Graffiti Lane
Reviewed onThis poet’s work began with themes gathered in her early days as an underdog on a council estate in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. Using simple powerful language, she offers the reader a very …
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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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The Wooleen Way
Reviewed onDavid Pollock’s engrossing read tells the story of his passionate mission to renew his family’s massive pastoral property in Western Australia’s southern rangelands. It follows on from his appearances on …
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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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The Monster Who Wasn’t
Reviewed onHatched from the fluke melding of a baby’s first laugh and an old man’s last sigh, the imp boy Sam looks like a human but can scale walls like a …
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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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6222 Syllables
Reviewed on6222 Syllables is a collection of 366 haikus, one for every day in a leap year. Although classic in terms of syllable count, their subject matter is contemporary and wide-ranging, covering …
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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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A Stolen Life: the Bruce Trevorrow Case
Reviewed onAntonio Buti’s A Stolen Life charts the circumstances behind the removal of Ngarrindjeri man Bruce Trevorrow from his family as a baby by the South Australian Aboriginal Protection Board, and …
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