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Witching Hour – Christy Anne Jones on Theodora’s Tea Shop
Christy Anne Jones is a speculative fiction writer, illustrator, reviewer and author of an illustrated memoir. Theodora’s Tea Shop is her debut novel and is a 1920s-inspired fantasy filled with magic and friendship.
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Features
Over the last 25 years, I’ve slipped in and out of reading hiatuses more times than I’d probably admit in these ...
Christy Anne Jones is a speculative fiction writer, illustrator, reviewer and author of an illustrated memoir. ...
Shannon Kelly-White is a blog creator and author of three non-fiction books. Her debut novel, Billie King, is a ...
Some opening sentences are so memorable they have become part of literary history. From sweeping adventures and ...
Alex Sawyer's debut novel Rat Daniels won the 2023 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers. He sat down with Akina ...
Caught Reading – The Good Reading team share their favourite books
Compassionate, moving and quietly magical, Ben Reeves new book Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt asks us ...
We caught up with Danielle Binks to find out what she’s been reading and who she’d invite to dinner.
Kate Forsyth’s new book, The Changeling, is inspired by the true story of Scotland’s first witch-hunt and follows ...
To Rule a Ruler by KAARINA PARKER is the conclusion to her 'Fulvia' duology. Following the life of an influential ...
Whispering Death by Patricia Skehan follows the Australian-built Beaufighters and the legendary 93 Squadron. ...
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In the world in which this book is set, many of our current fears have come true: Nature is ruined, parents sell ...
In rural Ireland, near Trim in County Meath, a seven-year-old (unnamed) narrator waits to ambush a man he feels ...
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This lyrical family saga features a grandmother, a mother and a daughter, living through three seminal events in ...
Fred and Fran Taylor married while still teenagers and through a combination of luck, talent and opportunity, ...
Guinevere and Ennis Sharpe have a conflicted relationship with their mother, Edith. When they were kids, she ...
There are many types of love, but the bond between Daphne Fuller and her short-term, long-ago and long-lost ...
The Findlay family have a long history filled with secrets and tragedy, which the local community continue to ...
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A beautifully written and deeply moving modern love story, this novel is as much about emotional healing and ...
A 13-year-old girl accuses her father of rape. Her grandmother and priest tell her to change her story, but she ...
In 1911, Edwina Shaw’s great grandfather, Bill Williams, employed an itinerant worker to help on Williams’s farm ...
This is an intensely dark book – in tone and subject matter – so please read the trigger warnings and be prepared ...
This fantasy novel by Naomi Ishiguro is the first part of a trilogy. It is both recognisably Japanese and taps ...
Christmas Eve 1901: Sir William Waring, head of the Inner Temple in London, receives a parcel left on the doorstep ...
In 2000 Jane Trevally, 29 years old, had separated from her then husband. She was feeling wretched, drowning her ...
January Clare Colson, the narrator in this wonderful combination of verse novel and thriller, prefers to be called ...
Charlotte’s life couldn’t get any worse. Her nearest and dearest have all died in tragic ways, and she has fled ...
For a debut novel, this is an absolute cracker. Nicholas Timms clearly understands both surfing and the culture ...
Suzanna Vitale is awake and fearful. There’s a bushfire only 30km away, her eldest daughter isn’t home from ...
It seems I wasn’t the only reader eager for the next chapter in the story of New Zealand police sergeant Honey ...
Diving into a new novel starring Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett has become an annual tradition for plenty of ...
What do you do when someone is clearly trying to kill you, just as they have murdered three of your friends from ...
Best friends since they met, Benny and Joy are the co-hosts of a wildly successful comedy podcast, ‘This Story ...
Being greeted with the first line, ‘I’ve been underestimated my whole life,’ it certainly made me want to read ...
A well-written, fast-paced and highly topical thriller explores climate activism, political unrest and the ...
Grief and despair are inevitable after the death of a loved one. People experience this intense kind of loss in ...
In her early years, Olivia appears to have led a charmed life. Raised between Singapore and Indonesia in a ...
English teacher Brendan James Murray believes that ‘children today are being raised in a culture that devalues ...
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Until recently, corporal punishment – physical force intended to cause pain – was a typical practice in many ...
When someone mentions Lebanon or Beirut, what comes to mind?
Most of us without personal connection or ...
It seems the most challenging one-day cycle event in Australia is the Peaks Challenge, conducted over three peaks ...
Edward Chisholm has done it again! His earlier memoir, A Waiter in Paris, is a cracking first book worthy of ...
In The Alchemy of Leadership Paul Strangio takes us on a journey through recent Australian political history and ...
Events move swiftly in the world of despots. John Keane, Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney, ...
As researcher and author Adrian Woolfson explains in an Instagram post, ‘we’re actually at a unique point of the ...
If you’re a fan of singer Kate Bush, you might remember her 1985 song ‘Cloudbusting’, inspired by the curious life ...
Tambora is a fascinating historical study that explores the devastating 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in ...
The narrator in this campus novel isn’t named until later in the book. Although we may not know her name, we ...
Five years after Sarah Bailey has left us sobbing over The Housemate, a junior journalist is checking the emails ...
Many Australians know the story of the ill-fated ship, the Vyner Brooke, that sank in World War II under Japanese ...
There are only so many ways to retell well-known myths. Writers have (thankfully) subverted stories to focus on a ...
The intrepid Tea Ladies are back to solve a series of mysteries in The Model Murder.
Hazel, Betty, Merl and ...
There is no writer better than Elizabeth Strout at exploring emotional intelligence – revealing a character’s ...
Fussy eating: that curious battleground upon which so many otherwise harmonious households come dramatically ...
This reimagining of Frankenstein, The Unkillable Frank Lightning follows a doctor, occultist and widow: Catherine ...
Husbands Rodney and Don are on the trip of a lifetime. Their last trip together, as in less than thirty days, a ...
Frida and baby Fin head off for a new adventure: Baby Rhyme Time at the East Melbourne library. New mum Frida has ...
It’s 1899, and Sonia Wilson travels to the remote home of Dr William Halder to start work as a scientific ...
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