe in the...
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Saturday, 18 August 2012
I won’t deny that I wondered whether it was necessary to publish another book about cricket when Malcolm Knox’s Bradman’s War...
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Saturday, 18 August 2012
Imagine you are sitting in a cosy lounge room somewhere, chatting with literary journalist Ramona Koval about her life and reading...
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Saturday, 18 August 2012
Canberra is a city that spawns much small-time mythology in the national psyche. Between the fat-cat pollies, the overpaid public servants,...
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Saturday, 18 August 2012
The ABC TV series Collectors was a must-watch in our household for many years, and collectors all over the country mourned...
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Saturday, 18 August 2012
I’ve always liked Robert Drewe’s writing. He writes with humility and clarity, in spare, uncomplicated prose, with a storyteller’s gift in...
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Saturday, 18 August 2012
Graeme Base needs no introduction. His books, including Animalia and The Eleventh Hour, are firmly established as classics. His latest book...
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Saturday, 18 August 2012
The Moon Shines Out of the Dark is a moving collaboration between Stephanie Dowrick and Anne Spudvilas. It combines evocative illustrations...
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Saturday, 18 August 2012
This ‘little story about big things’ explores the cycle of life and death, the turn of seasons, survival of the fittest...
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Saturday, 18 August 2012
Figaro and Rumba are a Cuban dog and cat who live together. Rumba, the cat, is an ex-musician whose whole family...
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Saturday, 18 August 2012
The latest chapter book from New Zealand-born author Brian Falkner continues in the same adventurous vein as his last, the delightful...
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Saturday, 18 August 2012
Black Spring is a dark, gothic tale inspired by Wuthering Heights. In this fantasy version of 19th-century England, some people are...
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Saturday, 18 August 2012
Maureen McCarthy is one of Australia’s best-loved YA authors, and her latest novel The Convent tells a compelling coming-of-age story about...
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Saturday, 18 August 2012
Richard Newsome’s ‘Billionaire’ series continues at the same frenetic pace that worked so well in previous books. In The Crystal Code,...
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Saturday, 18 August 2012
Fifteen-year-old Elly Pickering’s life just got a whole lot more exciting. Not only is her number-one crush, teen sensation Jake Blake,...
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Friday, 17 August 2012
Stephanie Laurens' readers will be familiar with Lord Julian, or Roscoe, the hero of her latest Regency-set romance. However, they will...
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Friday, 17 August 2012
Seven Nights in a Rogue's Bed kicks off a new series by Anna Campbell, who has signed with a new publisher,...
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Friday, 17 August 2012
With the recent popularity of shows such as Dumb, Drunk and Racist and Go Back to Where You Came From, Tim...
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Friday, 17 August 2012
This stand-alone first chapter book from prolific author Pamela Freeman opens with a whip-cracking governess and a sprightly princess who isn't...
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Friday, 17 August 2012
Although Gramps keeps himself active and busy, he’s lonely. He misses his wife Rose, and his family thinks he should get...
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Thursday, 16 August 2012
Madeleine lives in Cambridge, England, The World, where she is homeschooled along with her two friends Belle and Jack. One day...
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Thursday, 16 August 2012
Questions of Travel is the fourth novel from Michelle de Kretser, who, I think it’s safe to say, is no longer...
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Thursday, 16 August 2012
I was eager to read The Conversation by David Brooks. The idea of the novel had me salivating long before I...
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Thursday, 2 August 2012
Let’s face it, economics is not the sexiest social science going around. If I were to spout the terms ‘negative externality’...
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Friday, 20 July 2012
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Television audiences have been inundated with programs that attempt to depict the medical profession. Brisbane nurse Kristy Chambers’ memoir Get Well...
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Wednesday, 11 July 2012
The Rise of the Fifth Estate is a well-researched and engaging look at the world of social media and blogging in...
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Monday, 2 July 2012
Thai-riffic! introduced readers to Albert ‘Lengy’ Lengviriyakul, a Thai-Australian boy whose parents run a Thai restaurant. Unfortunately, Lengy doesn’t particularly like...
