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Ann Patchett on Moments in Life
These Precious Days is a collection of essays by the internationally prize-winning and bestselling author ANN PATCHETT. Ann provides us with an insightful and thoughtful collection of essays that examine the precariousness of life through exploring her own memories of friends, family, love, failure, success, and death. AKINA HANSEN reports.
The last two years has been an awakening of sorts for many. The reality that we are not invincible and that our ...
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Features
Here we are at the end of another very strange year. For many of us this year has been one of the most difficult ...
MICHAEL CONNELLY is the international bestselling author of 35 novels and was a former police reporter for the Los ...
OLIVIA MOLLY ROGERS was crowned Miss Universe Australia in 2017 and has worked as a model and speech pathologist. ...
KATE LANGBROEK is an Australian media personality who has worked across radio and television. Her new memoir Ciao ...
TONY MATTHEWS is a Welsh-Australian author who written over 30 books and has dedicated most of his adult life to ...
MARK WILLACY is a seven-time Walkley Award winning journalist. His new book Rogue Forces is an insiders’ story ...
STEPHEN FRY is an award-winning comedian, actor, presenter and director. He is also the bestselling author of four ...
COLLEEN HOOVER is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ugly Love, Maybe Someday, Maybe ...
JENNIFER CONGDON’s farm, Woodstock, has been in her family for several generations. Her connection to and passion ...
Tasmanian author KYLE PERRY and Snowy Mountains author SULARI GENTILL were each shortlisted for 2021 Ned Kelly ...
Tales from the Greek by JOHN HUGHES and MARCO LUCCIO has been an odyssey in the making as Good Reading ...
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Readers of Philippa McGregor and C J Sansom will love Walters’ gripping, historical novel that weaves politics, ...
Wuhan a huge historical tome (734 pages) addressing the horrors of the Japanese invasion of China in the late ...
This novel isn’t just a nod to Huckleberry Finn – it’s a warm and loving embrace. Huck travelled on the ...
For millennia, the Irish have been telling stories with insight and humour. Rooney proudly, confidently, continues ...
University student Will is dumped by his first true love, Laura. Heartbroken and humiliated, he impulsively flees ...
It is rare that a novel will deliver literal chills, but the twist in The Survivors was both superbly plotted and ...
After more than a year of living in a global pandemic, it’s hard to remember a time before COVID-19. Jodi ...
This is a little book that packs a huge punch aimed at the solar plexus of hierarchical pale-stale-male Britain. ...
I loved The Maid, a clever story that kept me guessing until the end despite my best efforts at working out ‘The ...
This is a moving, comedic, and dark glimpse into the lives of an unstable family and society. If you are familiar ...
The last lines of this exceptional novel (don’t worry, no spoilers) give the reader the best insight into the ...
If you like your stories brief, with a twist of oddity, then this collection of 17 predominantly speculative ...
When you look through the wrong end of a telescope, everything appears small and far away. Maybe that is how many ...
Liz Byrski’s latest novel is another heartwarming, compelling story centred around friendship and love, loss, ...
It’s hard enough for Tully and Rachel to get their head around the fact that their father, Stephen, is dating a ...
For almost thirty years Michael Connelly has been entertaining readers with gripping tales centred on relentless ...
Senior Constable Jesse Redpath is a local copper in the tiny central Australian town of Kulara. Jesse’s days are ...
For many years now Buenos Aires author Claudia P iñeiro has been renowned as the Latin American Queen of Crime, ...
After shattering British book sales records during the pandemic with his debut novel, TV quizmaster turned mystery ...
The Sûreté du Québec of which Detective Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is the Head of Homicide has surprisingly ...
Poisons of the chemical and moral kind are explored in this fascinating novel from Sergei Lebedev, where the Crown ...
There’s an old saying about tank water. While some city dwellers might panic about drinking it, country people ...
An anthology is a wondrous thing. It is the kind of book that almost compels the reader to keep dipping into its ...
Some people say there are no real characters left in the Australian bush. Not so, say the authors of this ...
Of all the reasons the hand of fate allowed people to survive the Holocaust, the ability to sew a straight seam, ...
There’s nothing like a pandemic to make you look at your situation. Life seems suspended and meaningless. Wendy ...
About the only thing missing from Haynes’ Great Furphies of Australian History is an explanation of the word ...
If you work in, have taken notice of, or know much about the fortunes of, the Australian media industry over the ...
Imagine discovering creatures that see with smell and hunt with electricity? Or solar-powered animals that grow ...
This account of life in a Chinese village by a former resident, a professor of Chinese literature at a Beijing ...
Everyone should read this book. That could simply be my whole review.
Anything But Fine follows Luca, a Year 11 ...
This is a magical, heart-warming story – beautifully packaged in a small hardback volume with a silver-embossed ...
Nadia Shireen is an British award-winning author and illustrator, and this is her first novel for primary readers. ...
Thirteen-year-old Carmichael Taylor lives with his mum, dad and brother, Malky, and attends Wainbridge Academy. ...
Earth's Aquarium is one of those beautifully illustrated oversized books that you could drool over all day. Each ...
If you’ve seen the movie Finding Nemo you’ll probably remember the odd but very friendly relationship between the ...
The night that Voltoid rose again
the moon was waxing red.
The software wolves were howling,
loud enough to wake ...
Greenland sharks are amazing. They live in very cold waters, at considerable depth, are huge and live for ...
There’s a young girl in this house who would love to invite you in, as she’s all alone and hasn’t had visitors for ...
When Cathy Freeman was growing up, she lived with her family in sunny Queensland. She tells us how much she loved ...
‘Way back,
before once-upon-a-time time,
there was The Dreamtime
and during this period lived a
very confident emu ...
This is what is called a touch-and-feel book. There’s an elephant’s big hairy ear to feel, a giraffe’s long hairy ...
The school of fish had come together to celebrate Christmas. But not everyone was there. The little striped fish ...
Let’s go on a submarine
And cruise beneath the sea,
Discovering strange creatures
Who swim so fast and free. ...
Set in the lead up to World War II this is a gripping historical romance that combines just the right elements of ...
I'd not known, and neither had a lot of friends, much about Istrian cuisine which is a rich blend of Venice and ...
Dive into Tiktok or Youtube if you haven’t discovered Joshua Weissman, an eccentric, quirky, and maybe ‘a little ...
Like Joshua Weissman, Paul West is an advocate for creating meals from scratch but he goes one unapologetic step ...
The essence of Filipino cooking with its traditions and rich folklore is brought to life in this beautiful book, ...
Feast: 100 generous recipes to share by Miguel Maestre shares 100 delicious (and yes, impressive) dishes to make ...
The year of 2020 was a time when all our worlds changed. It was also the year when Yotam Ottolenghi and Noor Murad ...
There are a host of much-loved Australian chefs such as Stephanie Alexander and Maggie Beer whose cookbooks are ...
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