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I’ve recently come to a realization and a major decision. The realization is that I hate hate hate to cook dinner. The major decision, coming directly from this stunning realization, is that I really need to like cooking dinner. Yes, I need to force myself to enjoy this nightly ritual of culinary torture. There are…Read More
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Ever Clever Eva by Andrew Fusek Peter is the latest in The White Wolves series of books, published by A&C Black, London, are a brilliant collection of readers featuring three styles of story – Myths, Legends and Traditional Stories, Stories from Different Cultures, and Playscripts. This book by prolific author Andrew Fusek Peters falls into…Read More
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Tim Winton’s latest novel, Breath, takes its first gasping breath in a fast-moving scene, flush with speed and emotion, and loaded with question marks. Written in the first-person, present-tense – which gives rapid movement to any written work – this first glimpse into Breath is… well, breathtaking. From there, the story rapidly slows into retro…Read More
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Perhaps like most mothers who stand on one leg and perform a multitude of tasks like a thrashingly efficient octopus, I’m often hit with the crashing reality that I am indeed a mum. The daily multi-tasking should frequently remind me, but it doesn’t. Much of the time I still feel like I’m 12 years old…Read More
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Ah, La Dolce Vita. The sweet life of a successful author. Erica Bauermeister’s first fiction novel, The School of Essential Ingredients, may still be fresh on the shelves but this tantalising novel has already been translated into Italian, under the title La Scuola degli Ingredienti Segreti. What a glorious excuse to jet off to Northern…Read More
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June long weekend, in celebration of some figurehead monarch across the seas (will Queen Liz II soon be 100? who will send her a card?), has snuck up behind me and slapped me hard on the back of the head with the realisation that our family has a decidedly blank three days ahead of us.…Read More
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Popular children’s author and comic book illustrator, Bob McLeod, chats with Australian Women Online. Bob McLeod has been doing something super. Something that is the envy of kids and adults everywhere. Something most people wouldn’t even view as ‘work’. Bob has been creating superheroes. Bob, who lives in Pennsylvania in the United States with his…Read More
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I’m no athlete. No sprinter, leaper, kicker, shooter, no no, not me. Sure, I’ve had periods in my life where I’ve worked my body into a shin-splinted ball of muscle. I’ve been variously addicted to netball, surfing, volleyball, swimming, aerobics, weight-lifting, yoga and pilates – in that order, but these sessions have always been short-lived.…Read More
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The room filled mostly with couples, leaning toward each other across tables, enclosed in their own spheres of candelit intimacy. Fingers reaching toward fingers, or flying through the air, drawing the shape of a story. Caught in the dense foliage of an intensely busy time recently, The School of Essential Ingredients, a first novel by…Read More
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Outback novels, in truth, have been few and far between on the bookshelves of my life, let alone one of ‘love, intrigue and redemption’, so I was very keen to start this debut tale by Fleur McDonald, an Aussie mum and farm veteran living on the land in Western Australia. Being a die-hard urbanista, I…Read More
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