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Monday, 2 July 2012
A girl is found in a car wreck, injured and suffering from amnesia. Nearby lie signs of a violent and bloody...
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Monday, 2 July 2012
Ten-year-old Lizzie doesn’t mean to cause trouble, and always has the best intentions. So why is she being homeschooled by her...
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Monday, 2 July 2012
Creepy & Maud is the story of an unusual romance conducted through glass. Creepy, the eloquent boy next door, leaves notes stuck...
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Monday, 2 July 2012
Clementine Rose is just a baby when she is delivered to Lady Clarissa Appleby of Penberthy House in a breadbasket full...
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Monday, 2 July 2012
Many readers will recall The River, Chris Hammer’s award-winning study of the Murray-Darling river system. This new work is much larger...
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Monday, 2 July 2012
Charlie Ferns has grown up in the shadow of his identical twin brother William, or Whisky, as he is known after...
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Monday, 2 July 2012
Murray Bail has been masterfully reinventing his writing for more than 30 years in short fiction, novels, criticism and art history....
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Monday, 2 July 2012
This is the second collection of short stories from Melbourne writer (and bookseller) A S Patric, following last year’s The Rattler...
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Monday, 2 July 2012
When Iris, an elderly widow, receives an invitation to a reunion in France, where she worked as a nurse during the...
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Monday, 2 July 2012
In The Happiness Show, Australian comedian and writer Catherine Deveny turns her hand to fiction for the first time. The result...
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Monday, 2 July 2012
Judd Bell is a NASA astronaut who has lost his mojo. Ever since his best friend was killed in a shuttle...
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Monday, 2 July 2012
Jacqueline Wright won the TAG Hungerford Award for most promising unpublished manuscript in 2010 and Red Dirt Talking is the result....
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Wednesday, 27 June 2012
South Sudanese refugee Majok Tulba’s brutal, poetic debut views the monstrousness of war through the innocent eyes of a young boy....
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Friday, 15 June 2012
The characters who inhabit Andy Kissane’s engaging short stories are recognisably Australian and contemporary, as are the situations they find themselves...
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Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Callum is stoked with the fancy new wheelchair that his gran Rose has bought him for his birthday. He’s even more...
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Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Love never runs smoothly, as we all know, and love is blind. Shy Mousey Brown is in love, but his beloved...
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Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Louis Nowra’s young-adult novel recreates a captivating time in Tasmanian history through the eyes of a unique narrator—a girl quite literally...
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Wednesday, 13 June 2012
In any move to a new city, familiarity takes time. The links between people and places aren’t always immediately apparent, and...
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Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Continuing the story of Felix from Once, Then and Now, After follows the events of Then. The war is still going...
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Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Benjamin Law embarks on a wild ride through Asia to investigate queer culture in Gaysia. In Indonesia he meets the moneyboys...
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Wednesday, 13 June 2012
This is no grey nomad’s guide to the red centre. In NewSouth’s latest city book, author Eleanor Hogan writes about her...
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Wednesday, 13 June 2012
What is a man and how does a boy become one? Jack Muir was searching for the answers to these questions...
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Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Raised in a fundamentalist family of Pentecostals, where sin is an ever-prevalent danger, 13-year-old Ruth must reconcile her faith with reality...
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Wednesday, 13 June 2012
The Oldest Song in the World is quite an incredible book. The story, with its mix of themes, is full of...
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Wednesday, 13 June 2012
We first meet the Westaway family through the character of young Kip, brother to Francis and Connie, son to a grieving...
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Wednesday, 13 June 2012
The Midnight Promise crashes straight into Temple, Corris and Chandler territory—just like the blurb promises. It involves a Melbourne PI, interlinked...
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Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Andrew Croome’s debut novel, Document Z, looked at the world of Australian diplomats during the Cold War using the prism of...
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Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Winner of the 2011 David Unaipon Award for Indigenous Writing, this is a remarkable novel. Based on the author’s mother’s recollections...
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Wednesday, 13 June 2012
This intriguing novel takes you from a small coastal Queensland town to the sulphur minefields of Sicily. There are elements of...
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Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Fishing for Tigers is Emily Maguire’s fourth novel, and a departure from the darkness of the most recent Smoke in the...
