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Indira Naidoo

Bittersweet, emotional and beautiful, Indira Naidoo takes grief out of the darkness and brings it into the light as her tribute and farewell to her beloved sister Stargirl, in The...

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Mark Berridge

Mark Berridge was a man who had it all; a stellar career, a lovely wife, three children and a group of mates he enjoyed going cycling with, until his ‘had...

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Emily Brugman

There is so much to enjoy in The Islands. Much of it is set in the Archipelago called Houtman’s Abrolhos off the coast of Geraldton in Western Australia. This area...

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Peter FitzSimons

George Herbert Wilkins is a man little heard of in Australia but a man who did live his life to the fullest extent in every respect. A man who should...

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Brian Broome,

In a stunningly heartfelt, quirky, often funny but unbearably sad memoir, Brian Broome shares what it is really like to be black, gay and an American, in his ‘coming of...

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Jacques Peretti

The rise of Hitler in Germany during the 1930s impacted not only on Jewish communities, but also the non-Jewish populations of many neighbouring countries; it can be claimed that none...

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Bill Decarli with Kristin Lee.

Lasseter’s Reef has for almost a century been talked about in so many venues in Australia as many debated whether the story of a huge gold bearing reef in Central...

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Dr Meryl Broughton.

For those of you settling into a summer break and wondering what to read, Autopsies for the Armchair Enthusiast, may not be your first choice but should definitely be one...

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Ken Halley.

In 2019 Ken Halley, The One Who Got Away, had the next twelve months planned out, almost down to the last dollar and detail. That was before the world as...

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Written and curated by Rosie Day.

WOW! What a powerhouse of information and advice Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon is for young girls. It should be compulsory reading for all young women (and it’s pretty good...

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Mark Howison

We meet Mark Howison as he is taking refuge up a tree out on the Nullabor. Why, because his father has run out of smokes and Mark happened to make...

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Lucinda Hawksley

Extraordinary correspondence from history's remarkable women This beautiful hard back book, Letters of Great Women, is a collection of illuminating and inspiring conversations from women throughout history. It contains, where...