06 February 2017
Gotham: Wisdom Tree - Novella #1
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Nick Earls has begun an ambitious project with his new writing. Gotham is the first story of five linked novellas, being released in May 2...
Dance, Bilby, Dance
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Little Bilby wants to dance. Everywhere he looks, something is dancing – leaves, ants, willy-willies, moths and emus. Even his shadow is d...
27 January 2017
Something Wonderful
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Sam is a dreamer; a free spirit with a curious mind. He is interested in everything around him to the point where he forgets his chores. He...
18 October 2016
We're All Going to Die
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'All living things are structured for death. It is an intrinsic part of us.’ If the title suggests that this is a morbid book, I ...
17 October 2016
The Fourteenth Summer of Angus Jack
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Angus Jack, his sister Martha and his almost always distracted father, the Prof, moved to Australia four years ago to start a new life. T...
30 July 2016
Don't Think About Purple Elephants
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Sophie doesn’t worry during the day, when there are friends and family to play with and new things to learn at school. She worries at ni...
18 June 2016
Gotham: WIsdom Tree
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Nick Earls has begun an ambitious project with his new writing. Gotham is the first story of five linked novellas, being released in May 20...
01 May 2016
Choosing Xaverique
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From the very first paragraph, the story reaches out to pull the reader in. I died this morning. At exactly 8.17 am my heart stopped ...
29 March 2016
Good + Simple
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In this hefty (350 page) book, these two sisters have developed over 140 recipes which they say make use of ingredients that are readily a...
04 December 2015
The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
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This powerful and riveting cross-over novel is not for the faint-hearted. It begins: ‘I am a blood-soaked girl. Before me, a body. Pulped...
02 December 2015
The Looking Glass House
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Readers who love Alice in Wonderland will delight in this fictional telling of the relationship between young Alice Liddell and Christ Chur...
13 November 2015
What We Left Behind
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For Gretchen and Toni (also known as T), it was love at first sight. The only gay couple in high school, they were popular and happy, abs...
02 November 2015
Resonate
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Are you having problems being heard? Does your voice come out in a whisper when you’re trying to convey an important message? Help is at ...
04 September 2015
Why Did They Do it? Inside the Minds of Australia’s Most Unlikely Killers
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Here’s a terrific book for readers who are interested in analysing personalities and their motives, especially where a crime is involved. ...
Musing From the Inner Duck
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Michael Leunig’s new creation has 138 cartoons that illustrate the many forms of Man’s existential angst, the cause of it, and the simple ...
20 August 2015
The Ratcatcher's Daughter
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In Brisbane, early 1900, a new disease has broken out. Thirteen year old Issy, a strong-minded and courageous girl, goes to work as a mai...
07 August 2015
The Warlock's Child Series
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Book 1 The Burning Sea, Book 2 Dragonfall Mountain, Book 3 The Dragon Claw. It’s not very often I start a review with the front cover bu...
27 July 2015
Arkie's Pilgrimage To the Next Big Thing
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Arkie, a former (and now failed) professional trendspotter, is in Byron Bay, having recently lost her partner and considering suicide. ...
26 July 2015
Night Bird
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‘People should be careful about the stories they spread’, Twig Fowler says about the rumour that a mysterious creature is living in Sidwell...
08 July 2015
An Aussie Year
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An Aussie Year is a fun-filled peek into the lives of five young children, and Warrigal, the dog. Each child has a different cultural ba...
The Eye of the Sheep
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The Eye of the Sheep , the second adult book by Sofie Laguna, is the winner of the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary Award. It is a magnificen...
24 June 2015
Skin: Song of the Kendra
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I was only half a chapter into Skin when I started looking for signs of a sequel. I checked the media release. I checked the author notes. ...
Unsolved Australia
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To have a loved one go missing must be one of the worse tragedies that could befall a family or friend; yet in Australia 38,000 people go m...
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