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Win Every Wild Soul
On Tasmania's wild and remote Maria Island, eighteen-year-old Min is trying to break free from her controlling, overly protective father, the island's head ranger. Her unlikely ally is Werner, an eccentric, homeless biologist who has always taught her to care for the imperilled natural world around her - even as it sets them against Piers, her father, who has his own plans. When Lucie, a journalist haunted by her family's role in the thylacine's extinction, ...
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Features
I’m reading a very interesting book called The Address Book. What inspired Deirdre Mask to write this book was a ...
Our book club selection for August is The Last Migration by CHARLOTTE MCCONAGHY. Send us your questions you'd like ...
London-based bestselling crime author, LOUISE CANDLISH, is releasing her 14th book this month, The Other ...
gr spoke to first-time author Anna Downes about her thriller The Safe Place, and the challenges of writing while ...
Author Natasha Lester says of KAYTE NUNN's new book, The Silk House, that 'The titular Silk House is at ...
In his work KYLE PERRY encounters stories and journeys that would fill 100 books. Kyle’s mother grew up in the ...
KERRY MCGINNIS was born in Adelaide and at the age of 12 took up a life of droving with her father and four ...
In One Punch BARRY DICKENS reflects on the many types of violence that can now affect everyday life. In his ...
Every Stranger's Eyes is the first in a series of books telling the incredible true story behind the acclaimed, ...
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Reviews
The history of colonial Australia, for my boomer generation, was essentially taught as which white man ...
Every day across Australia and around the world news broadcasts include reports of accidents and emergencies, ...
What’s Left of Me Is Yours is a commendable debut by Stephanie Scott. Set in Tokyo, the novel provides an in-depth ...
A mere 100 pages into this extraordinary book, one character says, ‘Everyone gets everything from a novel.’ ...
In the late 17th century, somewhere in the Baltic region, a young woman named Marta worked her family fields. She ...
Everyone loves a good fable, and this is an Armenian beauty. There is an old Armenian saying that the three apples ...
Love after Love starts with an act of domestic violence against Trinidadian Betty and her son, Solo. Betty’s ...
After ‘discovering’ what is now known as Botany Bay in 1770, Captain Cook and the Endeavour made an emergency stop ...
When I left university, I knew everything. After starting work in my chosen profession, I realised I knew nothing. ...
Eileen’s husband walked out on her with the dance instructor four months ago and she wants to restart her romantic ...
I suppose there is at least one thing to be grateful for in this tale of a time-travelling woman. She does not ...
If I’d come across Amy McDaid’s Fake Baby in a bookstore I would probably have passed it over as the cover blurb ...
There are minefields within this novel through which both the characters and author must weave. For author Sujata ...
Remote landscapes are often the source of legends and sometimes have the power to summon up irrational fears. In ...
In 1997, a phone call from Isla Green’s father pulls her back home to Australia for the first time in a decade. ...
Katie Straw's lifeless body has been dragged from the water below a bridge. It’s a known suicide spot.
Although ...
Award-winning storyteller Kali White was inspired to write her first crime novel by memories of her childhood ...
As Dick Smith writes, in praise of this book: ‘It’s a cracking story about the famous Australian radio engineer ...
This memoir by an Indian-born writer is cheerfully honest about how he tried to adapt to Australia when his family ...
As the former editor of Vogue in the UK for 25 years, this author could easily have written a tell-all book about ...
Malcolm Turnbull’s hefty memoir makes for an undeniably interesting read. However, the story of Turnbull’s life is ...
Sandi Toksvig, host of a TV quiz show popular in the UK and Australia called QI, has written a quirky memoir. ...
I’ll make chicken soup!’ It’s the go to remedy when we discover someone is not feeling well. Jenn Louis says that ...
Most of us have phobias that can be inconvenient, but don’t debilitate us too much. But what do you do when your ...
The XX Brain is a deep dive into the female brain and the degradation of our brain health as we age. Did you know ...
When I think back to my childhood, our family dog’s life was so different then. There were few houses with fences. ...
As a young teen who loved reading, I was desperate for a way into the classics that didn’t begin with reading Jane ...
Anna K. has it all. Seventeen years of good looks, riches, humour, friends, companions. Her life could not be more ...
The Book of Chance follows the story of Chance Callahan who lives her life like any other down in The Gong (that ...
Alba is in fourth grade and spends a lot of time in the library with her best friend Levi. She has a foot that she ...
In the conclusion to the ‘Kid Normal’ series, Murph Cooper and his gang of ‘Super Zeroes’ face their toughest ...
If you’ve walked along an ocean beach or gone for a swim in any of our oceans you have probably seen jellyfish ...
The Unstoppable Letty Pegg is an historical fiction novel that gives an insight into the early women’s rights ...
This little book with it’s very appealing faery-like cover is just perfect for readers who love ‘once upon a time’ ...
The Little Tulip Orphanage in Amsterdam had three Rules of Abandonment and not once had those rules been broken – ...
Fabio, the world’s greatest flamingo detective, arrives at his office one morning to discover an incredibly quiet ...
It’s very easy for us to take our brain for granted. We talk and walk and think and feel and breathe without a ...
Did you know that worms, grasshoppers and ants existed way back when the dinosaurs roamed the Earth? And did you ...
No-one will forget the fires of the summer of 2019/20. The scenes of fleeing people and wildlife. When the fire ...
Down by the seashore a giant stands, looking across the water, as she had been doing for a very long time. On the ...
Did you know that a mummy donkey is called jenny and a mummy kangaroo is called a flyer? Well, this little picture ...
Here’s another animal picture book with a difference. It invites us to slow down. And that is how I feel as I turn ...
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