Kayte Nunn has written an excellent story in The Last Reunion to bring to light an almost unknown group of women. Australian, English, and Indian […]
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The Long, Long Afternoon
Set in an affluent white neighbourhood of the post war America 1950’s during the endless days of a hot California summer, housewife Joyce Haney vanishes. […]
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Something to Hide
Following on from Red Dirt Country, Something to Hide finds Dave Burrows at a crisis point in his life, or should one say another crisis […]
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A Week to Remember
A Week to Remember from Esther Campion is certainly reminiscent of Maeve Binchy’s style of writing. The story is set in Ireland and the landscape, […]
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Generally crime fiction narratives develop around the notion ‘Who’; however this is not the case with ‘Light Seekers’. Being greatly affected by ‘Aluu Four’; the […]
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A Home Like Ours
Set in a small town along the Murray River, A Home Like Ours from Fiona Lowe is captivating from the first page. The drama of […]
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Every Second Tuesday
Every second Tuesday for more than thirteen years, a group of four people have meet to write; to create stories and poetry around life in […]
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When Ruth Druart arrived in Paris in 1993, she was surprised by the number of plaques and monuments displayed for those who died during World […]
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The Family Doctor
The recent Women’s March 4 Justice marches around Australia have heightened the awareness of violence again women and the fact that there is still much […]
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a shedload of wine & a farm full of goats You’ve Got To Be Kidding, the follow on to Thirty Thousand Bottles of Wine and […]
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Ruthless Women
The world of soapie television is one that is addictive, with the shows often running for years and years in one time slot or another, […]
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Chasing the McCubbin
Rich in detail that perfectly captures the essence of life during the 1990’s in Australia, when hard times were felt by many in all walks […]
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The Smash-Up
None of us go through life without some struggle and hardships. The struggles portrayed in The Smash Up, as narrated by Ethan, mirror many familiar […]
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Descendant of the Crane
Within the realms of fantastical literature, particularly the young adult variety, it is becoming more common that a lot of entries read very similar to […]
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A childhood friendship between two girls, one the privileged daughter of a Sheik, the other a village girl both at the Bagdad Ladies High School, […]
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Everything is Beautiful
It was something little that caused all the fuss originally, something little like keeping the daily papers to re-read, just in case some vital piece […]
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Roland Perry is a prolific author who wanders across a vast spectrum of literature; fiction, non-fiction and documentary film writing, so when a book such […]
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Vincent has landed what he considers a dream job based in Santa Barbara, working as security for Eugene Lamar. He considers that life driving the […]
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HIS ONLY WIFE
Peace Adso Medie is to be congratulated on an engaging and well-crafted first novel, His Only Wife. The characters are all interesting and many faceted, […]
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AS SWALLOWS FLY
As Swallows Fly is a captivating debut novel for Lawrence McMahon. He began writing while studying a Medical Degree and has had many short stories […]
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A Net for Small Fishes
The year is 1609: the city where A Net For Small Fishes is set is London. A foreign King rules over a court whose extravagances […]
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Born Into This
Adam Thompson has in his delicately crafted debut work Born Into This, captured the essence of what life is like from a First Nations peoples […]