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Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Sixteen-year-old Sadie is growing tired of spending her summer days lounging on the beach with her tedious cousins and her wants-to-be-more-than-a-friend...
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Wednesday, 13 June 2012
I don’t know whether it was icy weather or the sheer emotional tension of the story, but the night I stayed...
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Wednesday, 13 June 2012
For my generation, answers to the question ‘Am I normal?’ and the unspoken mysteries of adolescence often had to be ferreted...
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Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Readers looking to move on from the Wimpy Kid and challenge themselves more forcefully with the written word will enjoy Anna...
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Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Australians of all ages ought to be aware of Danny Katz by now. If you have not heard the name before,...
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Wednesday, 13 June 2012
This amazing book demands several readings. Although the text is a simple poem, the illustrations are so densely layered that the...
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Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Nick Earls and Terry Whidborne’s new book for children brings to life the past by indulging the word nerd in all...
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Friday, 8 June 2012
L A Larkin’s debut The Genesis Flaw was a fabulous eco-thriller with tight storytelling that stretched—but didn’t break—credibility, so readers will...
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Friday, 8 June 2012
Hannah & Emil is the third novel from Vogel Literary Award winner Belinda Castles, and is inspired by the events of...
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Friday, 8 June 2012
Jacinta Halloran’s debut novel Dissection, about a female GP embroiled in a negligence suit and the personal devastation that followed, was...
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Friday, 8 June 2012
Duncan Lay’s latest book offers something for new and old readers. While it’s set in the same world as his previous...
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Friday, 8 June 2012
ABC TV’s Michael Brissenden has written a sharply observed and hugely entertaining collection of essays on contemporary American life. He covers...
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Friday, 8 June 2012
The rise of commercial cinema in Australia and the nascence of our independent film industry provide a fascinating backdrop to this...
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Friday, 8 June 2012
Andrew Ford is a composer, critic and broadcaster—he presents The Music Show on ABC Radio National—whose knowledge of and passion for...
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Friday, 8 June 2012
In his investigation into the state of censorship in Australia, author and Overland editor Jeff Sparrow discusses anti-porn activists Gail Dines...
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Thursday, 31 May 2012
In 2005 Kate Grenville wrote the bestselling and multiaward-winning The Secret River. She followed it up with The Lieutenant, a novel...
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Thursday, 31 May 2012
Fans of Alex Miller’s Lovesong will be pleased to find another love story at the heart of Autumn Laing. As the...
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Thursday, 31 May 2012
Janette Turner Hospital’s anthology of stories gathers together a striking array of disturbed and disturbing characters—the forthright daughter of a cult...
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Friday, 4 May 2012
It’s been 16 years since Gillian Mears published her last novel, The Grass Sister, which won the regional Commonwealth Prize for...
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Friday, 4 May 2012
Given the striking intelligence and originality that Anna Funder brought to the subject of the East German Secret Police in her...
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Friday, 4 May 2012
In the final volume of Frank Moorhouse’s ‘Edith Trilogy’, former League of Nations officer Edith Campbell Berry has fallen on hard...
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Friday, 4 May 2012
The wild coast of Tasmania provides a moody backdrop for this story of two young boys. Harry and his older brother...
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Friday, 27 April 2012
Each day Tessa and Zachary travel to school in a ‘shiny machine’ that is ‘smooth and swift and splendiferous’. It’s the...
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Friday, 27 April 2012
Fashion-obsessed Jenna Bookallil-Brown thought a two-month exchange trip to New York would be the perfect adventure, but one museum trip too...
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Friday, 27 April 2012
Jake, Pongo, Veejay and Ben are about as nerdy as they come. In fact they are so nerdy that the most...
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Friday, 27 April 2012
Welcome to Normal is the title of the opening story in a new collection of short stories by Nick Earls. Two...
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Friday, 27 April 2012
What is a man and how does a boy become one? Jack Muir was searching for the answers to these questions...
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Friday, 27 April 2012
Darkness on the Edge of Town is a fast-paced and tense novel. Vincent, a 40-year-old single dad, helps a young woman,...
