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Threads of Time with Lauren Chater
On the small Dutch island of Texel, where fortunes were lost and secrets lie buried for centuries, the discovery of a 17th-century dress is filled with intrigue and skullduggery. LAUREN CHATER tells KAREN WILLIAMS why she was passionate about the subject of her latest book and the story of two women separated by centuries but connected by a silk dress.
I was led into the depths of the bowels of a dimly-lit basement. There in front of me was a large white ...
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Features
There’s something about old books. The older the better. I love the feel, the beautiful textures of leather-bound ...
On the small Dutch island of Texel, where fortunes were lost and secrets lie buried for centuries, the discovery ...
In The Future is Fungi we learn that the kingdom of fungi has incredibly survived all five major extinction ...
PADDY O’REILLY is an award-winning writer and author of well-known novels such as, The Wonders and The Fine Colour ...
CARRIE COX is a journalist and author of a non-fiction book, You Take the High Road and I’ll Take the Bus, and ...
ROBERT COX is a former copywriter, journalist, and editor with a keen interest in the history of Tasmania. He is ...
SAM KERR is the capatin of the Australia women’s national soccer team – the Matildas – and a leading goal scorer ...
GEORGIA MCDERMOTT is a much-loved Melbourne food blogger who is passionate about making life’s delicious moments ...
FLEUR MCDONALD is a leading author of rural literature and the best-selling author of the ‘Detective Dave Burrows’ ...
ERIN STEWART is the author of the YA novel Scars Like Wings. Good Reading caught up with the author about the ...
LANA SPASEVSKI’S new book A Sprinkle of Sadie has three stories which are complete with recipes about superstar ...
A round-up of some of the best non-fiction out recently
MISSING, PRESUMED DEAD: THE DOUBLE MURDER CASE ...
The mystery behind the Voynich Manuscript has led to many unsuccessful attempts to decipher it. AKINA HANSEN looks ...
This letter to Judith Wright’s daughter, Meredith McKinney, was written from ‘Edge’, Wright’s property near ...
Historians Arthur der Weduwen and Andrew Pettegree, authors of The Library: A fragile history, say that libraries ...
In a personal yet comprehensive handbook, How to Be Well, two of Australia’s leading voices in women’s health and ...
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Reviews
When a book is set around a place you’ve lived in, the first page is approached with trepidation. When that ...
There’s no getting around it: this is a big book. Big by weight, but also laden with ideas on every one of its ...
The Grass Hotel is narrated by a woman who slowly lost her mind and then her life to the terrible disease of ...
Evelyn runs a busy laundromat in suburban Melbourne. She’s single and fiercely independent. Her attention to ...
When a baby is born in a run-down caravan he is not like other babies. The Fish is different, and yet he does ...
A Great Hope falls neatly into the ‘not quite’ bracket. It is not quite a whodunnit, a family saga, a story of ...
Viv Walker has a long list of life admin tasks to get through and not much time to do it, because she is dying. ...
The global pandemic has hit Simon Larsen hard. He has been forced to close his architecture practice and declare ...
This is an extraordinary work of profound breadth and depth: of language and the representation of identity; of ...
John Booth came from a family of 10 children, four of whom died in childhood.
His father was one of the ...
The horrors of Alzheimer’s don’t necessarily make for an easy read. But this stunning novel uses fading memories ...
This captivating short novel set in Japan in autumn is utterly brilliant. Being prose, rather than poetry, it’s ...
Anna is a 24-year-old opera student, living in London. To earn money, she sings jazz in a bar, where she meets ...
Drawing from the author’s own life experiences, The Keepers follows the story of Jay and her teenage twins who ...
A tantalising amalgamation of love, drama, place, and history, The Islands is equipped for every book club in ...
This stunning collection of stories takes the reader into the heart of Calvino’s homeland of Galicia, Spain, ...
New baronet and lowly civil servant Robin Blyth is assigned a job in the Office of Special Domestic Affairs and ...
