Kintsugi
Reviewed onShortlisted for the 2022 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award, Kintsugi by Marie O’Rourke is a book that, in her own words, resists the ‘tradition of first person, past-tense, chronological, narrative …
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The Things We Live With
Reviewed onDr Gemma Nisbet is a West Australian writer. She also teaches, amongst other subjects, travel writing. This is because Gemma used to be a travel writer at The West Australian. …
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Love, 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 …
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The Memory of Trees
Reviewed onWhen I was growing up in York, an ancient salmon gum standing across the road from my bedroom window was the most steadfast of my childhood companions. Night and day, …
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