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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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Hatchette Australia has released the first new title from Stephenie Meyer in two years and for a limited time, fans of the Twilight saga will be able to read the 192 page novella, THE SHORT SECOND LIFE OF BREE TANNER, online for FREE. Fans of the Twilight series will recall Bree Tanner was introduced on [...]
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When American writer Dallas Clayton decided to write a book for his young son, he knew the book’s theme would be on dreaming big. Penning the text in 10 minutes and taking 6 months to complete the illustrations, Clayton may have chosen a big dreams theme for his story, but he surely never dreamed how [...]
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Rachael Treasure (pictured) is the bestselling author of Jillaroo, The Stockmen and The Rouseabout. In her latest novel, The Cattleman’s Daughter, Rachael draws on her own experience of riding horses and droving cattle in the snow gum country of Eastern Victoria. This book is a love story, but at the heart of this novel is [...]
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When Australian grandmother of eight, Robyn Smith, took on the exotic nom de plume of Mimi King, it wasn’t the only major change in her life. After a lifetime of teaching and reading countless children’s books to both her students and her own children, King took the only logical step necessary – she wrote her [...]
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When her 14 year old niece was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, respected journalist, radio producer and TV researcher, Janise Beaumont (pictured), set off in search of a miracle. What she found will warm your heart and perhaps, restore your faith in humanity. Eight years ago life hurt like crazy. Janise Beaumont felt she had [...]
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There is something poignant in the title of The Butterfly Effect – a book that gently prises open the cocoon surrounding teenage girls; those delicate creatures caught half-way between a lengthy and often difficult metamorphosis into womanhood. Like butterflies, teenage girls are in the process of blossoming into a life of full-blown potential, but the [...]
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Oh, I love a kids’ chapter book that aims so directly at its audience, you can hear the bulls-eye thud of its literary arrow. Talented young Australian author, Ingrid Jonach (pictured), has created a warm, funny and frank character in her Frank Frankie series of books aimed at 7-12 year olds. The first in the [...]
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Journalist for The Age newspaper in Melbourne, Claire Halliday (pictured), was asked to write a book on Australian’s attitudes to sex. As well as providing a fascinating look inside Australia’s sex industry and the organisations that oppose it, Do You Want Sex With That? discusses the impact of sex in the media on our society. [...]
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Since 2006 Lisa Williams (pictured) has been hosting her own cable TV show, Life Among the Dead, which airs in Australia on W. On 14th September the popular medium and clairvoyant spoke to me by telephone from her home in England. It was the evening before my 40th birthday and I was hoping Lisa Williams [...]
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