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Annie Drum on Don’t Forget to Remember Me
Don't Forget to Remember Me by ANNIE DRUM is a heartfelt coming-of-age novel about first love, identity and the value of true friendship.
Read on for a Q&A with the author.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Thirteen-year-old Starling 'Star' Cooney lives with her grandfather, Roy, in Rocky Point. She has not made any friends that is, until new student Bronte arrives. Then Roy disappears, and Star must decide who to trust as she searches for her ...
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Features
Jennifer Somerville reviews Growing up Aboriginal in Australia, an anthology compiled by author of Am I Black ...
Based on original research by Liz Harfull, her new book Tried, Tested and True celebrates the amazing stories ...
I have been exploring different streets while walking Baxter around my local suburb recently. And I’ve come across ...
The fragility and strength of handcrafted fine lace shawls provide a metaphor for human endurance in Australian ...
Perth-based writer and editor SUSAN MIDALIA’s debut novel draws inspiration from the sharply observed, ...
The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards began in 2008, and have honoured and encouraged the work of Australian ...
In A Certain Light, Cynthia Banham trains her journalist’s eye on her Italian ancestry and the plane crash she ...
Film review by Clive Hodges
A London writer forms a bond with the members of a book club on the island of ...
Brisbane writer Emily O’Grady, 26, has won The Australian/Vogel’s Literary Awards with her novel The Yellow ...
When Andy and Mel’s double date turns into a snuff film, Andy fights back, killing one of her attackers, leading ...
Melbourne-based writer JAY CARMICHAEL grew up in the Victorian town of Waaia, population 70. His debut novel, ...
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Reviews
Emily Dean, a 15-year-old schoolgirl in 1944, is reluctantly taking a train journey from her home in Melbourne to ...
What an absolute delight this debut novel is. Told in diary form, it is the story of Ursula Flight, born to a ...
This first novel by a young Canadian author is about art, bees and love, but it is so much more than just that. ...
Reading this novel is like watching a rabbit caught in the headlights of a vehicle. There’s an awful fascination, ...
The Toymakers is about two young boys, Kaspar and Emil. They are working in Papa Jack’s Toy Emporium. The Emporium ...
Jaxie Clackton sprints into the mulga after he finds his violent father crushed under the Hilux after his dodgy ...
Louisa Clark has moved from London to New York and works as personal assistant to wealthy Mrs Gopnik. She steps ...
The Fortress, a society run and populated by women known as the Vaik, is built on the four guiding principles of ...
Singer songwriter turned novelist Willy Vlautin specialises in a kind of bleak Americana that is so grim it ...
This author is an Australian emergency physician working at an inner-city Perth hospital, far removed from the red ...
Ten pages into this tale I was hooked.
At the great battle of the Answearie Hills, the Five Great Kingdoms ...
Mycroft Canner is an unlikely hero in a 25th century world where genetic engineering and redefined social ...
The murder in a Melbourne lane of a young woman on 22 November 1930 still resonates down the years. Haigh, an ...
In Search of Lost Books is a book about books that could have been and perhaps should have been but never came to ...
On the front cover of On Borrowed Time there is a sub title, ‘from Australia’s leading public intellectual’. It is ...
Desmond Robert ‘Bill’ Leak, an award-winning Australian editorial cartoonist, died in March 2017, aged 61. The ...
In May 1940, Britain declared war on Germany, Neville Chamberlain resigns and Winston Churchill becomes Prime ...
Were it not dry February when I read this, this would have been a sobering read. Daniel Ellsberg was an insider in ...
Anzackery notwithstanding, there was a moment in world history when Australian soldiers really did make a ...
Zeze is a precocious five-year-old, with a wonderful imagination and a mischievous spirit. He needs all of that, ...
Mary wants to win a Nobel Prize when she’s grown up, but she doesn’t know how it’s done. Then, by a stroke of ...
Stick Insect is in love. He has met the most beautiful stick insect he has ever seen. He woos his new sweetheart ...
If you’ve already met Lucy Cousin’s delightfully friendly character, Little Fish, then you’ll be excited that she ...
If you’ve already met Lucy Cousin’s delightfully friendly character, Little Fish, then you’ll be excited that she ...
Macca is a rather small and very friendly alpaca.
His whole life is filled with having fun and being lovely to ...
The eighth of May is a date that Jonah would like to forget. That day, two years ago, his mum was knocked off her ...
It’s 1961 and Cuba has begun a new chapter in its history, led by Fidel Castro. He has promised the world that all ...
La Belle Sauvage is the first volume in ‘The Book of Dust’ companion trilogy and set in an alternate-world Oxford ...
Bo Mitchell lives in a small country town where everyone knows everyone else. He thinks it’s a tight community ...
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