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Satanic Panic
Wild Place is the latest novel by CHRISTIAN WHITE, bestselling author of The Nowhere Child and The Wife and the Widow. As AKINA HANSEN writes, it’s a suspenseful and compelling story about fear, hysteria, and the ‘other’ in suburbia in the 1980s.
At the beginning of 2020, Australia and the rest of the world descended into an unprecedented health crisis. The emergence of COVID-19 prompted governments across the world to implement a range of health measures and ...
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Features
There are such great books being published towards the end of this year. Inspiration comes from every section of ...
A Year of Sundays is a cookbook for all occasions. BELINDA JEFFREY's provides a collection of recipes collected ...
ALAN CARTER is an award-winning writer and author of the popular 'Cato Kwong' novels and the Nick Chester novels. ...
American writer JANET EVANOVICH has written over 40 books. She is the author of the popular 'Stephanie Plum' ...
The Astonishing Chronicles of Oscar from Elsewhere by JACLYN MORIARTY is the fourth book in the magical and ...
The Stoning by PETER PAPATHANASIOU is a crime novel that follows Detective Sergeant Georgios ‘George’ Manolis as ...
The Book of Magic by ALICE HOFFMAN is the breathtaking conclusion to the much beloved 'Practical Magic' series. ...
Firestorm is an inspiring story by GREG MULLINS that recounts what it's like to be on the front line of ...
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Reviews
Hannah Kent’s latest novel is a distinct shift from her prior work in the historical fiction genre. While those ...
The cover of this novel says it all. Everything is upside down.
Simpson has previously written superb books ...
Robyn Mundy has set this story in the high Arctic, an area with which she is familiar, and the freezing atmosphere ...
For Franny Calderwood, 65, her grief at the sudden tragic death of her husband three years before has resulted in ...
This is an offering unlike Tsiolkas’s previous novels, although some themes will seem familiar.
The overarching ...
Living a life of solitude on a rocky island, Samuel, a light housekeeper, has eked out a desolate, frugal ...
Sahar, by her own admission is the ‘boring’ one. The practical one, not romantic. So, when she turns up out of the ...
It’s 1953 and Simon Putnam sits in his parents lounge room watching I Love Lucy. His mother has a migraine, and ...
This book has two storylines printed from each end so you can choose which story to read first. ‘Lili’ is a ...
Jen and Riley have been best friends since they met in kindergarten. They have since shared all the wonders of ...
Neil is a second generation American whose parents moved from India to the US in pursuit of a better life. During ...
This shortish novel, written in the second person, reads like a confessional from a straying husband to an angry ...
There’s something admirable about a writer composing a multigenerational saga. The congruent timelines, ...
Set in Victorian England, this new novel by Tremain continues to enhance her reputation as a historical fiction ...
Not too many writers can find a fresh angle on a World War II historical novel, but Timothy Schaffert has done ...
Ray Carney’s father was crooked, but Ray prides himself on being an upstanding citizen, ‘only slightly bent when ...
This is the second in Ann Cleeves’ ‘Two Rivers’ series featuring Detective Inspector Matthew Venn. As with her ...
Although described in some publicity as a cosy crime novel, Fromage is a little grittier than that. It is set in ...
The Bone Code is the 20th book in the ‘Temperance Brennan’ series, which follows forensic anthropologist ...
Heather Evans left home as a teenager and never enjoyed a great relationship with her mother, Colleen. Now she ...
Caroline Overington returns in this compelling thriller set in Sydney during the initial COVID-19 lockdown. It ...
Upon receiving this book to review, I admit I felt a little nonplussed. I had never watched any of the myriad of ...
The title says it all, really. Bishop’s biography of Annie Lock, missionary to Aboriginal people in many parts of ...
A young English woman arrives in the alien landscape of Western Australia from the gentle green slopes and ...
In Upheaval, Dodd and Ricketson have edited or written a series of articles that seek to document what it was like ...
I already care about farming. Both my wife and I grew up on farms and her family still farms in the Central West ...
John Marsden is one of the most treasured writers in Australia, and for good reason. Perhaps less known is that ...
Sir Anthony Seldon's impossible office is that of the Prime Minister of Britain. Seldon explores the lives, ...
The popularity of oral histories has exploded in the online age, especially, especially where the creative ...
Many of Paul Davies’ books are about cosmology, while others use his skill and understanding of some of the most ...
In Our Exceptional Friend Emma Shortis mounts a spirited attack on the wisdom of our alliance with the United ...
Although many taboos have developed around the topic of consent, it has received more affirmative attention ...
For those fans of Robin Stevens mourning the end of the ‘Murder Most Unladylike’ series, here is good news. This ...
Life certainly changes when you are looking down the barrel of a death sentence. Things that you wouldn’t have ...
This book is all about balance. Just like we need to be balanced when we walk or run or go up on our tippy toes or ...
When Dr Ward was a little boy he dreamed of being a fearless plant hunter and sailing the world. From his London ...
Back in 1979, Tulo Gordon recorded these stories and illustrated them. Now, in this new edition, his gorgeous ...
Vincent, Albert’s great-grandson, has written and illustrated the story of his great-grandfather’s life. He tells ...
Max’s mum has just told him that he’s going to have a new brother or sister. We meet the family, Max’s mum, ...
When I read on the back cover of this book that it’s ‘a somewhat factual introduction to birds found in ...
One ordinary Monday
At 9am precisely
Stella walked into Space Command.
‘Hello,’ she said
‘I’d like to become an ...
Noni the Pony stands under one tree and watches her two friends dance by the sea.
She gives three speckled hens a ...
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