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This month’s book club read is Mr Rosenblum’s List by Natasha Solomons. Join the discussion in our new look BOOK CLUB where you can also share your thoughts in a quick reply or your post your own book review. Jack Rosenblum is five foot three of sheer determination. He, and his wife Sadie, are German [...]
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On her first date with her husband, Elizabeth Bard takes a bite of a pavé au poivre that melts on her tongue in a symphony of pleasure. He was, she says “half way to home base as soon as I cut into that marvellous steak.” It is a lunch in Paris that truly changes her [...]
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Book of the Month: March 2010. It is 1957, recently widowed Ilona Talivaldis and her young daughter Zidra move to the small fictional town of Jingera on the south coast of New South Wales. Ilona is a pianist and her love of music is now shared with a growing number of Jingera residents, the “Jingeroids”, [...]
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Our Book of the Month for February 2010 is ‘The Women in Black’ by Madeleine St John. Join our Book Club moderator, Barbara Sungaila, when we discuss this book at the Book Club forum at AWO Connect, from mid-February 2010. To participate in the discussion, you will be required to open a FREE account at [...]
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Finally, a book that isn’t afraid to take ugly and make it beautiful. From the opening pages of Andrew McGahan’s latest fictional offering, we are bombarded with the dichotomy - and parallels – between ugly and beauty, whether it be aesthetic, figurative, primal, tangible, archetypal, human or metaphysical - it’s there, peeping from every placid or tumultous corner. From [...]
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Book of the Month: September 2009 – Join the discussion online at the Book Club http://www.australianwomenonline.com/bookclub/ It’s always a little dangerous to read something that’s been lauded by the press and even more dangerous when the author has been pegged as the next big thing in contemporary fiction. It’s dangerous because expectations are high. I [...]
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It was interesting reading a chic lit novel written by an Australian living in London. Author Jessica Adams has a clear love for her homeland yet an insatiability for England that’s still apparent, despite the light-hearted bagging she gives Old Blighty in this tale about a young woman on the verge of a major sea [...]
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The first thing that happened when I started reading The Help was that a teensy bit of voice escaped from my lips. A vocal gasp. The second thing that happened was an ear-to-ear grin, followed closely by a batch of freshly sprung tears. And all this within the first two pages. The ensuing saga wrapped [...]
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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 [...]
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For her second novel, Melbourne based author Fran Cusworth revisited the year she followed her husband to a mining town on the south west coast of Australia. Although a work of fiction, the story of three very different women who follow their husbands to Hopetoun, was inspired by Cusworth’s personal experience of a small community [...]
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