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Ties That Break with Mick Cummins
MICK CUMMINS is a screenwriter and playwright whose works include, Window Without a View and Perfect Madness. His debut novel, So Close to Home, won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript and is a moving and gritty novel that explores homelessness, addiction and trauma.
AKINA HANSEN writes.
Right now Australia is experiencing an unprecedented housing crisis. Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported that ...
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CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS is an award-winning and bestselling author whose works include Barracuda, Damascus and The Slap. ...
WENDY HARMER has had such an extraordinary life. She was born with a severe facial deformity, but overcame all ...
BRYAN BROWN is an author and well-known Australian actor who has appeared in over 80 film and television shows. ...
Good Reading dips into the first few paragraphs of new books to give you a taste of what’s to come.
This month's ...
From No. 1 bestselling author Michael Connelly: Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller is back, and he's taken on another ...
From No. 1 bestselling author Michael Connelly: Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller is back, and he's taken on another ...
In The Last Yakuza JAKE ADELSTEIN presents a sprawling biography of a yakuza, through postwar desperation, to ...
MOLLY SCHMIDT was the winner of the 2022 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award for Salt River Road, a compelling ...
From bestselling cook and food writer Rick Stein, comes the iconic Simple Suppers. A joyful collection of over ...
In 2016, BRINKLEY DAVIES was in a car that hit a mother kangaroo. She was determined to rear the surviving joey ...
If There Is a Butterfly That Drinks Tears is the second full-length collection from award-winning poet Natalie ...
Love a good road trip by the water? Then Ultimate Coastal Road Trips: Australia by LEE ATKINSON will be an ...
Finally the long awaited follow-up to global bestseller I am Pilgrim is here. Good Reading chatted with TERRY ...
A J 'Sandy' Mackinnon is best known to readers as a much-loved travel writer. But between eccentric voyages, he ...
SYLVAN MISHIMA BRACKETT's debut cookbook RINTARO demystifies Japanese food for home cooks with over 70 recipes for ...
This year sees a plethora of books about musicians and the industry hitting the shelves. Good Reading takes a look ...
Spiders. I don’t mind them, except for maybe one particular type. I know some people who literally freak out at ...
Love stylish interior design and also have passion for furry felines? Then you might love House Cat by PAUL ...
A new novel in the Kay Scarpetta series is hitting the shelves. Good Reading caught up with Patricia Cornwell to ...
Sophie Kinsella, the queen of romantic comedy, tells Good Reading about her new novel, The Burnout, and how ...
DAMIEN LEWIS is a photographic artist who loves history and the wonderful things we no longer use.
In his book ...
Until well into the 20th century, hundreds of jilted lovers in Australia, came before the courts to claim ...
In an elegant blend of 'polemic, industrial history, nautical writing, elegy and ecology', The Two-Headed Whale ...
In Rogue Corporations QUENTIN BERESFORD takes us inside corporate Australia’s highest-profile scandals and the ...
What better defines a city than its street corners? A corner gives you a starting point, a destination and a place ...
The Earthshot Prize: A Handbook for Dreamers and Thinkers is an empowering and practical handbook for young ...
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This is the killer first line in this monumentally brilliant Let Us Descend: ‘The first weapon I ever held was my ...
A new novel by Christos Tsiolkas is cause for great curiosity. His body of work is nothing if not diverse. The ...
Broad River Station follows the story of Mia, a newly graduated constable who, on her first post, is assigned to ...
The Sugar Palace is the new historical romance that weaves elements of suspense, making it a treat for fans of the ...
Heather Winterbottom is in the process of ‘moving on’ with life. She's into retirement, after she and her husband, ...
Into Your Arms is the second short story collection using the work of Australian singer-songwriters as a ...
The battle of Passchendaele, which took place from July to September 1917, was marked by heavy rain, turning the ...
Kate Mosse has been a lover of adventure books since her father read them to her as a little girl. The Ghost Ship, ...
The Rust Red Land is about life and death on the land in Australia. The first chapter, in fact, shows how the ...
To read The Wren, The Wren is to enter a mercurial landscape. By turns bleak, stark, deeply disturbing, then ...
Auguste Duchene realises that the task to track down a Gestapo Oberführer for the French and Americans is one that ...
Forget everything you know about the first Melbourne Cup and its winner before you immerse yourself in this ...
One Day We're All Going to Die is a raw, unfiltered, emotional read that puts the Jewish faith, customs and ...
Connected across time, four women symbolise the plight of the individual in a world run amok. A conception of ...
Olivie Blake has tackled dark academia and Shakespeare retellings, and now she’s trying her hand at quirky, ...
Sci-fi is a crowded field and all too often what is served up is formulaic and/or badly written. This is ...
Garth Nix is the author of the bestselling ‘Old Kingdom Series’ and The Left-handed Booksellers of London. This ...
Emily is searching for her beautiful, wayward cousin, Aspen, who hasn’t been heard from in months. Travelling to ...
Think of a quintessential Australian actor, and Bryan Brown would be on your shortlist. Laconic, with subtle ...
DS Lucas Walker is on compassionate leave in his hometown in outback Caloodie. He is home to care for his dying ...
La Maison des Fleurs is an upmarket brothel in Sydney’s Paddington in the 1930s run by Peggy O’Sheehan, otherwise ...
A whodunnit with a twist doesn’t begin to describe Dann McDorman’s West Heart Kill. While there are twists ...
Darling Girls is a story of sisterhood and survival, constructed with Hepworth’s expert tension and pacing. Itt ...
The title refers to the name of a winery around Mudgee, run by Oliver Wingfield. The winery consistently wins ...
If you are a ‘Jack Reacher’ fan, then drop everything and read this book right now. Fearless by M W Craven is an ...
There are two narrators for When One of Us Hurts: Livvy, aged 14, and her de facto step-mother, Marie. Port ...
The Man Who Wasn’t There recounts Dan Box’s investigation of the imprisonment of Zak Grieve for the murder of Ray ...
Finding the fire to keep going when all seems lost is a common dilemma for more people than the world probably ...
If you’ve visited the nightclubs of Kings Cross, you’ll probably know of Tom Nash, aka DJ Hookie. For those ...
Donna Leon is the author of 32 novels featuring Guido Brunetti, a Commissario di Polizia of the City of Venice. ...
Storytellers is more than just a book about gathering and disseminating information, and the title is ...
You don’t have to be a twitcher to use this book. In fact, it’s not designed for the knowledgeable bird lover or ...
Most people would know Hannah Moloney as a presenter on Gardening Australia on ABC TV. She is the one with the ...
Some humorous stories are just funny enough to make the reader smile; others actually make the reader cringe; but ...
If you love recipes that are easy to follow but don’t shy away from flavour, you might find a new favourite in ...
There’s Always Room for Cheese is an aptly named cookbook by Colin Wood and a thought I often have when I choose ...
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