Three Can Keep A Secret
June 2023 Book of the MonthNight Parrot publishers Linda Martin and Laura Keenan have done it again with their third flash-fiction anthology, Three Can Keep A Secret. ‘It’ in this case is a diverse, compelling and surprising ...
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Tiny Uncertain Miracles
November 2022 Book of the MonthMarick is a late-to-God chaplain whose pastoral services bleed into the overlap between god and science. He provides peace for those whose personal realities are fraught with pain, routinely ...
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The Ghost of Gracie Flynn
November 2022 Book of the MonthSummary: When university student Gracie Flynn dies in tragic circumstances, her three friends—Robyn, Cohen and Sam—deal with the aftermath in their own way. Instead of leaning on each other, they ...
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The Brink
August 2022 Book of the MonthIt’s November and 13 high school leavers – leaders, friends and hangers-on – hit the road, hell-bent on a week of wildness, of drinking and sex, of ditching the ...
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The Silence of Water
June 2022 Book of the MonthFan doesn’t want to go to Fremantle. But her mum has decided the family must move out west to look after a mysterious grandfather named Edwin Salt. Edwin mostly hides ...
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The Sawdust House
April 2022 Book of the MonthBook summary The Sawdust House meets James ‘Yankee’ Sullivan as he is held in a San Francisco jail in 1856 by the Committee of Vigilance, which aims to extradite Australian ...
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How To Shame The Devil
January 2022 Book of the MonthArthur Lambkin (better known as Art) has newly been confined to the Ashton Grange nursing home where he fights a constant battle against Parkinson’s disease and old age. Though ...
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Driving Stevie Fracasso
December 2021 Book of the MonthNew York City, 2001. A few weeks before the tragic events of 9/11, the city that never sleeps is buzzing with hectic life, and music journalist Rick McLennan is ...
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Skimming Stones
November 2021 Book of the MonthGrace is working as a paediatric oncology nurse when a chance meeting reconnects her with childhood friend, Nate. She is drawn into an affair with him even as she ...
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Flock: First Nations Stories Then and Now
October 2021 Book of the MonthFlock: First Nations Stories Then and Now, curated and introduced by award-winning author Ellen van Neerven, brings together twenty different short stories from First Nations writers. The collection features ...
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