The Locked Room is the 14th novel in Griffiths’ marvellous ‘Ruth Galloway’ novels. This would be difficult to read ...
It’s a hot summer in the corn belt of rural Iowa. Chloe Miller’s body is discovered among a field of potentially ...
Heiress on Fire was the first book in this series featuring super-wealthy Indigo-Daisy Violet-Amber Royce ...
If you’ve watched Scandi-noir series like ‘The Bridge’, you’ll be familiar with the work of Hans Rosenfeldt: ...
This book is set in a splendid landmark apartment building in Montmartre, the kind you see as a tourist and dream ...
Ansel Packer is a convicted serial killer waiting to be transported to the Death House and his imminent execution ...
For my money, if you want to make a list of the best crime novels of 2018 that has any kind of legitimacy, then ...
This is the true story of Mala Kacenberg, one of nine children in a large Jewish family living in Poland. Three of ...
The retelling of the Holocaust is now a two-sided coin. On one side sits the notion that there are already enough ...
Country towns are renowned for everyone knowing everyone else. There’s the sense of community where people will ...
You may well know Indira Naidoo from TV and radio. Her latest book is a courageous and magical volume that is part ...
This book will be many things to many readers. Offerman, an actor, author, woodworker and comedian, uses this work ...
Skin Deep is an exploration of our largest and most visible organ, our skin. McGuinness explores the science of ...
Hayes lists his two natural environments as the gym and the library. This book marries the two, and there’s a neat ...
Rare are the books with the word ‘Bibliography’ in the title which afford such entertainment. It’s even ...
This is a cultural and visual feast providing a fascinating insight into Tibetan cuisine. The recipes have been ...
In 1979, shortly after the fall of the ‘Gang of Four’, China had an annual GDP of about US$149 billion. That made ...
As the subtitle suggests, The Dawn of Everything is an ambitious book. Its premise is that there are essentially ...
A crew of four misfits, charged with murder and the illegal use of magic come together to plan the ultimate ...
Echo in the Memory features two intersecting stories; one set in 1829 (told in the first person) and the other in ...
Maisie and her mum are heading to Maisie’s first-ever fan convention, where Maisie hopes to meet her hero, an ...
Set in post-World War I Wales, When the War Came Home sees Natty and her single mum, Ffion, moving once again, as ...
Grace’s Escape is the second book following on from Grace’s Secret. In the first one, Grace and her mum, ...
A little boy is talking to his baby brother who is sleeping peacefully in his cot. He tells him he desperately ...
Nangga! Nangga! Yakarti!
Tonight will be the Ceremony.
If you remember the first picture book in this series, ...
Jack Furey has reached a momentous birthday. He’s turning 100 but he’s not too happy about it. Jack doesn’t want ...
Short stories are having a moment in the sun. Although, for this superb collection of seven stories, it would be ...
Anaïs Echeverría has lived in London for many years, and somehow finds herself reluctantly engaged to her ...
Zafón will forever be associated with The Shadow of the Wind (TSOTW), its Cemetery of Forgotten Books and his ...
In the 1920s and '30s the Great Plains of the central United States were turned into a dustbowl. Years of drought ...
The story of Lafcadio Hearn is already interesting: a man with Greek-Irish heritage, who spent years in America ...
Jack Reacher, the central character of novel, is a charming and smart ‘James Bond’ hero – but he is also ruthless ...
The books of Stephen King are so distinctive and so steeped in the voice we all know and love they're almost a ...
Case Study is a literary jigsaw puzzle of a novel that plays with ideas of identity and truth, fiction and ...
Over My Dead Body continues the series that the author hopes will see William Warwick rise to be Commissioner of ...
Ellen Adams, the newly appointed US Secretary of State, is woken by her Chief of Staff, Charles Boynton, at 2 am ...
The enduring love of families and the resilience and strength of black women shines through in Memphis, a dark but ...
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