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People and Place – Ankami by Debra Dank
DEBRA DANK, whose non-fiction writing defies genre definition, shares her reaction to family archival discoveries with JENNIFER SOMERVILLE.
In measured, yet passionate tones, an Aboriginal educator for more than 40 years writes of the effect on families and communities of children being ‘taken away’ as the Stolen Generation.
Dr Debra Dank has written two earlier books, We Come with This Place (2022) and Terraglossia, the latter published earlier this year, ...
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Features
It's time to dedicate 1% of your day to mental health action. Are you up for the challenge?
In The 1% Good ...
The indomitable Miss Cocks and Ethel Bromley return for Book Two in the bestselling and charmingly cosy Petticoat ...
I was browsing a publisher’s catalogue the other day when I stumbled on a truly curious title: Adventurous Vents: ...
Mischance Creek by GARRY DISHER is the latest book in the bestselling ‘Hirsch’ series which sees the return of a ...
Bestselling and beloved Australian author MORRIS GLEITZMAN has written 45 books and was appointed the Australian ...
SAMI BAYLY is an Australian children’s author and illustrator who loves bringing the weird and wonderful to life ...
As romantasy and romance soar in popularity, Jane Austen’s timeless works still hold valuable lessons for younger ...
ABOUT THE BOOK
Ruth, the widowed matriarch of a grown family, has only months to live, and a secret she’s kept for ...
ABOUT THE BOOK
Inspired by The Artist's Way and rooted in permaculture, this timely guide reimagines creativity as ...
The highly-anticipated follow up to the viral sensation Bunny, a brilliantly written, laugh-out-loud funny, dark ...
I truly believe that our health is the most important thing we have, and I’m sure you’re asking yourself the same ...
Josh Neille and his family care for animals doing it tough – orphaned joeys, emus on the mend and wombats ...
The global million-copy bestselling author of the Ernest Cunningham series, Benjamin Stevenson, is back with a ...
CHRIS HAMMER is an Australian crime writer whose books have dominated the bestseller lists since his debut crime ...
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Reviews
The premise of this novel is extremely intriguing, and I was eager to delve into the bleak, cold world of ...
Gabriel Dax’s life is complicated. He’s ostensibly a travel writer, but he’s also employed by MI6 as a spy, and ...
In 1969, when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a teenaged Indigenous boy, Robbie Brennan, was living in humble ...
I can already imagine this book sparking heated discussions in book clubs, with readers debating its twists, moral ...
The Italian Secret is the third novel in Tara Moss’s ‘Billie Walker PI’ series.
When Billie Walker returns home to ...
It’s rare to have a book whose narrative is relevant and whose denouement is still unfolding long after ...
The small town of Lakota is in remote rural Wisconsin. The surrounding farmland has a sizeable Amish population. ...
Charlie returns to his tiny hometown of Bellworth, which floods seasonally and is full of old families, old ...
At the beginning of this book, we are greeted by adopted twins, Nora and Stevie Lucky.
From the outside looking ...
Take a group of disparate women, stir inside a vineyard town in South Australia, add a dishy bloke for predictable ...
Australia is hailed as a multicultural success story. We observe or meet people of different nationalities but ...
As an avid reader for almost eight decades, I find it exhilarating to discover, and enjoy, a style of writing like ...
The Abrolhos Islands, off the coast of Western Australia, have long fascinated historians and fisherfolk. This is ...
As Hewlett says, you’ll know this story: Medusa, Gorgon, snakes for hair, turns men to stone, loses her head to ...
The Other Brother is set in contemporary London and follows April and James’s romance.
April discovers a week ...
What an absolute treat to come across a book written by a First Nations author from the Torres Strait Islands, let ...
This latest fairytale retelling takes the beloved story of Snow White and Rose Red and twists it up in a ...
Brynn has spent most of her life among the people of Alaha – a community that has been exiled at sea – where she ...
Murder on North Terrace is set in Adelaide in September, 1917.
Gertie Stafford, who used to work in the local ...
The Thursday Murder Club members are ageing. It’s inevitable, of course, but how can a person in their 80s still ...
The term ‘hot ground’ in the context of gold prospecting refers to areas where prospectors consider there’s a high ...
Carralon is a small country town in Australia where everyone knows everybody. It is close to an open-cut coal ...
Recently I was chatting with a leading figure in British crime writing about top quality rural noir tales set in ...
Annabelle had pictured this holiday being full of laughs and loving looks. A celebration of Luke, her husband, and ...
As well as being cracking yarns, crime novels generally offer a razor-sharp snapshot of society. That’s certainly ...
Talented fresh storytelling voice Tom Baragwanath may live among the urban buzz of Paris, but he returns home ...
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Wow! This memoir is not for the faint hearted. Readers familiar with Elizabeth Gilbert’s earlier works, Eat Pray ...
Bob Hawke was Prime Minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991, and his government is credited with reforms that ...
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Much has been made of Reid’s pivot from aerodynamicist for Formula One to creator of what’s been called the ...
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In our current geological age, human activity has a significant influence on climate and the environment. Darryl ...
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In Borneo, Michael Veitch gives a narrative account of the last major land campaign of World War II, conducted by ...
In 1996 Prime Minister John Winston Howard said Australian history should focus on ‘Australian achievement’ as ‘a ...
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