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Jessica Townsend’s fourth book in the ‘Nevermoor’ series, Silverborn
JESSICA TOWNSEND lives on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland with her dogs, Vivien and Rik. She is the author of the record-breaking and New York Times bestselling series ‘Nevermoor’ that includes Nevermoor, Wundersmith, Hollowpox and now Silverborn.
AKINA HANSEN spoke with the author about the latest book in the series and the inspiration behind the beloved world of Nevermoor.
Jessica Townsend has had a long and illustrious writing career, beginning at the ...
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Features

The wars in Ukraine, and Gaza, the wildfires in the US, the terrible flooding of Northern Queensland, the ...

ANGUS GILLIES is the author of the ‘Ruatoria Killings’ series of non-fiction investigations and has worked as a ...
Some years ago, aspiring writer Anne Green had an urge to write a historical novel. Fictionalising the life of ...

Lyndel Wilson is the Executive Director of Conservation and Science for BirdLife Australia. She is passionate ...

LAURA MCCLUSKEY is a Naarm/Melbourne writer, editor and actor who has penned several film and TV projects for her ...

Good Reading dips into the first few paragraphs of new books to give you a taste of what’s to come.
ABOUT THE ...

Viet Kieu explores the heart of Vietnamese food and cooking techniques, as interpreted by acclaimed chef Thi ...

From the bestselling author of The North Wind and The West Wind comes a sizzling fantasy romance novel, The South ...

STEVE WILSON and GERRY SWAN are passionate about reptiles. They've written numerous books on them including What ...

Growing up, Kumi Taguchi thought her father was merely distant: reserved, obsessively frugal and – after her ...

As animals our brains float above the planet’s surface. We were made to be mobile and carry our intelligence with ...

Tenacious Māori investigator Hana Westerman returns in a new thriller, Carved in Blood, from the award-winning ...

1945: The Reckoning is the conclusion to the bestselling 'Finest Hour trilogy', and recounts how the final, ...

Painting with Stone tells the story of the Melocco Bros. In mosaic, terrazzo, sgraffito, scagliola and many ...

Saturation is a novel that passionately opposes the trend for banning books and the attempts to rewrite ...

Read an extract from My Name is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Emilia del Valle was always ...
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Reviews

This memorable, historical novel is set in California and Chile, two places that literary legend Isabel Allende ...

I was immediately taken by the exquisite writing of this story. Poetic, lyrical and whimsical, it transported me ...

This is the story of a long marriage, as seen through the eyes of one of the adult daughters. Miranda’s parents ...

This is a raw, compelling and transformative novel about the complexities of self-worth being tied to the way ...

Our unnamed narrator and his girlfriend are both writers. He has been published, won prizes, but is struggling to ...

Sybil Van Antwerp is 73 years old, retired, divorced and lives in Annapolis, Maryland, USA. She writes and ...

In Mayfair 1910, Florence Nightingale, the Lady with the Lamp, a famous trainer of nurses and inspiring comforter ...

33 Place Brugmann is a place familiar to Alice, as she has stayed in the building and got to know some of the ...

The title might be unprepossessing, but this book could be the best short story collection you’ll read all year. ...

There is an addictive tranquillity about this debut by a Swedish author.
Set in a forest outside a small village ...

Ursula and Ambrose are anachronisms: both are librarians living in a dystopian world intent on deleting the ...

It’s 1789 and the Revolution is brewing in Paris. Living in Marseilles, Sofie and Lara Thibault love to draw and ...

The accident that befell a Paris-bound train is remembered because of the iconic photo that captured its engine ...

Seamus, the ‘fool’ as described by Doyle here, is not an idiot. He’s someone who – according to Celtic mythology – ...

This is a very definite change of style for Llewellyn. This intriguing story of love, unquenchable desire and ...

This second book in ‘The Chronicles of Castellane’ series is filled with mystery and political intrigue.
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For almost 40 years, Michael Connelly has shown readers the grit and grime behind the glamorous veneer of the City ...

When we last saw Antonia Scott (in Black Wolf, book two of this trilogy), she watched her partner, Jon Gutiérrez, ...

Molly the maid is looking forward to her happy-ever-after. She is Head Maid and newly promoted Special Events ...

It is easy to recognise the screenwriting chops (Broadchurch, Torchwood) of author Chris Chibnall. This gripping ...

Everyone in the small town of Thorncombe knows the legend of the haunted woods where ‘Sally in the woods’ roams, ...

British-Indian author Vaseem Khan’s wonderful ‘Malabar House’ historical mystery series is centred on Persis ...

Fans of Native American storyteller Marcie R Rendon’s wonderful ‘Cash Blackbear’ mysteries have been pining since ...

Tea and Cake and Death continues the exploits of Eloise and Garth Sherlock, owners of the Sherlock Tomes bookshop ...

There’s a deep contrast between the stark beauty of Callan Wink’s writing and the visceral nature of what he ...

The Philippines has long been something of an exception in Southeast Asia. Colonised in a somewhat desultory ...

It must be 30 years since I first read this memoir about a middle-aged woman from Jervis Bay discovering that her ...

Hope is the first autobiography to be published by a sitting Pope. I am not a Roman Catholic, but this is written ...

Stop Screaming I'm Scared Too is the story of a young man who, at the age of 17, decided to join the army, in ...

Humans are herd animals, most rich people don’t do anything interesting with their money, and the vast majority of ...

I’m sure we’ve all asked ourselves, ‘How would I cope if … (insert your greatest personal fear)’. In Broken Brains ...

Shapeshifting is a collection of 15 stories by Indigenous writers in ‘lyric non-fiction’ form: a term describing ...

Bloomer is a delightful series of essays by an Adelaide-based author challenges people classified as Boomers, born ...

Forty Days in the Jungle offers a detailed recount of an amazing story of survival. However, this book is much ...

Kate Summerscale is a forensic researcher, so any book by her has unimpeachable details, and yet the conclusions ...

The whole art of Ancient History is reconstructing plausible accounts of the distant past from fragmentary written ...

Tuberculosis, a bacterial infection also known as TB, consumption, and phthisis, might be viewed from multiple ...

Erudite and gossipy, this book is irresistible: its subject is books and the (sometimes) weird people who wrote ...
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