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Friday, 27 April 2012
This foray into children's fiction by the historical author Craig Cormick has got everything: time travel, battle scenes, zombies, Napoleon, ninjas...
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Friday, 27 April 2012
Roberta ‘Bertie’ Lightfoot suffers from polio as a child, and is helped through it by her tough-minded mother, along with the...
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Friday, 27 April 2012
Helene Young is the recent winner of the Australian Romance Readers Association Favourite Romantic Suspense Award for her second novel Shattered...
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Friday, 27 April 2012
I love having Christopher Koch in Fullers Bookshop to talk about his books: there are not many authors I can introduce...
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Friday, 27 April 2012
This novel, written in verse, tells the story of Class 6A of a primary school in a small country town. The...
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Friday, 27 April 2012
There is no disguising the genre of well-know children’s author Randa Abdel-Fattah’s first adult novel. The cleverly named No Sex in...
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Friday, 27 April 2012
The Oldest Song in the World is quite an incredible book. The story, with its mix of themes, is full of...
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Friday, 27 April 2012
This fun, quirky Australiana title from artist Tai Snaith explores the family lives of 15 native animals. With a look and...
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Friday, 27 April 2012
Hugo Mars, our brash young narrator, and his father, a principled researcher for author Jules Verne, live a privileged life in...
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Monday, 23 April 2012
In the wake of Twilight and the paranormal romance that followed, it’s nice to see a grittier style of paranormal fiction...
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Monday, 23 April 2012
Worried about the world that her two-year-old daughter has inherited, Dilvin Yasa decided to write a guide to help her child...
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Monday, 23 April 2012
This innovative approach to careers counselling functions as a personal workbook for young people who are getting ready to start out...
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Monday, 23 April 2012
Individually, Justine Larbalestier and Sarah Rees Brennan have produced some of the wittiest, sharpest youngadult fiction on the market. Working together,...
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Monday, 23 April 2012
Seventeen-year-old Scarlett loves being the centre of attention. A ballet dancer at the National Academy of Performing Arts, Scarlett works hard...
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Monday, 23 April 2012
Baran is used to hardship. There isn’t a day that goes by in his isolated mountain village in which he isn’t...
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Monday, 23 April 2012
Zara is trapped in a coma following a tragic accident. She can hear all that is going on around her but...
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Monday, 23 April 2012
It’s Germany, 1939, six months after the Kristallnacht attacks on the Jews, but life for 11-year old Georg is full of...
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Monday, 23 April 2012
Dorrie has always lived at Ned’s Point with her grandfather, where she relishes the simple things: barefoot wanderings with her cat...
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Monday, 23 April 2012
The Forgotten Pearl is the latest historical fiction offering from Belinda Murrell (The Ruby Talisman, The Ivory Rose). Poppy is an...
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Monday, 23 April 2012
When Loa’s childhood friend marries a stranger from another tribe, he is frustrated and angry at being stuck between childhood and...
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Monday, 23 April 2012
Arkie Sparkle knows what she wants to be: a treasure hunter just like her globetrotting parents. So when her mum and...
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Monday, 23 April 2012
As well as being one of the inaugural Australian children’s laureates and an ambassador for the National Year of Reading, Alison...
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Monday, 23 April 2012
This delightful picture book from first-time author Emma Wood and award-winning illustrator Freya Blackwood tells a charming and poignant story about...
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Monday, 23 April 2012
The Red Wheelbarrow is a picture book with a difference; there are no words and there are two different stories depending...
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Monday, 23 April 2012
Frank Bongiorno’s The Sex Lives of Australians: A History is an important and fascinating account of Australia’s past through the lens...
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Monday, 23 April 2012
Dorothy Forrest is seven years old when the Forrests move from New York, with dwindling money, to New Zealand. At the...
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Monday, 23 April 2012
Reviewing a memoir with this much disturbing content is challenging, but I highly recommend this book for the strength and courage...
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Monday, 23 April 2012
Australia’s relationship with China is at the forefront of public discourse yet it is portrayed in wildly different ways. On the...
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Monday, 23 April 2012
Peta refers to life before the couch and after the couch. Before the couch she is happily, if not blandly, married...
