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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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Book clubs have become something of a literary theme in recent years – the popularity of best selling novels such as Karen Joy Fowler’s Jane Austen Book Club and Kate Legge’s The Marriage Club are stellar examples of this phenomenon. In The Reading Group, five women meet to share their thoughts about the book of [...]
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Eleanor (Ellie) Cooper is a woman who, on the surface, seems to have it all. However after marrying the man she believes is her handsome prince she finally reaches the place ‘where fantasy and reality take their different paths and impressionable young girls who believe in fairytales find out they’ve been sold a dud.’ A [...]
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Although I love young adult and teen fiction, I must admit, it was a stretch for me to open the cover of Gamers’ Quest, a novel featuring computer-generated artwork on its cover. I ain’t a gamer and I certainly ain’t a teen, nor a be-pierced, sword-wielding maniac. What is this going to do for me? [...]
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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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The front cover of Wildflower: An Extraordinary Life and Untimely Death in Africa, shows a supermodel in a 1950s frock, holding a milk bottle and being nuzzled by a baby elephant. At first, I thought this photograph was a prop to sell the book. Not so. This gorgeous creature and her playmate are very real. [...]
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Wow. I started writing this review after my first chapter of Third Transmission, and I was so gobsmacked, all I ended up writing was ‘wow’. Several chapters later and now at the end of this breathtaking ride by young Canberra author, Jack Heath, I can pretty much utter the same word, but thrice – wow, [...]
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Reading Surf Sisters sent me back to my teenage life, a time when wet hair, zinc cream and the warm smell of wax was de rigueur in our coastal town. It also sent me back to the sisterhood of teen friendship – the strong connection forged between friends, the occasional hiccups and of course, the [...]
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She’s been heavily criticised in the media and vilified by just about every armchair TV critic with access to a mobile phone and a computer. But you won’t hear her complaining. In fact you won’t hear Gretel Killeen say a bad word about anyone. When I told my friends that I would be interviewing Gretel [...]
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“What if your boyfriend died right in front of you…” When I first picked up this debut novel by Irish writer and comedian, Anna McPartlin, I scanned the beautiful photograph on the very sentimental cover, flipped to the back cover for more heartfelt prose and instantly knew I was in for a weepy, touching account [...]
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