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Bibliophile | Uncover buried secrets in ‘The Second Cut’

The Second Cut by Louise Welsh Canongate Louise Welsh has lived in Glasgow most of her life. Her debut novel The Cutting Room was twenty years ago when she was angry about the open and institutional hostility towards LGBTQI+ people during the Keep the Clause campaign. The central character of her seductive novel, openly queer […]

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Bibliophile | A couple share their sexual memoirs in ‘A Previous Life’

A Previous Life by Edmund White Bloomsbury Publishing Ruggero Castelnuovo is a Sicilian aristocrat and a world famous harpsichord player in his seventies. Married to American writer Constance who is 40 years younger, he breaks a leg while heli-skiing in Switzerland and the two of them decide to write their respective sexual memoirs and read […]

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Bibliophile | Secrets uncovered in Charity Norman’s ‘Remember Me’

Remember Me by Charity Norman Allen & Unwin In June 1995, twenty-six year old Tawanui woman Leah Parata went hiking in the rainy New Zealand uplands in search of the endangered native Marchant snail she was studying. She never returned to her mother’s place and she seemed to have vanished completely. No traces were found […]

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Bibliophile | Author Rebekah Ballagh offers ‘Words of Comfort’

Words of Comfort By Rebekah Ballagh Allen & Unwin Grief is an unavoidable and painful part of life. It is a very intense emotion and it can result from so many different things that life throws at us. We usually associate grief with losing someone close to us or the death of a pet, but […]

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Bibliophile | Hate crime shakes a rural town in ‘Tank Water’

Tank Water by Michael Burge MidnightSun Publishing James Brandt knew what was going on in his hometown of Kippen and he knew he had to get away as early as he could. Apart from being a vegetarian in a farming region, James realised his sexuality set him apart and there were people in the town […]

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Bibliophile | Connor Franta leads search for harmony in ‘House Fires’

House Fires By Connor Franta Atria Books In December, 2014, Connor Franta publicly came out as gay in a YouTube video, stating he had accepted who he was and was “happy with that person”. He spoke about the help he got from others and on the internet and stated that his aim in life was […]

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Bibliophile | Alan Cumming unpacks his ‘Baggage’ with joyous memoir

Baggage by Alan Cumming Canongate In his first memoir Not My Father’s Son, Alan Cumming wrote about having to deal with his sadistic father’s physical and emotional abuse – “a little boy dealing with a very disturbed and dangerous adult man whose splintered psyche rained down such physical and emotional violence it startled even me […]

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Bibliophile | ‘Aurora’s End’ is loaded with action and plot-twists

Aurora’s End by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff are the award-winning authors of the Illuminae Files, which have sold more than a million copies across Australia and internationally, and Brad Pitt’s production company has even snapped up the TV rights to the series. It was the first book of the […]

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Bibliophile | ‘All About Ella’ is a powerful tale of unlikely connections

All About Ella by Meredith Appleyard HQ Fiction Cutlers Bay, a small seaside town in the Yorke Peninsula, becomes the accidental meeting place for three homeless people. Although Zach, the solitary local police officer in the town, is technically not homeless as he has a soulless government house that came with his job, but it […]

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Bibliophile | ‘Troop Train’ remembers generations of women left behind

Troop Train by Elizabeth Hutchins Wakefield Press It was February 1942 when the Japanese military overran Singapore and 14 year-old Rosemary Lister writes in her diary that they have been hanging black curtains in every window of their Adelaide house. Darwin had just been bombed and the last thing Rosemary’s family had heard was that […]

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