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Monday, 23 April 2012
In the first book in her ‘Children of the Black Sun’ series, Jo Spurrier manages to avoid the traps that many...
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Monday, 23 April 2012
In Shadows, Gaby is recovering in Pandanus Beach from a car accident that left her severely injured and killed her twin...
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Monday, 23 April 2012
A sprawling saga, The Daughters of Mars is based on journals kept by Australian nursing sisters who laboured in claustrophobic hospital...
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Monday, 23 April 2012
Deborah Forster’s last novel was the Miles Franklin Award-shortlisted The Book of Emmett. It’s immediately evident that Forster is a writer...
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Monday, 23 April 2012
It’s January 1933 and in a warehouse in Melbourne, two policemen start their investigation into the murder of businessman and war...
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Monday, 23 April 2012
In the not-too-distant future, the world is on the brink, with unchecked pollution, environmental catastrophes, collapsing food supplies, debt-ridden Western governments...
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Monday, 23 April 2012
What a challenging novel this is. Readers familiar with the author, via his prize-winning collection of autobiographical essays, The Idea of...
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Monday, 23 April 2012
Aden wakes up in a blood-filled bathtub in a strange place. He knows he has killed himself, but remembers only fragments...
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Monday, 23 April 2012
Australian novelist and poet Jennifer Mills’ first collection of short stories offers an evocative and thought-provoking exploration of the human condition...
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Monday, 23 April 2012
You may know of Susan Johnson for her brave memoir of motherhood, A Better Woman, or her novel about writer Charmian...
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Monday, 23 April 2012
Fifteen-year-old Maddy has synaesthesia, which means her senses are cross-wired and she sees sounds and tastes colour. As an artist, it...
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Thursday, 29 March 2012
Life for Abbie revolves around three things: the ocean, her art, and the moody and unattainable Kane. But from the moment...
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Thursday, 29 March 2012
A boy wanders into a forest of ‘ancient, primal’ beech trees. He is both a child with a toy sword, and...
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Thursday, 29 March 2012
The Betrayal—Y A Erskine’s second crime novel following The Brotherband—will reel you in and deliver a series of shocks you never...
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Thursday, 29 March 2012
The Architecture of Song is the second foray into adult fiction for Gary Crew, a well-known and prolific author of YA,...
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Thursday, 29 March 2012
Is this a memoir, a collection of erudite essays punctuated by good recipes or a literary cookbook? Whatever section you decide...
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Wednesday, 28 March 2012
In The Wedding Season, a Sri Lanka-born, Australia-raised woman tries to find true love while avoiding her mother’s matchmaking. Shani has...
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
The words ‘hilarious’ and ‘cancer’ aren’t an obvious match, but in Jesse Andrews’ debut YA novel, the two meet for a...
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
This is a great new series by Indigenous authors for beginner readers. Initiated by artist and writer Sally Morgan and created...
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Libby Gleeson’s latest book for junior readers is a sophisticated and atmospheric amnesiac mystery revolving around the question: if one day...
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Pollo di Nozi, supersleuth and investigative reporter-in-training, is on a case. Aided willingly by her ever faithful, if a little sheepy,...
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
YA author Lili Wilkinson is well known for her insightful views into the teenage mind, with books such as The (Not...
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Family secrets. A cursed house. Things that go bump in the night ... Freya Kramer doesn’t believe in ghosts. Not really....
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Award-winning YA novelist Julia Lawrinson’s latest book, Losing It, is a sassy coming-of-age tale with a uniquely Australian twist: in a...
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Fans of ‘The Hunger Games’ will lap up this debut YA trilogy from young Melbourne author Rose Foster. Kirra Hayward, 16,...
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Yate Elliot has a secret—an even darker side to her already Goth persona—that has landed her in boarding school. Bound by...
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
One of the winners of the inaugural black & write! kuril dhagun Indigenous Writing Fellowship, Grace beside Me is a YA...
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Khemri is a prince of the empire, which governs the staggeringly huge population of humanity scattered across the galaxy. Taken from...
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
The Children of the King challenges stereotypes of war from the first page, which opens, not with a sombre and terror-filled...
