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Where is Evie?
When tragedy strikes it is hard to imagine ever living a normal life. SHELLEY BURR’s gripping new novel, Wake, focuses on the devastating long-term impact that crime has on the lives of its victims. KAREN WILLIAMS tells us more.
The Good Reading Podcast · Shelley Burr on the unsolved disappearance that haunts a small farming community in 'WAKE'
In the lead-up to the release of Wake the book had already won huge accolades and been nominated for, and ...
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Features
VICTORIA PURMAN is an award-nominated bestselling author. Her books include, The Last of the Bonegilla, The Land ...
If someone were to say to you, I want you to create a library of books for my newborn child. I want you to fill it ...
DIANE CONNELL began writing as a novelist when she lived in Paris. She later moved to London, where her first two ...
MARGARET CUNNEEN SC was a Crown Prosecutor for over 30 years in NSW. Her latest book The Boxing Butterfly ...
Read the thrilling first chapter, a review, or listen to the podcast for SKANDAR AND THE UNICORN THIEF by A F ...
A round-up of some of the best fiction out recently.
ESTHER’S CHILDREN Caroline Beecham • Allen & Unwin
Inspired ...
CANDICE FOX burst onto the Australian book scene several years ago by winning back-to-back Ned Kelly Awards with ...
JONATHAN VAN NESS is a televsion personality who stars in Netflix’s Queer Eye. His new book, Love That Story, is a ...
The Words We Keep is a moving story about mental health and the healing powers of friendship and art from ...
Studio Ghibli is celebrated across the world for its thoughtful and beautifully animated feature films. AKINA ...
Rather that rushing to see the sights of another country sometimes it’s better to stop and immerse yourself in the ...
D V Bishop has been involved in creative work for decades. He was a comics writer and editor (‘Judge Dredd’) in ...
When Chloe Hooper’s partner is diagnosed with a rare and aggressive illness, she has to find a way to tell their ...
For fans of Elizabeth Gilbert's The Signature of All Things and Pip Williams' The Dictionary of Lost Words, The ...
In the updated edition of Michael Yardney’s Guide to Investing Successfully there is much sage advice on how to ...
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Reviews
If you are not Jewish or have only a rudimentary knowledge of Jewish customs, culture and religion, you may find ...
My Heart is a Little Wild Thing is a tenderly written book about love, the choices we make in our lives, and where ...
Ambiguity abounds with the opening of this novel. Aina and Whitney have been incarcerated on an island, 24 miles ...
This is a story of love and connection – and what happens when for various reasons, such as trauma, abuse, lies or ...
The ever-popular English author, Beth O’Leary, is back with another wonderfully clever novel. The No-Show follows ...
Lily and Janks have organised their lives to make sure their daughter, Jewelee, will have the best possible life ...
The Glasgow of Douglas Stuart hasn’t changed. It’s the same city that Shuggie Bain (of 2021 Booker Prize winning ...
It’s difficult to pin down exactly where At Certain Points We Touch sits. Is it an insider’s exposé of the art and ...
The film, The Lost Daughter, is about Leda, an Italian academic, relaxing at a beach while she researches and ...
If Jack Kerouac (On the Road) and Kenneth Cook (Wake in Fright) had a child, this book would be the result, ...
This book is a love song to the early aviators of the 20th century. If you have a love of aviation and the early ...
Disa and her son, Sindri, are escaping for their lives from their family home in Norway. Disa has committed a ...
A husband and wife decide, after many happy years of marriage, to document secrets from their respective past ...
Success takes many forms. For some it has to do with public service and job satisfaction. For others it’s purely ...
The editors of this wonderful collection of 22 short crime stories set out with a mission to ‘gather together for ...
The fourth ‘Caleb Zelic’ novel from award-winning Emma Viskic, Those Who Perish holds its own as a stand-alone ...
New England crime writer Peter Swanson has shown a deep appreciation for the history of the mystery genre in his ...
Mina McCreery is the twin sister of Evelyn. This has made her an unwanted celebrity in the small outback town of ...
I thoroughly enjoyed McTiernan’s first three novels featuring investigator Cormac Reilly; she is a clever ...
The city referred to here is Providence, Rhode Island – a beautiful city in the New England region of the USA. But ...
From his Myron Bolitar mysteries to a host of chilling stand-alones, award-winning crime writer Harlan Coben has ...
If you enjoy tales of retribution and bad people having bad things happen to them, then you may want to give ...
For as long as he could remember, Keith Cox had wanted to be a nurse. He always had a calling to help other ...
Jackie Huggins and Ngaire Jarro are sisters from the Bidjara and Birri Gubba Juru nations. One hundred years after ...
May Hunt was born in Milparinka, in far north-west New South Wales, in 1900. She was the child of Hannah and Jack, ...
Little Billy Tallon is a memoir about working below stairs for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother at ...
Recent books such as Richard Powers’ novel The Overstory, and Peter Wohleben’s The Hidden Life of Trees, have ...
It was 1897 when The Belgica set sail from its home port on the Belgium coast. It was commanded by Adrien de ...
Some might think reading a book about the dead a bit morbid. Not so for this reviewer withg this insightful book ...
Sounds Wild & Broken is a sensory extravaganza. Haskell invites us to listen closely to – and actually hear – the ...
Brave New Meal is a guide to cooking without animal products, with an overarching message of eating healthy and ...
This book is a homage to the diverse, exciting cuisine that is Lebanese cooking. The capital of Lebanon, Beruit, ...
This is a plot -twisting book with supernatural vibes.
Holly Fitzgerald is 40 years old and living in Melbourne ...
Roxy is co-written by father-and-son duo, Neal and Jarrod Shusterman, and focuses on the US opioid epidemic, where ...
This is an amazing book. I’m starting by saying that because this book grabbed and pulled me right in from page ...
Sisters Flora and Isobel lost their home in London during a bombing raid in World War II. They now find themselves ...
Based on a true story, this delightfully written and simple story about memory is told from the perspective of ...
There are lions in this bushland, so they say.
Shy, secretive mountain lions hidden away.
These elusive beasts ...
Once,
long, long ago …
there were two finches,
Susanah and Pico,
who lived far, far away
in a forest near the ...
I wish I could start this review using the introduction to this beautiful and sensual book. For that’s all you ...
This is a beautifully written and poignant story about what it takes to be brave. Sometimes you are not okay when ...
Whale has now been waiting nearly a year for the birth of her calf. She has come thousands of kilometres from the ...
As a child, Charlie lived an idyllic life fishing and crabbing with his brothers and cousins. He loved the smell ...
Tara Button works hard, discourages friendships andspends a lot of time bailing out troubled younger brother, Zac. ...
Skandar and the Unicorn Thief is an action-packed magical tale set in a near future world that has unicorns. These ...
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