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As we come out of the depths of winter and into the warmer days of spring, it’s time for one last hurrah, curled up with a book in a sunny nook – and these fabulous fiction recommendations will keep you busy until those blossoms have popped and made way for fruit. Keep an eye out [...]
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Rating: Even if you don’t like cricket and you’re not sure if this book will appeal to you – stick with me here. I don’t care for the game, yet this book has managed to find a cosy little spot in my heart. When it was delivered to my door, I looked at it curiously. [...]
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This year’s Get Reading! campaign, an initiative of the Federal Government, has been launched, including the brochure 50 Books You Can’t Put Down. Now in its ninth year (it was previously called Books Alive), the campaign runs from 25th August to 30th September 2010 and aims to encourage Australians to read. The top fifty books [...]
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Rating: They’re all around us: images of perfect bodies, flawless complexions, impossibly skinny waists. Ads claiming we too could look that way if we just use this particular product. People telling us we don’t look the way we should, niggles of self-doubt fed by negative peers or family members. This book gets to the bottom [...]
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Rating: From the team behind yourfamilyyourmoney.com.au comes this third advice-packed manual on conquering money matters – namely, surviving the complicated and oft devastating rift that is divorce. Analaura and Wilson Luna are a husband and wife team who spend their lives counselling and supporting families on all things financial. They’ve appeared on A Current Affair, [...]
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Rating: Let’s just get to the heart of the matter. It’s going to be tough to explain how much I loved this book. This may help: my heart raced every time I saw its black, cloth-bound cover (the gorgeously-styled dust jacket was, of course, packed away carefully to be reunited with said book after I [...]
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Rating: Blokes’ Health is written by Dr. Bernie Crimmins who has been a General Practitioner for 27 years and features cartoons by published illustrator and cartoonist Paul Harvey. Some of you may ask why a men’s health book is being featured in an online women’s magazine? But it is often women who are the driving [...]
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Rating: We all know how vital the experience of play is for children and their mental, emotional and physical development. Even the most basic playtime encases a world of wonder and advancement in children on a hollistic level, well into their tweens and even teens. It’s sad, then, that as we age, we lose the [...]
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Fleur McDonald is an author with her feet firmly on the land that she loves working with. Beginning her farming career straight out of boarding school, McDonald found herself working one hundred kilometres west of Esperance in Western Australia within a year. While working there, McDonald met her now-husband, Anthony. She says, “It’s a funny [...]
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Rating: Having gained her agricultural qualifications, Amanda Greenfield is keen to help her parents manage the family farm. But when her mother is killed in a terrible accident, Amanda’s father loses all interest and allows the farm to fall into disrepair. As he falls into alcoholism and turns all blame to her, Amanda faces some [...]
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