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Anita Heiss on the Importance of Going Home
Wiradjuri writer, ANITA HEISS, has published a wide range of book from fiction, non-fiction to children’s books. She has worked in remote communities as a role model, encouraging young Indigenous Australians to write their own stories and has performed her own work and lectured on Aboriginal literature across the globe.
Her new novel, Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray (which translates to River of Dreams) draws on true events and timeless Wiradjuri country to ...
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Features
When I was a bookseller, way back then, the shelves in the health section were always laden with dozens of diet ...
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May 2021 Crossword Answers
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gr chatted with Susanne Gervay on her new YA novel Heroes of the Secret Underground, and how it was inspired by ...
Night Blue is a debut novel like no other, a narrative largely told in the voice of the painting Blue Poles. It ...
gr chatted to Irish-born author James Delargy to talk ghost towns, Western Australia, and Vanished, the ...
gr's resident book and film buff Clive Hodges reviews The Last Vermeer, a film adaptation of The Man who Made ...
gr's resident book and film buff Clive Hodges reviews Mama Weed, based on the novel The Godmother by Hannelore ...
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Every family has its secrets, no matter what its socio-economic class. Reddan has used her own background of ...
In Devon Destri, debut author Stuart Everly-Wilson has created one of the most unforgettable characters I have ...
Anya is trying to reconcile her past trauma of escaping her war-torn home in Sarajevo as a child, with her ...
America is becoming more divided due to its overwhelming social and political issues. These issues are rooted in ...
This novel is centred on three women attending ‘the performance’ of a Samuel Beckett play during a horrific ...
It’s been six years since the release of Ishiguro’s previous novel, The Buried Giant. The waiting has been ...
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This is a collection of 17 short stories (some very short) from the author of my pick for the breakout book of ...
A Room Called Earth is the debut novel from writer and filmmaker Madeleine Ryan, which was written as she ...
In Spufford’s majestic debut novel, Golden Hill, the surprise twist came at the end. In this, his second novel, ...
Port Arthur. Two very loaded words. I went there seven years after the massacre and didn’t make it through the ...
After suffering several miscarriages and the loss of her parents, Helen is finally attending her first antenatal ...
Windsor Horne Lockwood, or ‘Win’ for short, is a well-heeled American man who constantly reminds us that he is ...
Her Majesty The Queen spends a month at Windsor for the Easter Court. She takes the opportunity to entertain in ...
We first meet Marcus Valentine on his way to work. Marcus is a middle-aged obstetrician living on the island of ...
Since jolting readers with his first ‘Jack Parlabane’ tale back in the mid-1990s, Chris Brookmyre has delivered ...
I have been fortunate to attend more author events than I care to admit and without fail it is the crime ...
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German thriller writer, Sebastian Fitzek, is a massive name across Europe. But until recently his mega-selling ...
Internationally bestselling Irish novelist and screenwriter, Jo Spain, keeps readers off-balance in her ...
In recent years Helen Fitzgerald rose to greater prominence thanks to the hit TV drama The Cry, based on her ...
As I expected yet another variation on the theme of ‘go to India to find yourself ’, it was refreshing to read ...
This is not a comfortable book to read. And it is also difficult to categorise. Is it a memoir; a loving ...
David Chang, the face of the uber-successful restaurant chain, Momofuku, appears to have been dragged away from ...
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This series of essays, dating from 1994 to the present, hits you right in the face from the jump. To call it ...
Each time you misplace your glasses or your car keys, or forget where you parked your car at the shopping ...
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson
The importance of the subject matter in this book cannot be overstated. This is the story of biochemist and ...
In A Banquet of Consequences Reloaded we get the world view of an apostate investment banker, and a very grim ...
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This is a terrific little book for any kid who might like to be a journalist.
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lf and Berra are very good friends. They do everything together except when Ulf goes to visit his grandfather to ...
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Where land becomes sky
and the sky becomes sea,
I first saw the whale and
the whale first saw me.
And high on ...
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