“Molly turned page forty of the manuscript, put it face down on the stack and switched off her desk lamp….the pages of the novel had got under her skin and left her feeling strangely unsettled.”
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This fantasy/romance novel centres around Wren, princess of Thezmarr, an alchemist and poisoner, and Torj, a warrior whose bravery is renowned across the Midrealms. These two have history, having fought together in the magical Shadow War …
Mythic, epic, lyrical and alive, THE BOY FROM THE SEA by Garret Carr is a roiling read, rollicking, redolent and robust.
Found washed ashore in Donegal Bay like some Moses in the bulrushes, a baby, brought in by the tide, …
Her suit – Inclusion to the exclusion of bigotry and prejudice; diversity is not a perversity. It’s her shtick. It’s fully Sikh.
Her suit becomes a suite in Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa’s two toned tome, FULLY SIKH. Two toned …
Sleep mutinies. Caught in the gravitational pull of Samantha Harvey’s ORBITAL, sleep cedes sovereignty to reading in this dream like odyssey of six souls, spinning around the globe, observing both outer and inner space.
Commence this wondrous novel and you …
Taking its title from a track from The Fiery Maze, the rock opera her sister Dorothy Porter and Tim Finn collaborated on, Josie McSkimming’s memorable memoir is a page turning revelation of a childhood under the shadow of …
Four stars
This is an absorbing story of Maddy, a young woman in her first year of university, with all its accompanying stresses. Sometimes she’s erratic and moody, and feels weighed down by the pressure her mother puts on her …
Giving new meaning to the term finger food, Lucy Rose’s THE LAMB is a delicious, delectable and demented story of cannibalism, carnality and coming of age.
A horror story, a love story, a fork tale with knives out, THE LAMB …
In Australia, Noni Hazlehurst is a household name, initially developed through her role on the ABC’s iconic children’s show Play School, then as host of Channel Seven’s long-running lifestyle show Better Homes and Gardens. Hazlehurst’s longevity on the stage …
Davina Jackson’s history of Australian ‘ architecture’ takes a long bow, starting with the FirstAustralians’ shelter typologies, as recorded by the First Fleet when landing in Sydney’s Botany Bay in May 20 1789 to 2020, two years to the date …