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Rijn Collin’s Curiosities & Obsessions
RIJN COLLINS is an award-winning short story writer and audio story producer. Her debut novel, Fed to Red Birds, is set in Iceland and is a moving story which explores place, connection and identity.
As AKINA HANSEN writes, it’s a striking novel about a bewitched young mind.
There are few places in the world as scenically diverse and spellbinding as Iceland. For centuries the country has captivated artists and poets alike – and it’s no wonder – sparkling ...
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Features
In our monthly feature SAMUEL BERNARD offers an opinion on a range of literary topics. Want to join in the ...
Hollywood screenwriter turned award-winning author KELLYE GARRETT switched from lighter private eye tales to ...
As I sit here writing, it’s January, and every news feed or news program I look at or listen to is still blasting ...
Bibliophile, DANI VEE, chats to Good Reading’s CRAIG SISTERSON about her debut picture book, My EXTRAordinary ...
We often take for granted the detailed work that goes into what we wear on our feet. In a definitive guide to ...
Romance is one of the most popular genre of books worldwide. It’s a category that in the past has been a little ...
PAUL BIEGLER is a journalist and former specialist physician in emergency medicine. In Why Does It Still Hurt? ...
In Underground Lovers ALISON POULIOT reaches down to earth, and deeper, to dwell with fungal allies and aliens, ...
Dystopian fiction is a popular genre that opens up ideas of how our world might be different or could become in ...
In a new memoir celebrating the power of song to lift our mood and restore our sense of connection to the world, ...
BELINDA JEFFERY is a beloved Australian cookery writer and teacher. She is the bestselling author of Mix & Bake. ...
TONI LODGE is a comedian, author and podcaster. Her latest book, I Don’t Need Therapy is a hilarious memoir which ...
MICHAEL THOMPSON has been a journalist, producer and media executive for the last 15 years. His debut novel How to ...
DR GINNI MANSBERG is a general practitioner, TV host and a resident GP on Channel 7's Sunrise and The Morning ...
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Reviews
Salman Rushdie is a once in a generation writer. His imaginative blend of magical realism and historical fiction ...
What happens when an unprincipled American tech magnate pits his wits against a group of environmental activists ...
Lenny Marks has a carefully ordered life. Her routine brings her contentment, which she prefers over the ...
In Umbria, Italy, there sits a hilltop village where time, earthquakes and landslides have left the buildings ...
Vincent Lam is Medical Director of Coderix Medical Clinic in Toronto. He has a depth of experience in emergency ...
At the beginning of the book is a photograph of the 1503 painting, ‘The Visitation’. The art and its subjects are ...
The Sirens Sing is a coming-of-age novel. It revolves around three characters, two of whom have just finished ...
Each day it seems to Becky that a little of her soul is chipped away. Three weeks ago, she discovered her husband ...
Meredith has formed a crochet group to help tick off her Social and Entertainment/Hobbies goals for the year. She ...
Can you imagine what life would be like if you woke up one day and no-one remembered who you were or what you had ...
Set in Australia in the 1960s, Maggie is a compelling and confronting story about institutional child sexual abuse ...
In a small village in post-war France, a baker and his wife settle into a marriage lacking physical warmth. Elodie ...
Where I live there is a Prince Alfred Park, named after the second son of Queen Victoria who visited Australia in ...
It’s said that opposites attract and that’s the case in this well-crafted story of the relationship between two ...
In Trinidad during the 1940s the profound impacts of colonialism were waning. Society was split between families ...
Lucy is 24, an editor of a dying music magazine. She lives from deadline to deadline, while simultaneously trying ...
Rachel Hudson is part of a typical Australian family, with her mum, Beth, her dad, Brian, and older brother, Matt. ...
Norwegian American author Alex Dahl has a fine touch for compelling tales full of desperation, dark secrets, and ...
After starting out by writing some very good small-town murder mysteries that earned her accolades and ...
McIntosh is a ‘million copy bestselling author’ for a long list of other novels and has written three previous ...
The news in January that Michael Connelly had been chosen as an MWA Grand Master should come as no surprise to ...
In the Blink of an Eye is an immensely enjoyable, fast-paced thriller featuring the feisty but vulnerable Chief ...
The murder of an elderly former nun at a nursing home, and the discovery of a buried baby’s remains during ...
The title of this book does not refer to a place of comfort and safety. Instead, Home is the name of the ...
Needing time out from her troubled marriage and a managerial job with Family Services in Sydney, Dana Gibson heads ...
Dark Mode is about Reagan Carsen who owns a struggling niche nursery called Voodoo Lily. She has a difficult ...
Elizabeth Coleman is a seasoned scriptwriter and her experience with fast-paced plots from the ‘Miss Fisher’ TV ...
The latest crime thriller featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Detective Inspector Jean-Guy Beauvoir of ...
What a gem of a book.
Sita Walker was born in Australia, growing up in a country town. She lived with her family ...
Richard Grant Esterhuysen was born in Swaziland (now Eswatini) in 1957. He decided early on that he wanted to be ...
Shirley Hazzard is a well-known Australian writer, most famous for The Transit of Venus and The Great Fire, which ...
In scientific circles, Dr Uwe Radok is known as a pioneer of meteorological and glaciological research in ...
If your reaction when thinking of graphic novels is ‘just for kids’, or ‘glorified comic book’, then this book ...
Many of us followed the careers of Lagertha and Aslaug in the terrific series ‘Vikings’ with considerable ...
Dr Catherine Ball believes we need to get better acquainted with technology; the future is already here. Converge ...
The literal translation of euthanasia from Latin is ‘good death’. Readers will not be surprised to learn that a ...
Jerry Saltz is a New York-based, award-winning art critic. This book is a collection of pieces he’s written ...
Birkhead is a scientist and author. He’s a bird enthusiast. Do not call him a twitcher. This distinction is just ...
Let’s get one thing straight: The plural of platypus is NOT platypi, as that would put a Latin suffix on a Greek ...
For any fans of Six of Crows, The Gilded Wolves or Caraval, Kate J Armstrong has delivered a story that is perfect ...
The Quiet and the Loud involves a young and vulnerable teenager, George, and the friendships and many challenges, ...
The story begins somewhere in the future, when people are living in small townships of 350 people on 700 hectares ...
This book is based on the true story of tiriganiarjuk, or as the scientists call her, Miso, an Artic fox who was ...
As with all good cat stories, this one begins with a box and a kitten who lives in a shelter. This kitten loves ...
This book is the third in the ‘Willa and Woof’ series.
Willa Jane Tait’s best friend is her dog, Woof. He is an ...
Prepare for take off! Jess McGeachin’s High is all about what’s up, from the tallest mountains, pointy ...
In the first pages of this large picture book, we meet our author, Isaiah Firebrace. He tells us he is a proud ...
It’s polite to say thank you and please. It’s good manners to cover your mouth when you cough or sneeze.
But uh ...
Who is Molly Moo? She lives in a barn, has a wet nose, black and white splodges and noisy hooves. Is she a goat? ...
Owl loved sitting on a branch looking up to greet the stars in the night sky. When one evening his favourite ...
The fourth year of drought is the only topic of interest in the isolated town of Unamurra until two murders are ...
Old Babes in the Wood is a collection of short stories from Margaret Atwood, the award-winning author of The ...
Heather Bloom, 89 years old, falls off a ladder in her garden. After surgery, she moves to Woodlands Nursing Home ...
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