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Libby Hathorn and Bruce Whatley have teamed up to tackle very difficult subject matter in an inventive and evocative way in...
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Andy Reid always thought his parents were bakers. He was wrong, as he discovers after a horrifying accident. His parents are...
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Sam and Tara are best friends. Sam has an artistic bent and loves working with his hands, while Tara is passionate...
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
In 1951 at the age of 16, Ian Parkes decided to leave his Perth home to work on a sheep station....
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
In her Gold Coast home in 1981, with the aid of a stuffed rabbit named Andy Gibb and numerous Countdown viewings,...
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
We have had histories of salt, porcelain and even double-entry bookkeeping—so why not the office? It is an integral part of...
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
A History of Books is in many ways a continuation of the musings of Gerald Murnane’s 2009 book Barley Patch. It’s...
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
For many Australians, Stephanie Alexander is a household name synonymous with her bestselling foodie's bible, The Cook’s Companion. In her long...
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
In 1961, Stanley Milgram, an ambitious 27-year-old associate professor of psychology at Yale University, conducted a series of controversial experiments designed...
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Despite the present-day profusion of literary magazines and outstanding short-story collections, the 21st century does not seem to be as hospitable...
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
We All Fall Down is the second novel from Peter Barry, author of I Hate Martin Amis et al. Where Amis...
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
The Tide family has fallen apart. It’s been 10 years since a sudden tragedy transformed the lives of Helen, Richard, Dora...
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Diana is an Australian aid worker, writing reports for a disaster relief organisation bereft of the kind of disaster that grabs...
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
It was a pleasure to read this debut from Australian film and television writer and producer Tony Cavanaugh. Promise is a...
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
The mountain, the dominant image of Drusilla Modjeska’s ambitious new novel, is an imaginary peak in Australia’s nearest neighbour, Papua New...
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
The Mothers’ Group provides enough ‘aha’ moments of recognition to make even the most sleep-deprived mum smile. And I should know:...
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
The Light between Oceans is the debut novel from Australian author M L Stedmen (now living in the UK), which sparked...
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Floundering, the first novel from Melbourne-based writer Romy Ash, is a dark and lyrical tale of a family reunion that unfolds...
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Bronwyn Parry proves once again that crime is not just the provenance of cityscapes in her genuinely chilling third romantic suspense...
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Marko and his teammates are a small, secretive combat engineering unit, whose recreation leave on the planet Cygnus 5 is cut...
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Kate Forsyth’s love of language, history and storytelling is evident in Bitter Greens, a magnificent reworking of the fairytale Rapunzel. This...
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Monday, 19 March 2012
Lives is a collection of 40-odd loosely biographical pieces—some new, some previously published—from Australian author Peter Robb (Midnight in Sicily, M,...
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Monday, 19 March 2012
The last time Kieran saw his cousin Bon was two years ago when Bon and Aunt Renee crashed Kieran’s Dad’s birthday...
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Monday, 19 March 2012
Farmer John's tractor is kept safe and sound in the farm shed, never moving very much. But when the rain comes...
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Monday, 19 March 2012
Clementine loves her hare-brained, free-spirited aunty Stella, with whom she connects even more than with her own mother. To Clem, it...
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Monday, 19 March 2012
Playing House is a memoir from Melbourne writer Amy Choi which divides the author's adult life into three parts: her big...
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Monday, 19 March 2012
Patti Miller is a well-known author with one novel and four nonfiction books—including the popular guides for life writing, Writing Your...
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Monday, 19 March 2012
The provocatively titled Am I Black Enough For You? is prolific Wiradjuri author Anita Heiss’ response to the well-publicised Andrew Bolt...
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Monday, 19 March 2012
A picturesque Tasmanian coastal town provides the setting for this novel about family and secrets. Sadie Jeffreys and her teenage daughter...
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Friday, 16 March 2012
Preloved is the latest YA novel from author Shirley Marr and follows the life of slightly troubled teen Amy Lee. Amy...
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Friday, 16 March 2012
Something strange is happening in Cloud Town. Tree branches are causing havoc in the rabbits’ homes, and best friends Cornelia and...
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