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Rachael Johns tells us about ‘The Other Bridget’
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. ...
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Features
How important is a first line in a book? I’ve been enjoying the delicious exercise of trawling through my library, ...
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In our regular feature SAMUEL BERNARD offers an opinion on a range of literary topics.
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Good Reading dips into the first few paragraphs of The School Run by ALI LOWE to give you a taste of what’s to ...
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The easiest and best gatherings are when everyone pitches in. It's sanity-saving for the host, not to mention ...
FREYA NORTH is the bestselling author of 14 novels including my debut Sally, Pillow Talk and Little Wing. Good ...
People of the past knew the magic of a handmade garment – the uniqueness, the custom fit, the time and care taken ...
FIONA LOWE has been a midwife, a sexual health counsellor and a family support worker; an ideal career for an ...
She’s loved by all who meet her. But someone wants her gone . . .
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Fifteen years after his bestselling, award-winning collection of stories The Boat, NAM LE returns to his great ...
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Reviews
The third collaboration between husband and wife writing team, Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist, The Glass House ...
In Sydney 1968 everything changes when Rachel Margol finds out her name is Rachel Margolin. Everything changes ...
Rabbit Hole is a well-intentioned, beautifully written novel about mental illness and a life derailed by internet ...
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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For readers who like repeating patterns and symmetry in their novels, this is a most satisfying work by Brown, a ...
Drew Iverson is a writer from Minneapolis, working on his second novel. His first wasn’t hugely successful: ...
Set in Karachi, Pakistan and alternating between two time periods, Under the Tamarind Tree is an appealing debut ...
Dylan Ward is killed in a car accident only weeks after walking out on his wife and five-year-old son, Mark, ...
I’m not quite sure what to make of this novel. The title refers to a cake shop in the Jewish area of Budapest ...
Maya's Dance is an inspiring novel is based on the true story of a Holocaust survivor.
Maya is only 17 when she ...
Novels that explore the complexities and paradoxes of sisterhood with real authenticity are rare.
In The ...
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Cecily is desperate to be more than a housewife to a low-level bureaucrat in British-colonised Malaya. A chance ...
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Kirsten McDougall’s protagonist, Alice, is far from likeable. Neither is her imaginary friend, Simp, who dogs her ...
Welcome is a fictional town, named after the famous (real) gold nugget. Vanessa Walton is the town’s human nugget ...
Gentill is a prolific writer: 10 books already in the ‘Rowland Sinclair’ series, plus the 'Hero Trilogy'. And this ...
PI Edwina ‘Ted’ Bristol is back in this follow-up to A Routine Infidelity. One of her latest two cases involves ...
This novel appears to be a good old-fashioned mystery of a lady who disappeared without a trace. However, it’s ...
Lucas Walker is a detective with the AFP, recovering from injuries sustained while working on a previous case. He ...
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Western Australians are familiar with Rottnest Island, a place of white sand, limestone and blue-green sea some 30 ...
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Jami Nakamura Lin was not diagnosed with bipolar disorder until she was 17. Until that age she was always angry, ...
This series of nine long-form essays is the result of a mentoring program where emerging writers are paired with ...
As the son of a maritime merchant, who died before Lang’s 1816 birth in Sydney, and a mother with convict ...
Mirfield in the 'working-class corner of Northern England’. Patrick’s father, a highly respected regimental ...
As a film and entertainment reporter I had the pleasure of interviewing Werner Herzog once. Just like in his ...
Raymond Gaita is a philosopher best known for his memoir Romulus, My Father. Gaita was born in post-war Germany ...
The subject matter of the first wave of post-war Australian immigrants (1947-1960s) is fascinating. The flow of ...
The great 16th-century essayist Michel de Montaigue famously wrote in his collection of essays, ‘I am myself the ...
Did you know that in colonial Sydney all taverns, alehouses, inns, hotels and public houses were legislated to ...
There’s nothing quite like a good spy thriller, and this one is a page-turner.
With a hero, Aubrey Argylle, as ...
Nina and Simon are an attractive young couple, dating since High School, share the same interest in rock climbing, ...
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