Golden is a warm-hearted optimistic story about friends and friendship and art and beauty—and the power of letting yourself be loved… When you work in the juice bar of your small coastal town. When your twin brother is the fun one with all the friends. When something happened a year ago that you can’t talk about,Continue reading “Review: Exploring healing in Jade Timms’ ‘Golden’”
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Q&A with Miranda Luby about her new release, The Edge of Everything
Miranda Luby’s new novel The Edge of Everything is a heartfelt portrayal of grief, a tender romance, and a tribute to a very special Australian bird. Miranda is an author, journalist, copywriter and animal lover living on Victoria’s Surf Coast. She has won several awards for her short stories, and her journalism features in publicationsContinue reading “Q&A with Miranda Luby about her new release, The Edge of Everything”
Review: You Must Remember This – a journey through time and memory
Grace can’t settle. She can’t shake the feeling that someone is missing. You Must Remember This is an eloquent jumble of a family story, as experienced by Grace, an elderly woman with dementia trying to get her moorings in a worsening storm. It contemplates the perils of remembering and forgetting, making your own way inContinue reading “Review: You Must Remember This – a journey through time and memory”
Tara Calaby on spiritualism, representation, and grief l Author interview
Tara Calaby joins us on today’s episode to discuss her latest novel, The Spirit Circle: a speculative historical fiction on the intersection of spiritualism and grief. The novel features women who are haunted by grief and come together as a church under the charismatic leadership of a medium. Tara discusses writing cult-ish dynamics in theContinue reading “Tara Calaby on spiritualism, representation, and grief l Author interview”
Never, Not Ever: A quintessential teenage romance with a psychological layer
Tilly navigates grief over her grandmother’s death, family lies, and unreciprocated love on her sixteenth birthday. “Never, Not Ever” explores teenage identity and emotional growth through challenges and family dynamics.
January book club: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (S4E1)
In this exhilarating novel, two friends—often in love, but never lovers—come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. Join Priscilla and Elise for a book club discussion on Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow‘s complex characterisation and videoContinue reading “January book club: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (S4E1)”
Review: ‘No One Will Know’ presents no shortage of twists and turns
Eve Sylvester is young and broke and needs a job fast. After years of foster homes, backpacking and a sailing trip across the Pacific Ocean, she has lost contact with friends and family. She is alone, desperate—and pregnant. Then she meets Julia and Christopher Hygate, a charming and glamorous couple, who seem to have theContinue reading “Review: ‘No One Will Know’ presents no shortage of twists and turns”
Review: The ‘White Noise’ Of Grief And Change
Fifteen-year-old Emma is woken up by her dad’s nightmares. Again. On Friday evenings they go running at East Point Reserve to escape. Escape the ripples of grief that still chase them three years after her mum’s death; escape Emma’s autism diagnosis; escape her dad’s work as an emergency room doctor. At school, Emma has wonContinue reading “Review: The ‘White Noise’ Of Grief And Change”
Review: This Is Not a Sad Book (But It’s OK to Feel Sad)
This Is Not A Sad Book is truly not a sad book! It’s actually a practical, compassionate guide full of strategies and ideas to support yourself or someone else through grief, loss and hard times. In some parts you might even find yourself smiling. Most importantly of all – the stories, tips and advice in theseContinue reading “Review: This Is Not a Sad Book (But It’s OK to Feel Sad)”
Review: ‘The Hitwoman’s Guide to Reducing Household Debt’ is a highly entertaining debut
I met my husband on the same day I committed my very last murder. There’s a joke in there somewhere, about ending two men’s lives. Olivia Hodges used to do horrible things – back when she worked for a Spanish crime syndicate – but she fled that life and moved home to Australia, building aContinue reading “Review: ‘The Hitwoman’s Guide to Reducing Household Debt’ is a highly entertaining debut”
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