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James Patterson – Master Page-turner
JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best known and biggest selling writers in the world. He has sold in excess of 400 million copies worldwide, having written books across a broad range of genres.
James’ latest novel, The First Gentleman, sees him team up again with former president Bill Clinton to bring you another gripping political thriller.
AKINA HANSEN finds out what makes this writer tick.
James Patterson is one of the biggest selling and prolific writers ...
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Features
In Ferryman: The Life and Deathwork of Ephraim Finch KATIA ARIEL brings to life the remarkable story of Ephraim ...
You have to give it to New Zealand. They are some of the biggest readers in the world and have been for decades. ...
Where do the stories of monsters come from?
NICHOLAS JUBBER tells us where his passion and investigations started ...
Inside Where to Go When with Kids from LONELY PLANET you’ll find over 300 family-friendly destinations featured by ...
Good Reading dips into the first few paragraphs of Best Left Buried by Neil A White to give you a taste of what’s ...
Fraser Coast Libraries are situated on the southern Queensland coast which includes the pristine area of Fraser ...
ANTONIA HODGSON is an awarding-winning writer and author of the bestselling ‘Thomas Hawkins’ historical crime ...
LINDA JAIVIN has been studying Chinese politics, language and culture for over 40 years. She was a foreign ...
Read on for an extract from Dandy Smith's latest thriller, The Wrong Daughter.
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The phone starts ...
A young woman is seduced by the glamour of the circus and drawn into dangerous world of violence, cruelty and ...
Read on for an extract from Awake in the Floating City by Susanna Kwan.
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For fans of Station ...
Journalist and reformed sociophobe Jenny Valentish aims to help you extend your social battery life, tackle fear ...
Steffanie Holmes' Fangs for Nothing is a cosy paranormal romance featuring a grumpy vampire and sunshine human, a ...
We all know that renewable energy is the future, but how can we ditch coal and gas in our own lives and homes? ...
The liver's ability to heal and regenerate can greatly improve your wellbeing.
Sarah Di Lorenzo is a clinical ...
DEBRA DANK is the award-winning author of We Come with This Place. Read on for an extract from her new book, ...
Extablished in 1983 by L Ron Hubbard, Writers and Illustrators of the Future is a writing contest for science ...
Good Reading caught up with Australian author ANGIE FAYE MARTIN about her debut novel, Melaleuca, 'a compelling ...
Kayang and Me is a monumental family history of the Wilomin Noongar people. As a 10th anniversary edition of the ...
Good Girl by ARIA ABER was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025. Read on for an extract.
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The Avallon Hotel offers unrivalled luxury in the wild Appalachian Mountains, its curative sweetwater washing away ...
TAYLOR JENKINS REID Jis the author of several novels, including Daisy Jones & The Six and The Seven Husbands of ...
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Reviews
What would you give for just a few more precious minutes with a loved one who has passed away?
I expected this ...
Three years ago, I was lucky enough to review Becky Manawatu’s brilliant debut novel, Aue. Kataraina is the ...
The gorgeous cover and interesting title will hook you but once you start this heartfelt story your everyday life ...
What would you do if you suddenly – totally out of the blue – inherited a gift of predicting when a person is ...
The title of this novel lures the reader in. A family goes on their summer holiday at the beach staying in a house ...
Told in Backman’s distinct style, this is the story of Louisa, a young runaway artist who meets her idol at an art ...
‘The only thing that isn’t feeling fine is how I feel about all the fine.’
August is a baker and painter and has ...
Birdie has waited 18 years to kill a man. A man who she believes escaped justice after murdering her sister. ...
Better Days alternates between Grace’s life at uni in the 2000s and her life in London in the 2020s. Through the ...
At 38 years old, The Cat Who Saved the Library by Sosuke Natsukawa features a talking tabby cat named Tiger. It’s ...
The plot in Three days in June revolves around the three days of a wedding celebration. Debbie, the only child of ...
Arabella is a 35-year-old who has had problematic and dysfunctional dating experiences and career. She is now a ...
This is a most impressive debut novel. It tells the story of three generations of women: Róisín and Máire Dooley, ...
The Book of Disappearance, a novel long-listed for the 2025 International Booker Prize, asks: What if all the ...
In another signature blending of historical roman à clef and fantasy, Guy Gavriel Kay draws on medieval French ...
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil follows three women who become vampires.
In 1532, Maria is always hungry for a ...
Set in the year 2000, Melaleuca follows Renee Taylor, an Aboriginal detective based in Brisbane who returns to her ...
Talk about a rough crossing – The Empress Murders is Agatha Christie on steroids, a relentless ...
The Death of Us is a haunting yet beautifully written novel exploring how one tragic night can unravel lives, love ...
We are back in the Southern Highlands with Rose and her eclectic band of family and friends. As with Echo Lake, ...
It is a seemingly ordinary August day that fractures the lives of Gordon and Sarah Rutherford: late summer on the ...
One of the great things about reading fiction is the ability to experience other worlds and lives, to maybe find ...
After a courtroom scandal derails her career in Adelaide, journalist Zara Ellison relocates to Kalgoorlie for a ...
Croak (noun) is the characteristic sound a frog makes; croak (verb) is to die. Frog is a term of endearment for an ...
What a woman! Annette Kellerman died on the Gold Coast in late 1975, aged 89, after a life full of daring deeds, ...
New Zealand-born former diplomat Wynn-Williams knew she wanted to make a difference in the world, and when she saw ...
These two authors have studied women in crime fiction writing, specifically Mary Fortune, collaborating to bring ...
The authors of Plantology have over 60 years professional experience between them with plants, from horticulture ...
There is a calming, almost hypnotic effect in watching water flow, an effect brought to the pages of this small ...
Rehabilitative prison design is possibly the last subject most readers would expect to find fascinating, but ...
It’s quite unfortunate that many supposedly enlightened humans believe that nature is only there to be extracted, ...
After the Referendum of 1967 that gave the Commonwealth the right to count and legislate for the Indigenous ...
Colin Jones is Emeritus Professor of History at Queen Mary University London and has authored many books about ...
This is McTiernan's fourth mystery featuring Garda Detective Cormac Reilly, and I am so pleased to see his ...
Liz Douglas has built a social media empire with Glow Diaries, dipping her fingers into nearly every influencer ...
There is no doubt that the Melbourne of today is a vastly different city from that of 1863. Using recently ...
Our author tells us: 'Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. There’s one ...
The unnamed narrator, an established actor in rehearsal for a new play, meets a much younger man, Xavier, for ...
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