I am that Unicorn
Reviewed onMy paperback copy of I am that Unicorn came with a letter from the Arozak Salam that was written in pink glitter gel pen. It invited the Writing WA team …
Read moreLove, Dad: Confessions of an Anxious Father
Reviewed onIt begins, as all my favourite memoirs do, with vulnerability. Love, Dad: Confessions of an Anxious Father is the second full-length publication by West Australian author Laurie Steed, following his …
Read moreThis (strikingly pink!) book is a collection of personal stories about living with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, or OCD. Whether you pick it up hoping to be enlightened, educated or even, …
Read moreSearching for Pearls
Reviewed onThe desire for great change by “going on a journey and becoming a man” is the undertow of writer Benjamin Simon O’Neill’s immersive memoir Searching for Pearls, which charts his …
Read moreOutback Teacher
Reviewed onSally Gare’s memoir opens with her arrival in 1956 at the Forrest River Mission School in far north Western Australia. She lives in a ‘modern’ fibro house and teaches Oombulgurri …
Read moreThirty-two years ago, Wendy Davis was attacked by the man who would go on to become one of WA’s most notorious serial killers. In the immediate wake of her pain, …
Read moreHomesick: Taiwan
Reviewed onHomesick by Yu-Ying Chuang is a wonderful collection of musings about the meaning of home interspersed with recipes and photographs. Chuang shares candidly the stories of his childhood and how …
Read moreIn Second Innings: On Men, Mental Health and Cricket, former A-grade district cricketer Barry Nicholls walks us through five decades of his life, growing up in suburban Australia, the experiences …
Read moreHeading South
Reviewed onGulflander. Overland. Indian Pacific. Maps and timetables and clickety-clack rails. The traveller’s desire to see more and take longer doing it sits at a window seat in Tim Richard’s Heading …
Read moreThe Boy from Birdum
Reviewed onThe Boy from Birdum is a treat on many levels. With the deft execution of an old school drop punt, Bill Dempsey and Steve Hawke have collaborated to share Dempsey’s …
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