Maddie in the Middle
Reviewed onYear Six can be a difficult time, especially when your lifelong best friend who has always been the other half of “The Rule of Two, since year two” suddenly seems …
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Out of Time
Reviewed onAt first, architect Joe Warton dismisses his momentary lapses in memory as stress-related. The first time he couldn’t remember where he parked his car, he had been running late to …
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Fabulous Lives
Reviewed onJoy for a reviewer is being able to both commend a book and recommend it to readers of any almost any predilection. Fabulous Lives is such a book. The diverse characters …
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Love Song
Reviewed onBeth Paterson never expected to see Charlie Campbell again after their teenage romance ended abruptly. In the ensuing decade, she has become a respected doctor in her hometown, and he …
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Matters of the Heart
Reviewed onIn this modern retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Fiona Palmer replaces the manor houses and gentry of England with sheep stations and wealthy landowners of the Australian outback. In Matters …
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Rogue
Reviewed onRogue is the phenomenal second novel in the duology that began with Hive. Teenaged Hayley has been ejected from her insular underwater world and is adrift in a vast ocean. …
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Blood in the Dust
Reviewed onSet in Victoria in 1853, Blood in the Dust is a fast-paced novel from the winner of the best unpublished manuscript category of the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. When …
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Devil’s Ballast
Reviewed onDevil’s Ballast is a meticulously researched and marvelously told tale based on the real-life story of 18th century pirate, Anne Bonny. At eighteen, Anne Bonny has already escaped a violent …
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Sibanda and the Rainbird
Reviewed onIf you like your crime in exotic locations and mixed with occasional encounters with lions and elephants, this is the book for you. Sibanda and the Rainbird is set in …
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We’ll Stand in that place and Other Stories
Reviewed onThis anthology features nineteen short stories selected from over 240 entries in the annual Margaret River Short Story Competition. The prize winning story, ‘We’ll Stand in That Place,’ by Kit …
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