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Win Backstabbers
Never turn your back on a friend.
Jade, Stef and Zoe are hiking Washington’s Bones Hollow Trail, braving cougars, snakes and the storms that roll in without warning. The friends’ paranoia isn’t helped by listening to a true crime podcast about the serial killer whose hunting ground they’re hiking through.
Then when Stef twists her ankle – badly – there’s no one to hear them scream for help. The only sign of life for miles is a cabin that looks straight ...
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I hate mosquitoes. Truly, I really do. Unfortunately they just love me in return. Now I know why. In a new book, ...
For Miles Franklin shortlister PHILIP SALOM, ideas come from unlikely places. It was walking around his hometown ...
Belfast-born scribe McKinty spent the past decade living in Melbourne and penning brilliant novels set against ...
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The Little Wave
Pip Harry
When a Manly school sets out to bring a country class to the city for ...
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Koe’s first novel is primarily focused on three characters: the anti-Nazi German actress, Marlene Dietrich; the ...
Augusta Hope lives in Willow Crescent, Hedley Green, with her twin sister, Julia, and her parents. Augusta doesn’t ...
You’re never too old to enjoy a fairytale, right? At its heart, The Blue Rose is a fairytale romance that has ...
What a wonderful romp of a novel. Yet underlying this glorious road story is tragedy, and the story of farm ...
Abbie wakes up in a hospital room, disoriented and hooked up to a variety of beeping machines. She panics. ...
There are many different ways authors can grab readers from the first page: an intriguing opening line, stark ...
Three women. Three different desires. All Lina ever wanted was to be desired but she’s ended up with a husband who ...
There’s a compelling honesty about this memoir by a 30-something Australian journalist describing his forays into ...
In the latter half of the 11th century, a young woman was born into a Viking Norman family in France. She would ...
This story is of a road-trip that takes place over 10 days. Daphne, the central character and narrator, is close ...
Georgia has just about given up on love, and so is unsurprised when the Tinder date she has arranged fails to show ...
Joe and Anne met during their university days and begin a passionate love affair that lasts a lifetime. Now ...
In the midst of a bomb explosion, a woman with no memory staggers out and gets taken to a hospital to recuperate. ...
Alastair is 62 and has spent months travelling after losing his larger than life wife, Orla. His anticipated ...
Sydney author Michael Robotham has long been one of the leading lights in modern Australian crime writing. In ...
Set in a not too distant future, we first meet young antiquarian bookseller Cameron Raybould amongst the shelves ...
Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock is back. Her career continues to rise but her personal life remains as chaotic ...
Exhalation is Ted Chiang’s second sci-fi short story anthology. His first anthology was the basis for the 2016 ...
Wollongong author Chloe Higgins began writing her memoir The Girls during a stint in a psychiatric ward. Years ...
Patrice Newell farms olive oil, garlic, honey and beef. She thought life on the farm would be an escape from the ...
At the beginning of this book we meet David and his wife, T, who have recently moved from their inner city house ...
This is a book Benjamin Law wishes he’d had when he was growing up gay in Australia. To ensure today’s youngsters ...
From a genetic defect in sheep (used for the title of this book) to the laconically labelled ‘business at ...
The Reverend Willie Maxwell lived in Alabama in the 1970s. He was a fiery preacher, a family man, proud of his ...
In Australia, one woman is killed every week by an intimate partner. Investigative reporter Jess Hill estimates ...
Janneke didn’t live like the other girls in her village. The youngest of her father’s daughters, she’s brought up ...
Philip Reeves’s book Mortal Engines was an instant success when it was first published in 2001. A raft of awards ...
Anna’s favourite book is about Hitty, an old wooden doll. Inspired by the story, she is determined to find an ...
Winnie Foster’s family owned Treegap, the wood that grew across the road from their house. It was a place of deep ...
Fernwood Community Centre is located in West Bottom the slightly dystopian suburb of Dren. Many of the young who ...
It’s 1898 and Red Read, of Smuggler’s Curse Hotel, finds himself at Boarding School in Perth. While trying to ...
If you are planning a trip with children by car, train or even plane, then this nifty little box of cards is just ...
When I was in primary school I was taught that Australian Aborigines were nomads, wandering from place to place ...
Mud, mud, glorious mud ... so goes the famous ‘Hippopotamus Song’. For this author, it is not so much the mud ...
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