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Julie Bennett on her exciting new novel, The Understudy
The Understudy is a suspenseful and dramatic debut novel by author JULIE BENNETT set during the opening of the Sydney Opera House in 1973. As AKINA HANSEN writes, it’s an exciting exploration of love, ambition and betrayal.
In October 1973, Australia saw the completion of one of its biggest cultural icons of the 20th century, the Sydney Opera House.
Despite its status today as a leading institution of arts and culture, it was met with intense scrutiny ...
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Features
OMAR SAKR is the author of two poetry collections, The Wild Houses and The Lost Arabs which won the 2020 Prime ...
KAREN JOY FOWLER is the New York Times bestselling author of three short story collections and seven novels, ...
TONY BERNARD is an emergency doctor at two Sydney Hospitals. gr caught up with Tony to discuss his book, The Ghost ...
Seventy-five million. That’s how many books are in print by Harlan Coben. A gobsmacking number. Surely with this ...
March 2022 Crossword
Did you try our big cryptic and quick crossword for March 2022?
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SARAH VAUGHAN worked as a journalist and political correspondent at the Guardian for 11 years before pursuing a ...
PORTLAND JONES is a writer, lecturer and horse trainer. Her debut novel, Seeing the Elephant was shortlisted for ...
Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak+Black Fiction is an anthology of speculative, visionary fiction ...
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Reviews
Twenty-five years ago, in the town of Tawanui, New Zealand, Emily was the last person to see Leah Parata alive. ...
This excellent debut novel is set in two different times – 1703, when the story opens, and 1643-44 during the ...
Taukiri can’t look his eight-year-old brother in the eye. He cannot hide his guilt. ‘You’ll love it, there are ...
This is a charming novel that starts in 1886, when 10-year-old Eliza Brightwell arrives with her family at the ...
Shafak is a master of the hybrid genre. The Island of Missing Trees transcends magical realism, historical ...
This is a story of two men: a father and his son, different generations in different wars. Arthur was a blacksmith ...
Set in Guatemala in the early 1950s, towards the end of the historic ‘Ten Years of Spring’, Harsh Times is based ...
There are 10 short stories in this debut. Some are stronger than others, but common themes emerge. Characters tend ...
Every now and then a book comes along that resists a neat definition. Hovering, the winner of the 2020 Victorian ...
The year is 1916 and Sven Ormson is restless and a little lost, unsure of where he fits in to city life. He comes ...
I have experienced the streets of Paris through numerous novels set in World War II, but few are as vibrant as ...
When the 200-million-dollar yacht Galaxy sinks, the distinction between passenger and crew quickly dissipates for ...
Remi and Pascal are theatre orphans in the Comedie-Italienne company, based in Paris. When his mother returns, ...
Booker Prize Winner. Three words which can strike fear into any reader: it might be ‘good’ writing, but it’ll be ...
Anuradha Roy is a masterful storyteller. The Earth Spinner is an evocative story set across many landscapes, both ...
This book first appeared 10 years ago. This special edition includes a new foreword by the author. The world has ...
Aoife Clifford is the author of the highly merited All These Perfect Strangers. Her latest crime novel follows the ...
Mickie makes memory banks, devices that store memories and then display them as holograms.The user simply asks for ...
Hide Out is the third in the ‘Alice Vega’ series. It features a strong heroine and a murky web of a plot that ...
If you’ve ever fancied yourself as an international spy flitting around the world solving mysteries and with a ...
This year, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will have reigned for 70 years. Joanna Lumley, actress, author and ...
This is a book guaranteed to make readers angry. Women, particularly.
It details the life of Elizabeth Packard, ...
The narrative begins in 1968: a time of wholesale change; of the protest movements and a desire by many to drop ...
Sir Simon Holcroft, the Queen’s Private Secretary, finds the dead body of a staff member by the swimming pool at ...
Take a man and his teenage son, setting out from Sydney to walk around Australia in a year, fundraising for the ...
Mel Brooks’ (born Melvin James Kaminsky) career as an actor, comedian, composer and filmmaker spans more than 70 ...
Fleeing her abusive relationship, Alex arrives in Pine Ridge ecovillage with her surly 14-year-old son, Ollie, and ...
Readers who have loved Orlean’s The Library Book and The Orchid Thief will be delighted with this book, based on ...
Not many people like to talk about death; fewer still would write 300 pages cataloguing and analysing it. Doig ...
It’s some 40 years since the publication of Henry Reynold’s Other Side of Frontier brought an end to what Stanner ...
Historiography is the study of how history gets interpreted, written and how that changes over time and an ...
This is a fascinating insight into decades of medical research on stem cells and their potential from a leading ...
It would be easy to blame the apparent universal decline in attention spans on technology, and particularly the ...
Every Night of the Week is exactly that. Organised by each day of the week, this recipe book aims to have your ...
Home Made answers the age-old question – so what do chefs cook and eat at home? Inside you’ll find 80 recipes from ...
Oddity is certainly an odd book with a twisting story. Although set in the USA in the late 18th century it is not ...
Will Kempen, a 16-year-old adolescent, and his mother have spent their lives running to avoid danger. Following ...
Olivia Grace is a law student who has dreams of being the female version of Sherlock Holmes so when her best ...
Whenever I read a book and review it, I never go past a four and a half stars because, to me, the perfect book ...
‘One day there will come a child who will unseat a king.’ So it is written in the prophecy held by the monks of ...
This book is one of those rare gems – a book for young readers about a serious subject told with humour and ...
I love Andy Jones. He’s such fun.
In this book he takes young want-to-be writers through all the skills they’ll ...
For most of human history, people believed that all the plants, animals and insects in the world had always been ...
This book is a child’s dream. Fifty stories from around the world – old stories that their parents might have ...
This little man was not only tiny but he was very lonely. One day, just at the beginning of spring, he decided to ...
We thought that Isaac Newton was the first to discover gravity when the apple fell off the tree and hit poor old ...
If you’ve read any of the other 'Baby Animal Tales' like Goodnight Little Duckling or Goodnight Little Monkey to ...
When ‘promising’, is placed against an author’s name, it can have the unspoken inference of ‘will do better’. In ...
One of the highlights from the ‘2021 Brisbane Writers Festival’ was the genius, and always delightful, Trent ...
This is the story of Kendra Brown, a teenaged African-American girl, and the tragic circumstances surrounding her ...
Sylvie lives alone and seeks refuge in the quiet world of books. Her glittering future never eventuated, after ...
Ms Smith examines sexuality
By means of intertextuality
With Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
(Iambic meter ...
You might not have heard of this nonagenarian American writer, but her status as one of the greats is evidenced by ...
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