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Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2012 special: The Sea Bed by Marele Day
In the lead-up to the Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival, I’ll be putting up a series of (short) reviews of books I’m reading in preparation. The Sea Bed, Marele Day Allen & Unwin, 2009...
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Bellingen Readers & Writers Fest special: A Common Loss by Kirsten Tranter
In the lead-up to the Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival, I’ll be putting up a series of (short) reviews of books I’m reading in preparation. A Common Loss, Kirsten Tranter Fourth Estate, 2012...
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Recently read: The Fine Colour of Rust by PA O’Reilly & What the Family...
I’m fairly time-poor at the moment, but I wanted to at least make a small note about a couple of books I’ve read lately in preparation for the Sydney Writers’ Festival next week! The Fine Colour of...
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Casual fate: Taking Shelter by Jessica Anderson
Published in 1989, by Penguin Jessica Anderson (1916-2010) won the Miles Franklin Literary Award twice, for Tirra Lirra by the River in 1978 and The Impersonators in 1980. Taking Shelter is one of her...
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Parsley and blood: Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth
April 2012 Random House 9781741668452 (buy paperback, ebook) I love a good historical novel: the ability to contrast past and present, to be absorbed in a world that’s (mainly) unfamiliar, and to...
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Treasures from the past: Belinda Castles on Hannah and Emil
Belinda Castles is the author of Falling Woman and The River Baptists (for which she won the 2006 Australian/Vogel Award). Her latest novel is Hannah and Emil, which traces two characters across...
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20 classics #13: The Fortunes of Richard Mahony by Henry Handel Richardson
I’m reading 20 classic, modern-classic or cult books. Read more about this project here. See the other classics here. Why did I want to read it? I haven’t yet reviewed an Australian classic in this...
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Home, strange home: Fishing for Tigers by Emily Maguire
Picador, 9781742610832 September 2012 (buy paperback, ebook) A version of this article was originally published in The Big Issue no. 415. Somewhere around the six-week mark of Emily Maguire’s 2008...
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The Australian Women Writers Challenge 2012: how did I go?
After completing the recent survey on the Australian Women Writers Challenge website I decided it was time I looked at my reading and reviewing of books by Australian women writers in 2012. On the...
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Trauma, kindness & starting with a bang: Jessie Cole on Darkness on the Edge...
Fourth Estate, 2012 9780732293192 (buy paperback, ebook) A woman crashes her car outside Vincent’s house. Vincent attempts to help the woman, and the baby in her arms, which may not have survived the...
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