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Heather Morris on her new contemporary fiction, The Wish
HEATHER MORRIS’ new book, The Wish, is a novel about a teenager’s dying wish that is not mournful, but full of the joy of living, JENNIFER SOMERVILLE discovers.
It takes only moments to die, but the rest of the time we are living ... so live, says Heather Morris, author and former social worker who has used many of her experiences in this latest novel, The Wish.
The New Zealand-born, now Brisbane-based author has received international acclaim for her ...
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Features
In The Wolf Who Cried Boy, MARK MUPOTSA-RUSSELL turns a familiar fable on its head, blending sharp wit with ...
With Heather Morris' new book, The Wish, she moves from historical fiction to contemporary fiction. It's a moving ...
Horticulture enthusiast CHLOE FOSTER is determined to help beginner plant parents master the gardening ...
Alex Dook's debut novel, Gunpowder Creek is a cat-and-mouse thriller. Read on for an extract.
ABOUT THE ...
GUY SIGLEY is a writer and podcaster. His novel Anxious Hearts is a tender modern romance that explores love, ...
Australian poet John Kinsella's collection of poetry, Ghost of Myself, traces the ghosts of this country's violent ...
From bestselling author Michael Veitch (Australia's Secret Army, Turning Point) comes the story of the brilliant, ...
As I sit in Good Reading headquarters, pondering the words I want to write, I glance around the room at the piles ...
Wollongong City Libraries, nestled on the stunning New South Wales coast just south of Sydney, are more than just ...
In her new book, Nature’s Last Dance, award-winning environmentalist NATALIE KYRIACOU confronts the extinction ...
HAYLEY GELFUSO is a Chicago-based author.
Her debut novel, The Book of Lost Hours, is a blend between speculative ...
Australian author and librarian KARYS MCEWEN tells us why libraries are teen sanctuaries, and why this matters now ...
BOB GRAHAM is a Kate Greenaway-winning author and illustrator whose works include acclaimed children’s picture ...
The Farm by JESSICA MANSOUR-NAHRA is a Gothic-tinged thriller that explores the raw realities of rural life, where ...
Bryce Courtenay was dynamic, complex, and driven – rising to fame immediately as one of Australia’s most beloved ...
PATRICK RYAN's Buckeye is a dazzling portrait of the human spirit by way of one unforgettable community; the ...
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Reviews
On the surface, Tenderfoot by Toni Jordan is the poignant, heartfelt story of 12-year-old Andie Tanner, an ...
Reading Buckeye, US author Patrick Ryan’s first novel for adults, you could be forgiven for thinking you’d picked ...
In 1915 Sydney, Jack is about to depart to serve in the Great War. Wandering the streets, he saves an old man from ...
The sequel to Thunderhead, Fireweather depicts a later period in the life of wife and mother, Winona Dalloway. In ...
A century from now an archivist, Tom Metcalfe, will search for physical evidence of a poem written in 2014. The ...
The year is 1999 and Jack, along with his wife, is slowly losing his battle with time. His wife is already in a ...
There is a subgenre of Japanese fiction in which a novel consists of several short stories based on the same ...
This story begins with a camping trip – a baby is rescued from the sea by Sapphie, a single mother of one. The ...
Jane and Dan are celebrating their wedding anniversary with a special dinner at a renowned restaurant frequented ...
It’s a cold spring day in the rural Tasmanian town of Albert Falls and local entrepreneur Hal Crow is being ...
There are different forms of isolation, and this excellent novel explores many of them. Sarah, a geologist, is ...
An emotionally layered novel that explores the tangled threads of love, identity and the complexities of family ...
Bren has been working for three years for a company he knows nothing about. He has never physically met any of its ...
On a mountainside in the French Alps, 50-year-old Lucie is reunited with her twin sister, Clémence. The twins ...
A flower, without water, persists in growing – even when all that surrounds it is burnt.
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PhD candidate Alice Law has accidentally murdered her professor while studying at Cambridge. The only obvious ...
With elaborate worldbuilding reminiscent of Guy Gavriel Kay or Paolo Bacigalupi’s In Navola, James Islington draws ...
Ava Reid has written a stunning sequel to A Study in Drowning.
Effy Sayre and Preston Héloury are still feeling ...
American screenwriter and novelist Megan Abbott is a modern queen of feminist noir, who has proven herself a ...
After a career as a trade envoy and lobbyist across Asia, author Sam Guthrie is perfectly positioned to bring the ...
Almost from the very first page Gunpowder Creek sets a frenetic pace.
A frantic voicemail from Emily’s son, Zach, ...
Chloe Foster is a horticulturist. A passionate one. She has written The Rookie Gardner for, well, the rookie who ...
Secret Sauce by Rosheen Kaul is a vibrant celebration of the unsung heroes of the kitchen: sauces, dressings, ...
Historian Benjamin C Fortna delivers a compact yet richly informative account of a nation straddling East and ...
Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazis established more than 44 000 camps (including ghettos) in Germany and across the ...
‘Deep History’ is a code word for history that includes pre-history and is particularly used in relation to the ...
Tom Gilling’s book offers a vivid account of the pivotal battles at El Alamein, illuminating the valour of ...
This is a curious missive. In one way it feels about 30 years too late – it was back in the ’90s when corporate ...
I started to read Raising Readers when I saw that Megan Daley was awarded the Australian School Library ...
When the public thinks of ‘science’ it’s usually along the lines of something neat, tidy, step-by-step and ...
Super Stimulated is about sex, drugs, hormones, happiness, status, social media and food. Eating a whole bag of ...
Award-winning Snowy Mountains author Sulari Gentill seems to be having lots of fun in her latest novel. She’s ...
Edinburgh lawyer Tariq Ashkanani announced himself as a fresh and exciting talent while gathering accolades for ...
This House of Burning Bones is the 15th novel in the ‘Logan McRae’ series. The protagonist is a Police Scotland ...
Scotland-born author Zoë Rankin’s passion for the outdoors seeps through the pages of her outstanding debut, The ...
Blamey was Monash’s Chief of Staff in World War I and commanded the 2AIF in World War II. He was involved in the ...
Objects, mute witnesses of life, are open to interpretation and Kathryn Sutherland, Oxford academic, provides us ...
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