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Returning to Cook’s Basin with Susan Duncan
SUSAN DUNCAN has had a 25-year career spanning radio, newspapers and magazines. After her brother and first husband died, however, she quit journalism and eventually wrote the bestselling memoir Salvation Creek, which explores grief and loss and finding a place to belong. She eventually branched out to fiction with her novels The Briny Café and its follow-up Gone Fishing.
Her latest novel, Sleepless in Stringybark Bay returns to the same world as her other ...
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Features
The 10:10 Simple Recipe Book has more than 180 quick and simple super-healthy recipes for you and your family to ...
Words. What wonderful things they are. They enable us to communicate, to explain, to teach, to express ...
Number one bestselling author WENDY HOLDEN has written 10 consecutive Sunday Times Top Ten bestsellers. Her ...
International bestseller Garth Nix has an exciting adult debut hitting the shelves this month.
Sir Hereward and ...
HEATHER MORRIS is a multimillion-copy bestselling author whose novels include 'The Tatooist of Auschwitz’ series. ...
In our monthly feature, SAMUEL BERNARD offers an opinion on a range of literary topics. Want to join in the ...
KIRSTY MANNING is a beloved Australian author whose bestselling historical novels include The Paris Mystery, The ...
Susan Duncan is back with her new book, Sleepless in Stringybark Bay. Wrapped in the colourful culture of a ...
From the author of Fake History, OTTO ENGLISH, comes a new book, Fake Heroes, about 10 of the greatest liars from ...
SHELLEY BURR’S debut, WAKE, exploded onto the crime fiction scene winning the CWA 2019 Debut Dagger Award . We ...
Award-winning mystery writer VASEEM KHAN took decades to realise his publishing dream; now he’s the new Chair of ...
DR KATE FORSYTH is an award-winning writer. Her latest novel is The Crimson Thread, a reimagining of ‘The Minotaur ...
From sea-stained dispatches to data sent back from deep space, Southern Signals is the story of Australia's use of ...
NADINE J COHEN's new debut novel Everyone and Everything, might make you laugh, cry and call your sister. Here's ...
It's spring! Jump into reading with a little one in your life with the latest favourite picture books that we’ve ...
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Reviews
Mia Jacob grew up on a commune in Massachusetts with a love of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s writing and The Scarlet ...
She’s done it again. Miles Franklin Award-winning author, Melissa Lucashenko has written a vibrant, tragic novel ...
Roseghetto is not a happy book, it is a tale of abuse, poverty, self-harm and the sadness and melancholy that ...
Body Friend is a lyrical and nuanced exploration of a young woman’s rehabilitation following surgery for an ...
The House of Doors is based on real events in the lives of William Somerset Maugham and Dr Sun Yat Sen (Sun Wen), ...
Lorrie Moore might be an acquired taste for some readers, but persevere, all will be revealed, and a fascinating ...
Forensic scientist Antonia Kovács arrives home in Strahan after old bones are discovered in the wilderness. The ...
Strangers At The Port is an intriguing novel set on the greenest island of an archipelago in the southern ...
Most readers would know that Vincent Van Gogh’s life was a tragic one. This novel sheds light on how love came ...
Ann and her mother, Huong, have never been close. Ann was always closer to Minh, her grandmother. However, when ...
Clare Fletcher’s first book Five Bush Weddings was one of my top reads of 2022, so I was very excited to peek a ...
The Ireland of 47 shades of green and the craic of pub music is not in evidence here. Europe’s geopolitics are ...
This intense and unusual novel traces the personal crisis of Ch’anzu (zie/hir, gender neutral pronouns which can ...
The approach this book takes to characterisation and narration is unique. This is essentially an attempt to draw ...
If tales from left field are your thing, The Terrible Event is a collection of eight short stories made just for ...
This unique novel centres on 12th century chess pieces – the Lewis Chessmen – carved from walrus tusk and ...
Described as ‘auto-fiction’, (fictionalised autobiography) this novel is set in the 1990s. We follow an unnamed ...
I do love a good collection of short stories, and this latest work from Heiny does not disappoint.
It takes a ...
After her breakout YA success with These Violent Delights, Chloe Gong has delivered her first adult urban fantasy ...
Terrence Baily has spent six years in prison for breaking and entering. However, the police believe he is also ...
Seventy-year-old Sophia Bertilak was a famous photographer. Her most famous photograph, the photo that launched ...
One man, handsome, kind, Mr Nice Guy, a favourite of everyone in town. Two women, caught up, helpless in his ...
If you’ve had any experience with a Pentecostal church, you’ll recognise the Messiah Ministries of Bower, ...
Thriller masters like Harlan Coben have shown that, while murder may be crime fiction’s modus operandi, ...
Reanimating legendary detectives after their creator’s death can seem a modern trend, with fresh stories popping ...
Ninety years ago young couple Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker transfixed Depression-era America with a ...
Alison Goodman is well known for her YA fiction but this is her first novel for a more adult readership. Set in ...
The famous 1970s novel and film Jaws explored our collective and ancient fear and fascination of giant sharks. Big ...
Many Aboriginal families in Australia have white ancestors on the family tree, but few have two generations of ...
Like it or not, what Rupert thinks and therefore who he supports politically is pretty important. Donald Trump ...
Andrew Sneddon manages to imbue a palpable sense of humour into this memoir that reads like a car crash. A car ...
If there’s just one takeaway from this excellent memoir, it should be that we shouldn’t think of the d/Deaf ...
Martin Flanagan grew up in northwest Tasmania and was sent to boarding school at the ridiculously young age of 10. ...
This very specialised book on the history of Australian Signals Intelligence might not appeal to every reader. It ...
Samantha Irby is an American blogger, essayist, comedian and television writer. She is famous for her excoriating ...
From thousands of entries, judges, Alice Pung and Christos Tsiolkas, have chosen 30 stories to be included in this ...
This is the sort of collection to give readers literary indigestion, not because it is so rich, but just because ...
Australia’s south-west is home to the richest flora diversity on the continent, but it is also one of the world’s ...
In Hands of Time we get Rebecca Struther’s highly personalised take on the history of time measurement. This is ...
The Flavour Thesaurus: More Flavours by Niki Segnit is an inventive culinary guide through the world of flavour ...
The Dinner Party by fine dining chef Martin Benn and his partner, Vicki Wild, is a beautifully photographed ...
This novel follows the venturesome teen Maude on her journey to find her childhood best friend, Odette, who has ...
She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran is an atmospheric horror novel with chilling and immersive imagery. Jade ...
This Spells Trouble is an exciting middle-grade fantasy set in the land of Dravinia. The story centres around ...
Have you ever wondered how polar bears stay warm? What about why there are dark spots on the moon? How about if ...
This story is told by 12-year-old Mirra, who has just moved to Djaara Country, Western Victoria. Wingo is Mirra’s ...
It was a month before Christmas and time for a tree, but where, oh where, could the decorations be?
As the ...
So where will the sleepy sheep sleep? Will she sleep on top of a wild windy hill? Oh no, it’s far too wild and ...
There’s no better place for children than in a bookshop or library. Heads in books, imaginations working in ...
As Captain Thunderbolt emerges from his hideout one morning it’s not long before he checks his pockets only to ...
When you’re a boy you are told how to be like the white-roaring oceans.
But I’ve learned the fierceness of ...
Christopher has travelled from London to visit his grandfather in a remote area of Scotland. He’s waiting at the ...
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