Open Your Heart to Country
Reviewed onThis magical story, written and illustrated by award-winning author Jasmine Seymour, is a First Nations book with a text written in both Dharug and English. It’s an inspiring delight, teaching …
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Dark Dimensions: Clans of Conflict
Reviewed onTroy is a Battlemaster, a brave leader of a group of soldiers sent to explore parallel dimensions, each one swarming with malignant vampires. Under the command of their leader Vlad, …
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The Shop Train
Reviewed onThis wonderful collaboration is based on the Tea and Sugar Train that operated between 1917 and 1996 to provide supplies and services for people living in remote communities between Port …
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The Silence of Water
Reviewed onThe Silence of Water is the stunning debut of Perth author Sharron Booth. Tracing a family’s history across three generations, the novel is based on true events and grounded in …
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The Voyeur
Reviewed onIn this collection of bite-sized short stories, award-winning WA writer Christopher Konrad explores the human condition with tenderness and creativity. As the book’s title suggests, Konrad peers into the lives …
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Jack of Hearts
Reviewed onThis is a poignant biography of Jack Huggins, an Indigenous Australian who served in WWII as a young man. Written by his daughters, the story is personal, moving and warm. …
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Outback 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 …
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The Greatest Thing
Reviewed onThe teen years are a stressful time for many: the pressures of school, the exploration of who you uniquely are, and the dark thoughts that can sometimes accompany this layered …
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A Caravan Like A Canary
Reviewed onTara Button’s mother, Tabitha, is dying. And she wants Tara to tow the family’s rusting yellow caravan across the state to the hospice in which she is residing. Reluctantly, Tara …
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FIFO: Fit In or F**K Off
Reviewed onFIFO – Fit In or F**K Off is a stage play. Confronting yet tempered with Aboriginal humour, playwright Melody Dia acknowledges that during her research she heard as many positive …
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