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Daughter of The River Country by Dianne O’Brien
Daughter of the River Country is a memoir of survival and triumph from Yorta Yorta woman, community leader and Mingaletta CEO DIANNE O’BRIEN. As HEATHER LEWIS writes, it’s an amazing story of an incredible woman’s fighting spirit in holding onto what is important: family and identity.
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’ is an oft-repeated phrase, but it’s not really universal. Trauma is complex – what can dominate a person’s thoughts, actions and ...
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Features
A woman has gone missing
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Mia Eliot has travelled from London to LA for pilot ...
It was 20 years ago that we published our first issue of Good Reading. To finally share our dream with readers was ...
Some useful practical tips from recent non-fiction releases.
Studies in mice have shown that the intense ...
Some useful practical tips from recent non-fiction releases.
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Anatomy meets obsession in The Tribute by debut author JOHN BYRON, about a formidable serial killer who terrorises ...
Our July book club pick is Catch Us the Foxes by Australian author NICOLA WEST, the story of a dark and twisted ...
The Heights is a tall, slender apartment building among the warehouses of Shad Thames, its roof terrace so ...
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May, 1940: After a bitter tragedy, young Australian woman Lucie and her French mother Yvonne are ...
In a new book, The Story of Australia: For the young and curious, Don Watson weaves together all the strands of ...
Recently, Nora has started to feel that 'having it all' - a family, a soon-to-be new house, a successful career in ...
For over 30 years, DR NORMAN SWAN has been delivering straight, honest, common-sense health information to ...
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Reviews
Any reader without a vivid imagination, please look away now.
In this novel, ‘a starry-eyed young couple takes a ...
Is all of life a circle? That is a major theme of this sprawling great epic of a novel, ranging for more than a ...
Dominique Aury lived in Paris through the German occupation of World War II. She had changed her name from Anne ...
Vic, Joan’s married lover, shoots himself in front of her while she has dinner with the man who replaced him. ...
This entertaining book, set in 1970s Sydney, is a lovely examination of female friendship, against the backdrop of ...
The pairing of poetry with a production line seems particularly counterintuitive. Yet, having done so, Joseph ...
Malibu is a place of scenic beauty but a magnet for natural disasters – floods, hurricanes and fire. Jenkins Reid ...
Flock is a collection of short stories which have already been published, or performed, and are written by both ...
The secret World War II government installation of Bletchley Park, where people worked tirelessly to crack enemy ...
Twin brothers Eden and Jon are not men when they survive a horrific car crash that claims the lives of their ...
Have you ever lived in an old house where floorboards and roof rafters creak? Where sometimes the door moves that ...
Set in 1976 in the small hinterland town of Repentance, where logging and farming have been the staple industries ...
Josephine is on her honeymoon when she is seized with a sudden desire to visit her old boarding school, St John ...
The Underground Railroad was published in 2016. It has won numerous awards, including the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, and ...
There is a popular image of a hoarder as an anti-social misfit, rarely seen outside a house crammed full of ...
This is a funny and surprisingly poignant novel about the impact of the internet and social media on our lives and ...
It’s been thrilling in recent years to see an increasing amount of Japanese crime fiction made more available to ...
While Detroit native August Snow has the skills of a detective, he carries neither badge nor private eye ...
After building her glittering career with a long-running, multi-award-winning series starring Baltimore private ...
When you think of mermaids, the image which comes to mind is of alluring, long-haired females with the tail of a ...
I’m familiar with physiotherapy, psychotherapy and music therapy but not with the ancient practice of ...
Searching for the ‘good life’ they had failed to achieve on their Adelaide Hills property, Williams, her husband ...
Those readers who enjoyed Alexander’s first memoir in the tree-change genre, Thirty Thousand Bottles of Wine and a ...
Australian-born, New Zealand-based children’s author Kyle Mewburn was assigned male at birth, and during her ...
We all know that most people brought to the new British colony of New South Wales from 1788 were convicts. What is ...
Joan Didion has been a centrepiece of American literature since the ’60s. She honed her writing teeth at Vogue and ...
This is unusual – reviewing a book of reviews. John Green is the bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars. ...
Self-help books preach to the converted to some extent. You’re not likely to read one without wanting it to have ...
Jonica Newby, presenter of the ABC science program Catalyst for two decades, introduces this book with a quote ...
What a pleasure it is to hold a beautiful hardback book, graced with a seemingly gilded cover, fine printing and ...
In my suburb I enjoy the calls of the Butcher Bird. One will begin a song and another from far away will finish it ...
Amber & Rye is a dive into Baltic food and culture. It’s a coffee table-style cookbook, which includes gorgeous ...
This is a terrific hot collection of fire-cooked tasty recipes. It includes instructions for setting up the fire, ...
7 Ways is a classic Jamie Oliver. It’s clever and easy cooking. Organised by main ingredients, such as sausages, ...
Companion novel to Kat Cho’s Gumiho: Wicked Fox, Dokkaebi: Vicious Spirits centres around the consequences of the ...
‘Did you know you can marry yourself?’
Phoebe Davis is a sarcastic 15-year-old who records journal entries ...
If you have one of those young animal lovers at home then this is the book for you. In this book there are twenty ...
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RING! RING! RING!
Who is at the door?
It’s a dinosaur, a big brontosaurus, and it’s grabbed ...
Cat is in a bind. The only reason that her parents can afford to send her and her sister to Victoria Grammar in ...
Sometimes you pick up a book that instantly draws you in. Talking to Alaska is one such book.
It’s the first day ...
When you first stand in a forest, the trees all seem the same. But if you look more closely, they are each a ...
Andrea Wild works for CSIRO’s National Research Collections Australia, which is home to more than 15 million ...
Calling all the Mums and Dads out there trying to get their little ones to sleep! Mummy Owl is having the same ...
Have you ever been down to the seaside where the waves splash and crash to and fro?
Or peeped over the edge of a ...
This graphic novel examines the impact of Nazi occupation in France on Jews, in particular, a young girl named ...
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