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Pip Williams on the power of knowledge
PIP WILLIAMS is the internationally bestselling author of her 2020 debut novel The Dictionary of Lost Words. She returns to the same world in her latest companion book The Bookbinder of Jericho, which is a powerful and moving novel about bindery women at the Oxford University Press during World War I.
As AKINA HANSEN writes, it’s a fascinating story of knowledge, class and gender.
Access to information and basic education is deemed a fundamental human ...
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Features
Good Reading dips into the first paragraphs of The Running Club by Ali Lowe to give you a taste of what’s to ...
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PIP WILLIAMS is the internationally bestselling author of her 2020 debut novel The Dictionary of Lost Words. She ...
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In a our monthly feature SAMUEL BERNARD offers an opinion on a range of literary topics. Want to join in the ...
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Reviews
There’s something of the deja vu about a day that starts with a picnic in the scorching heat of the Australian ...
Sweet, swoon-worthy and completely captivating, Duck à l’Orange For Breakfast is a mesmerising romance story about ...
Gregory Buchanan is a state politician. He’s stereotypically vain and considers himself infallible. His wife, ...
In the author’s note at the beginning of the book, he talks about wanting to write about Matthew Flinders, but ...
This is a gentle, meandering novel about Elva, a young woman who is half-Australian and half-Icelandic. She is ...
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In her debut novel, Patel explores family complexities. How to cope when a parent is suddenly gone, how to blend ...
Kara Gnodde’s debut novel, The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything, follows two siblings, Art and Mimi Brotherton, ...
Toni Jordan is in fine form with this follow-up to her heart-warming Dinner with the Schnabels.
Taking the ...
As the narrative begins, Mae is with her ageing mother. It’s apparent that they’ve reconciled after a long ...
Young adulthood and life at university can be the start of a bright new future. But it’s also a time of tension; ...
Think of this collection of 10 short stories as a meal: nine of them are your entree selection and the last, the ...
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Our unnamed narrator feels that his dissertation in critical theory has stalled, going nowhere. He wants to leave ...
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Ava Campanello and Olivia McAfee have come to Adams, New Hampshire, for a fresh start. Both desperately attempting ...
The Priory of the Orange Tree is one of the most iconic fantasy stories of the last decade. Does Samantha ...
Once again Leigh Bardugo proves she can write a stunning sequel, as Hell Bent is just as much fun, adventurous, ...
The title of Home does not refer to a place of comfort and safety. Home is the name of the headquarters of a ...
One usually joins a running club for the health benefits and the camaraderie of a shared passion. This club offers ...
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Arkansas author and former high school football coach Eli Cranor produced, for me, arguably the best debut crime ...
A winning thriller writer and Seattle native Glen Erik Hamilton was feted as a Guest of Honour at last month’s ...
If a book about life on a sheep farm sounds prosaic, Maggie Mackellar’s new memoir is anything but.
A lyrical ...
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Mental health is much discussed but it is still poorly understood. Anna Spargo-Ryan’s memoir demystifies mental ...
Janet Malcolm was the revered writer for The New Yorker magazine with an acute interest in photography, ...
There is just one jarring note in this utterly absorbing account of a diminutive French female archaeologist who ...
A saddlemaker is more than a tradesman: he is an artist.’
These words, attributed to saddler Charles Grant ...
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Taking inspiration from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, esteemed author Anthony McGowan takes a fresh angle by ...
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On opening this book we join Mia and her uncle Eddie, who is taking her to the Big Wok for dim sum.
It’s quite a ...
If you live in Sydney, or are thinking of coming to visit, here’s the book for you and your family. Each double ...
In a desert valley, surrounded by mountains of rock and cacti, is a tiny village.’
This is a boy’s home. He never ...
‘My Grandma says the funniest things.
She says that you don’t need much to be happy – not really.’
She tells us ...
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