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Head in the Clouds
Seven years on from All the Light We Cannot See, Pulitzer Prize winning author ANTHONY DOERR has returned with Cloud Cuckoo Land, an epic, century-spanning tale about the power of stories to connect us.
As HEATHER LEWIS writes, it’s an important and prescient tale about the marks we leave on the world around us.
We all get to that point in life where we start to think about what we might leave behind – for our kids, for the world. After all, with pandemic ...
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Features
ANNA DOWNES is a writer and actress with a long list of credits which include notable shows such as the ...
CHRIS HAMMER was a leading journalist with a career spanning over 30 years as a political and foreign ...
Good Reading spoke to TANIA BLANCHARD a historical fiction writer who previously brought you The Girl from ...
JAMES ROXBURGH works as an audiologist who specialises in treating the elderly. Over the course of his 10-year ...
The Unusual Abduction of Avery Conifer by ILSA EVANS is an unexpected and moving story which follows the lives of ...
Writing duo Nicci Gerrard and Sean French have written over 20 novels together under the pseudonym NICCI ...
Three Sisters is a novel based on the incredible true story of sisters, Cibi, Magda and Livia. The sisters were ...
Into the Rip is an inspiring story about American journalist DAMIEN CAVE and his family as they navigate their new ...
Good Reading caught up with award winning and best-selling author TRICIA STRINGER. Her books include The Family ...
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Reviews
A deeply disturbing insight into a deeply disturbing mind, and you have front row tickets to the show. Gigi ...
Peter ‘Plum’ Lum is a retired NRL footy star. After a lifetime of being adulated for his sporting prowess, he ...
This beautiful, heartbreaking book raises important questions about this planet on which we live, its life ...
Michaela is 18. She’s just finished high school in Canberra and scores a scholarship to a prestigious Sydney ...
This is a fabulous book. It’s a wonderfully whimsical narrative, following the travails of a zoo in Rome, and ...
This is most wonderfully unexpected – a contemporary American writer flawlessly capturing the lives of nuns in ...
Set during the American Civil War this novel begins as Gorgeanne, with her sister, Eliza, travels south to see ...
There’s a certain frisson which comes from someone whose knowledge and enthusiasm for a subject translates into ...
Indigenous lawyer Jasmine takes her mother, Della, on a tour of England’s most famous literary sites. Della has ...
Quirky. Eleven short stories about characters who don’t quite fit in, placed in narrative situations which ...
Michael, a screenwriter, has returned from two years working abroad to see his mother before she dies. She was ...
This debut novel tells the story of ex-teacher, aspiring writer, and mother, Ali, who reflects upon her childhood ...
If two writers met in Berlin, would the narrative be literary, or would its setting be used as a backdrop for a ...
The Wattle Island Book Club is another worthy edition to Sandie Docker’s library of published books. Told ...
This novel tells the coming of age story of Luisa, who lives in a German village, surrounded by an eccentric ...
Greta, Joel and their three sons arrive at Joel’s family property in the Northern Territory. They are a family ...
The title’s reference to beauty is in the past tense, as the environment in this novel has been rendered toxic ...
This collection of short stories has the fragile shell of masculinity in its sights. The intent is evident from ...
This novel by French Korean author Elisa Shua Dusapin follows the daily life of a young woman in the seaside ...
This novel is a modern-day exploration of grief, love, and friendship among a group of late 20-year-olds living ...
Ruby May’s excellent job as a nurse to the daughter of a wealthy London family comes to an end when the family ...
The Liquid Land is a daring and surreal nightmare that lingers long after you turn the final page.
Raphaela ...
Silver Tears is the second book in the ‘Faye’s Revenge’ series following on from The Golden Cage. It is a ...
In 1986 a widowed grandmother began a relationship with her neighbour and her husband’s friend. She was later ...
Looking for a great Australian police murder mystery? Then The Orchard Murders is the book for you.
Set in ...
People didn’t get murdered in Kiama. Least of all people like Lily Williams. That is until Marlowe, an intern ...
This is the final book in a trilogy, the first two being Gentlemen and Players and Different Class. It’s not ...
If you’re a fan of well-written psychological thrillers, then you really should be reading Megan Abbott. The ...
Writers have had various reactions to being in lockdown: some have found the isolation beneficial; others have ...
This memoir could be hugely depressing, as it describes generational trauma and a dysfunctional family in New ...
I first became aware of the fate of the Tasmanians and the Black Wars when doing a history project at high ...
The author has Egyptian heritage, emigrating here as a child. Her father (Baba) nurtures his Egyptian roots; ...
This is an interesting mix of memoir and essay, replete with history, botany, psychology and philosophy, ...
In the past, if you wanted information about new acquaintances, you checked their bookshelves. No more - iPads, ...
In this travel memoir Richards sets out to do the longest train journey in Australia without backtracking. He ...
As I write this the Taliban are having themselves photographed in the presidential palace in Kabul. They are ...
Scarlett McCain is a headstrong, courageous, and slightly stubborn outlaw living in the wild woods of a ...
The Lake is set at scorching hot Camp Pine Lake where previous campers, Kayla and Esme, have been recruited as ...
Starting Grade 7 hasn’t been easy for star swimmer Bridget ‘Bee’ Ballentine, so she turns to her Buddha statue ...
The Last Bear is action packed with amazing adventures around the Arctic and follows the unusual friendship ...
At the end of Monstrous Devices, Alex had defied his grandfather’s instructions and not destroyed the little ...
One of the great things about this graphic novel for primary school-age kids is that it is not too dark and ...
The old industrialist was dying. He turned to his sons:
‘All this will soon be yours, respect what I have built ...
Ivy couldn’t get to sleep,
her mind was burning bright,
I’m done with counting sheep, she thought,
I’ll paint ...
If you’ve had the pleasure of meeting Norton and Bear before, then you’ll know they are quite good friends. ...
It is a lightning strike that starts a fire at Two People’s Bay.
Fierce flames tear through the scrub:
Roaring, ...
Ten tired teachers are finished for the day,
The kids have gone, the homework’s marked, the chairs are tucked ...
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