Read the first pages of David Goodwin’s Servo
DAVID GOODWIN survived weekend graveyards in servos for several interminable years: way too long to stay anything ...
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2024-03
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RACHAEL JOHNS is a leading writer of contemporary relationship stories around women’s issues. Her book The Patterson Girls won the ABIA Award in 2016 for General Fiction and she has also won the prestigious Romance Writers of Australia RUBY Award twice. Her latest novel, The Other Bridget is a feel-good romantic comedy. AKINA HANSEN writes.
It’s been almost three decades since Helen Fielding’s character Bridget Jones first arrived on the literary scene. Fielding’s novel was …
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Features
Read an extract from Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?
She’s loved by all who meet her. But someone wants her gone . . .
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Take a tour of the Hidden Pockets in Kyoto
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Brydie Lee-Kennedy on her new novel, Go Lightly
BRYDIE LEE-KENNEDY is an Australian author and screenwriter. Her debut novel Go Lightly is a funny and warm ...
Romance Reading Revival: Love is in the Air
Love stories have an enduring effect on book lovers. Romantic literature traces its origins to ancient ...
Death As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal
Dip into the follow-up to the internationally acclaimed Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal, from Spanish ...
Reviews
What Happened to Nina by Dervla McTiernan
Nina and Simon are an attractive young couple, dating since High School, share the same interest in rock climbing, ...
Under the Tamarind Tree by Nigar Alam
Set in Karachi, Pakistan and alternating between two time periods, Under the Tamarind Tree is an appealing debut ...
Stories That Want to Be Told by Judith Neilson Institute
This series of nine long-form essays is the result of a mentoring program where emerging writers are paired with ...
The Star on the Grave by Linda Margolin Royal
In Sydney 1968 everything changes when Rachel Margol finds out her name is Rachel Margolin. Everything ...
The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez
While The Vulnerables is a pandemic story, it is more an exploration on the thought process of a writer in ...
The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzales James
There just aren’t enough superlatives to describe how good this book is. It’s an epic of Greek myth proportions, ...
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