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What She Said
Inspirational Speeches by Women What She Said is a powerhouse book. Anyone who has to make a speech, no matter what their standing, the reason […]
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Women’s cricket in Australia has been strong for a very long time, with much of its very recent history happening totally out of the public […]
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On Reckoning
When Australia’s Prime Minister told the nation that it took his wife’s argument that ‘he should think about what happened to Brittany Higgins in relation […]
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Young adults who love a thrilling read, who ponder possibilities and follow fast action, will love The Aging Machine. The whole concept of an aging […]
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Neon Gods
When you a take the Gods from Olympus and place them very firmly in the 21 century, and have an excellent and witty way with […]
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Believe In Me
Believe in Me is a profound, deeply personal journey into the mother daughter relationship as Bet tries to understand her mother, her past and then […]
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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 […]
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How to Repaint a Life
YA award winning author Steven Herrick has once again written a superb novel How to Repaint a Life, which takes a gentle, but clear look […]
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Firekeeper’s Daughter
Angeline Boulley is an Indian woman of the Bear Clan from Sault Ste. Marie, a woman with tradition as an inbuilt component of her soul. […]
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Henry Hamlet’s Heart
Henry Hamlet’s Heart is a young adult coming of age novel set in Brisbane, Australia and is written by Rhiannon Wilde. Set at the end […]
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All the Murmuring Bones
All families have secrets but when those secrets could and have killed, it sets the scene for a gripping mystery based firmly in gothic fiction: […]
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Tussaud
The French Revolution: It’s one of those historical moments that have spawned as many legends as there are truths. It’s almost like a real life […]
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Waking Romeo
Waking Romeo is a very, very clever take on several of the Classics beloved of generations, woven into a fast paced time travel novel destined […]
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When We Are Invisible
We are well and truly into 2021 and considering the crappy year that was 2020 you would be forgiven if you thought my book review […]
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Book one of any saga is always interesting, as it contains much without giving too much away, which is the case with The Traitor’s Reliquary […]
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Climate Grief is a very real condition and one that we as citizens on this earth are simply not aware of, other than to accept […]
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Fantasy: It’s an interesting genre and by interesting I mean I have had an interesting past with it, growing up reading Harry Potter which I […]
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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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Dead in the Water
A very angry book about our greatest environmental catastrophe. . . the death of the Murray-Darling Basin The subtitle of Dead in the Water states […]
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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 […]
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In this extraordinarily powerful and moving book, some of Australia’s best-known writers and thinkers — as well as ecologists, walkers, farmers, historians, ornithologists, artists and community activists — come together to reflect on what it is like to be alive during an ecological crisis.
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‘Begin at the beginning,’ the King said, ‘ and go on till you come to the end: then stop.’ And so, please do enter the […]
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Aaron Smith has written a brutally honest expose of Australian social and political behaviours toward Torres Strait Islanders and Aboriginal people. With great insight he […]
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Being a teenager in the twenty-first century is difficult enough, without being faced with the dilemma of having to balance your life in two diagonally […]