Where the Line Breaks
Reviewed onMatthew Denton is convinced that war hero Lieutenant Alan Lewis VC of the 10th Light Horse Brigade is Australia’s most famous World War I poet, The Unknown Digger. Desperate to …
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Twice Not Shy: One Hundred Short Short Stories
Reviewed onThis is a terrific book, regardless of whether you are already a fan of flash fiction or a reader keen to explore a new genre. Some of the author’s names …
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Spring Clean for the Peach Queen
Reviewed onFollowing a night out partying, which leaves her boyfriend dead and her acting career in tatters, Lottie Bentz escapes the media spotlight by returning to her hometown of Bonnievale. When …
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The Little Boat on Trusting Lane
Reviewed onRichard lives on a dilapidated boat that serves as an alternative healing centre, which he runs with his disciple-assistants, Finn and August. Marooned in existential despair over mounting repair bills …
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The Madwoman’s Coat
Reviewed onIn The Madwoman’s Coat Ian Reid consolidates his reputation for absorbing historical fiction. Reid draws imaginatively from the history of late nineteenth-century England and Western Australia, and from old Icelandic …
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Pushing Back
Reviewed onPushing Back comprises thirty-seven gems of fiction by John Kinsella; one of Australia’s literary treasures. While characters, eras, settings, and forms vary, the stories throughout examine human behaviour with unsettling, …
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Everyday Madness
Reviewed onWhen the garrulous and slightly annoying Gloria stops eating, sleeping, and talking, her recently-made-redundant salesman husband Bernard does not know what to do. Their decades-long marriage has produced a son, …
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The Last Bookshop
Reviewed onThe Last Bookshop is a tale for all those who love books and reading, with an added dash of romance. Cait Copper is the twenty-something owner of city-based bookshop Book …
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The Sensation
Reviewed onIn this follow up to The Subjugate, The Sensation further fleshes out a near-future San Francisco: think Silicon Valley gone feral. The technology for neural implants has been hacked and …
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Beneath the Trees
Reviewed onAnother ripping yarn from Cristy Burne sure to delight fans of her previous adventure stories To the Lighthouse and Off the Track, all published by Fremantle Press. When four young …
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