Not Here to Make Friends by Jodi McAllister Simon & Schuster Jodi McAllister is currently a Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature and Culture at Deakin University in Melbourne. Her academic work focuses on the history of love, sex, women and girls, popular culture and fiction. This means that reading romance novels and watching The Bachelor […]
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Deep in the Forest by Erina Reddan Pantera Press Walkley award-winning journalist Erina Reddan always thought she had a fairly ordinary childhood until she started to write a book about a woman who discovered terrible secrets about The Sanctuary, a neighbouring closed community. Reddan then realised that she had grown up in a kind of […]
9 Dec 2023 |
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How to Win Friends and Manipulate People By George Mladenov HarperCollins How many contestants can you name from the Channel 10’s Survivor series? I got to know George as a two-time competitor on Australian Survivor. Not that I had been watching either Australian Survivor: Brains versus Brawn or Australian Survivor: Heroes versus Villains, but the […]
9 Dec 2023 |
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Day By Michael Cunningham 4th Estate Best known for his 1999 Pulitzer Prize winning book The Hours, Michael Cunningham likes to delve into the depths of human experiences, emotional turmoil, sexuality and sexual identities. Like The Hours, the novel is divided into three acts. Day takes place in the morning of 5 April, 2019; the […]
27 Nov 2023 |
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I’m Liz Hayes: A Memoir by Liz Hayes Harper Collins Liz Hayes (known as Beth Ryan back then) grew up with four brothers on a dairy farm on Oxley Island in northern New South Wales, and she says it was excellent preparation for the world she would spend all her working life in. So was […]
20 Nov 2023 |
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Emmett by Lev Rosen Emmett is a Young Adult novel loosely based on Jane Austin’s fourth novel Emma which was published in 1815 and set in Highbury, England. Austin’s Emma was a precocious young woman whose misplaced confidence in her matchmaking abilities resulted in several romantic misadventures. Seventeen year-old Emmett, who attends Highbury Academy in […]
15 Nov 2023 |
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Voices in the Dark By Fleur McDonald Allen & Unwin Having grown up in the small town of OrrOroo in South Australia and now living on her farm in regional Western Australia, Fleur McDonald is in a prime position to see the ways that life has changed in Australia’s country towns. Her latest novel is […]
15 Nov 2023 |
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The In-Between by Christos Tsiolkas Allen & Unwin Christos Tsiolkas’s first novel Loaded, which was made into the film Head On starring Alex Dimitriades, created a sensation as it was all about sex, drugs and youthful, full-on energy. Tsiolkas has mellowed considerably in his eighth novel but still doesn’t shy away from the difficult subject matter […]
15 Nov 2023 |
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Author Seth Malacari has edited and contributed to a new collection of queer speculative young adult fiction. An Unexpected Party has just been released by Fremantle Press. From fantastical realms to real-world struggles, this young adult anthology champions queer identity by challenging stereotypes and exploring the many facets of identity. Written with wit, heart and honesty, these […]
9 Nov 2023 |
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Green Dot by Madeleine Gray Allen & Unwin Hera Stephen was one of the highest achieving students at her high school, but the need to prove she could achieve high marks was not connected to any career ambitions. In fact, she didn’t particularly want a job and the university studies that followed were just a […]
27 Oct 2023 |
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