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Daughter of The River Country by Dianne O’Brien
Daughter of the River Country is a memoir of survival and triumph from Yorta Yorta woman, community leader and Mingaletta CEO DIANNE O’BRIEN. As HEATHER LEWIS writes, it’s an amazing story of an incredible woman’s fighting spirit in holding onto what is important: family and identity.
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’ is an oft-repeated phrase, but it’s not really universal. Trauma is complex – what can dominate a person’s thoughts, actions and ...
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Features
So many interesting non-fiction books have crossed my desk lately. Being Heumann: The unrepentant memoir of a ...
Daring to Fly is an inspiring story of conquering fear and finding joy, from one of Australia’s finest ...
Albert Namatjira is the story of the Western Arrernte man who pioneered modern Indigenous Australian art. Told in ...
Let's dip into the first pages of Cutters End to give you a taste of what’s to come.
A desert highway. A remote ...
NARRELLE M HARRIS has published a number of books featuring the great Sherlock Holmes and his side-kick, John ...
Paris, 1939: While working at the Louvre, Eliane Dufort falls for talented painter Xavier. But when the Nazis ...
The New Kingdom is a brand-new 'Egyptian' novel from the master of adventure fiction, Wilbur Smith. Read on for an ...
Tom Percival is a writer and artist, who has written many picture books for children. His book, Tilda Tries ...
From the author of The Dogs That Made Australia, GUY HULL, comes The Ferals That Ate Australia.
About the ...
CSI Told You Lies is a surprisingly moving account of the real forensic pathologists at the frontline of ...
LUCY ADLINGTON is a dress historian, author, and presenter who has an extensive background in researching social ...
Eve Dallas is a cop who believes in the valour of protect and serve - and kicks ass doing it
For a Homicide cop, ...
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Reviews
Apples Never Fall and neither does the quality of Liane Moriarty’s writing. Her latest book is true Moriarty with ...
Bio-fiction, in which authors fictionalise the lives of historical figures, has matured into its own genre. Hilary ...
Inti Flynn leads a team of biologists who have released 14 grey wolves into the remote Scottish Highlands as part ...
This is a collection of short stories that addresses the zeitgeist of our times: climate change and global ...
Hillman’s prose entices devouring. His latest novel, The Bride of Almond Tree, is a heartwarming story of love and ...
This book is a love story – it is a love story with Vienna, with classical Austrian music composers, with German ...
Beautifully written, The Paper Palace spans the decades of the main character’s life, detailing the influences ...
It’s obvious from the first page that Joan Silber is a writer in complete control of her craft. This is a ...
The female rulers of Russia in years past were a feisty and strong lot, and this novel of the young woman who ...
This book has a most original premise. It is based on the UK charity, Fine Cell Work, operating in British prisons ...
The opening chapter of The Airways creates suspense and mystery. Someone is walking home at night. Time slows and ...
After watching Guy Schermerhorn and Sam on TV the night before, Aimee does not think twice about taking the flyer ...
If you’ve ever been part of a group where you’ve felt left out, you’ll understand the basis of this prize-winning ...
India, 1929 – to be a woman is to be little more than a possession. The nation is riot-torn, with the Hindu ...
Take an Australian writer of romantic novels whose own love life is a disaster; add a letter from England telling ...
Last year, heist thriller-cum-rural noir Blacktop Wasteland was arguably the crime novel of the year, and its ...
Erin Sloane left Southport when she was 16, traumatised after her high school classmate Andre Villiers was ...
The Dempsey family have ruled over the small community of Shacktown on the Tasmanian Peninsula, running their ...
When she was a junior journalist, Oli Groves reported on the Housemate Homicide, a mystery that fascinated ...
When public prosecutor Chastity Riley takes the lift up to the 20th-storey bar of a hotel by the Hamburg docks for ...
Poppy McGowan is the accidental detective in this whodunnit with a difference. In the throes of renovating her ...
We first met Maggie in Bergmoser’s The Hunted. Maggie is an engaging psychopath, latter-day Fury, agent of ...
For those of you not familiar with Aaronovitch’s ‘Rivers of London’ series, they are fantasy crime mysteries ...
As he is (primarily) a horror writer, Stephen King has come up with outlandish premises. But a common thread is ...
This is an incredibly moving memoir that follows renowned indie artist Michelle Zauner as she navigates her ...
Leonard Maltin isn’t as well known in Australia or New Zealand as he is in the US. He produced those yearly ...
In 1941 about 120 000 persons of Japanese ancestry lived on the US mainland, mostly along the Pacific Coast. About ...
Until 1846, surgery was performed without anaesthesia’ writes Dr Christine Ball in the introduction to her ...
Good books about neuroscience and psychology remind us that the brain is just another organ in service to the ...
Edmund de Waal wrote The Hare with Amber Eyes,a memoir of the Ephrussi family. Letters to Camondo is about another ...
The world is populated by millions of people who do not understand each other’s beliefs, or want to know about ...
Only a few years ago China was seen in Australian business circles as the mother lode. Chinese investment, Chinese ...
It’s been 34 years since the publication of The Satanic Verses. That triumph/ milestone remains Rushdie’s ...
Malcolm Gladwell describes this book about American bomber squadrons in World War II as ‘… a case study in how ...
This mind-bending mashup of Romeo and Juliet meets Wuthering Heights makes us question; what would have happened ...
After an atomic event threatens civilisation, a new world order is established where self-expression is ...
This autobiography truly encapsulates the life of an inspirational woman. Michelle Obama recounts her life, ...
House of Hollow is about three normal sisters who disappeared from a suburban street in Scotland. They were gone ...
Sofie Laguna is an extremely talented writer who has won awards for both her adult and children’s books, including ...
If you’re young and have a love of science then you may already have Double Helix, published by the CSIRO, tucked ...
US-born Sila and her Turkish refugee father Alp have their world turned upside down when Sila’s Mum, Oya, is ...
Walk with us through one of the Top End’s magnificent monsoon forests, in Kakadu National Park, learning about the ...
Just when I thought that we knew all there was to know about dinosaurs, this little book comes along absolutely ...
Within the pages of this book are seven inspiring stories about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from ...
In this book Kunyi tells her story how she lived with her mum at a camp near Oodnadatta in South Australia. Her ...
Magoo! Magoo?
Where are you, Magoo?
Out in the garden,
Next to the shed …
Under the clothes line …
In my new ...
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