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Someone Else’s Bucket List: Novel Review
Review by Stacey O’Carroll Author: Amy T Matthews Publisher: Simon & Schuster RRP: $32.99 Release Date: 31 January 2024 “Plant a tree that will live long after I’m gone. Something shady. That…
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Mothman
by Jack Morley. ‘Ma’am, would you please breathe for a moment.’ ‘Sorry, this is just all very overwhelming,’ she says. ‘I’ve never had to give a statement to a police officer,…
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The Haters: Novel Review
Review by Stacey O’Carroll Author: Robyn Harding Publisher: Simon & Schuster RRP: $32.99 Release Date: 3 July 2024 “My first novel, Burnt Orchid, has been out in the world for two days.…
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Issue Thirteen Podcasts
PODCAST ONE PODCAST TWO PODCAST THREE
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Every Single Day
By Les Wicks. It takes a certain bravery or blindness perhaps. I gave so much away but still the clutter. When I said there was this fear my lover…
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Sense and Insensibility.
by Jane Downing. The traffic was as unremitting as the winter damp. Ellie missed the turn-off, forcing the technology into a hiccoughing insistence it was recalculating. Eventually their rental filtered off…
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The Glass House: Novel Review
Review by Stacey O’Carroll Author: Anne Buist and Graeme Simsion Publisher: Hachette RRP: $32.99 Release Date: 27 March 2024 “If I’d wanted an image to sum up everything that’s disturbed me in…
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Love From Scratch: Novel Review
Review by Stacey O’Carroll Author: Amy Hutton Publisher: Simon & Schuster RRP: $32.99 Release Date: 5 June 2024 “It was like he was in one of those videos that freeze-frame at the…
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Thanks For Having Me: Novel Review
Review by Stacey O’Carroll Author: Emma Darragh Publisher: Joan (Allen & Unwin) RRP: $32.99 Release Date: 27 February 2024 “If she could help it, this year would be different.” Every now and…
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All The Golden Light: Novel Review
Review by Stacey O’Carroll Author: Siobhan O’Brien Publisher: HarperCollins RRP: $32.99 Release Date: 31 January 2024 “A vision projected itself onto the black screen of her memory, and she saw a time…
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Heavenly Morsel
by Vanity Conroy I have met my God and I fear He does not look favourably upon me. I met him in 1954, when I was eighteen and wearing my mother’s…
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Good With Money: Non-Fiction Review
Review by Stacey O’Carroll Author: Emma Edwards Publisher: Allen & Unwin RRP: $34.99 Release Date: 27 February 2024 “Good With Money is a label we all want to wear.” Are you in…
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A Dance With Murder: Novel Review
Review by Stacey O’Carroll Author: Elizabeth Coleman Publisher: Pantera Press RRP: $32.99 Release Date: 3 January 2024 “Ted looked down at her miniature schnauzer, Miss Marple, who was sprawled at her feet,…
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In the Eye of Jupiter
By Kris Loilo It’d be a much smarter idea to just walk up to the door, knock and ask to be let inside, but the thing about that is that I’m…
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Tree Dwellers
By Abhishek Udaykumar It wasn’t till that evening that the Coca-Colas were back on the shelf and we had a reason to walk up the slope. A litchi[1] tree hung from…
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Tim Augier,
I’m a media student, and aspiring set builder. I build and design sets for theatre shows at Melbourne Uni and RMIT, and I’ve also written and directed (and acted in) stage shows…
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Past Lives
Review by Jilliean Sioson Directed by Celine Song | English-Korean There is a conversation that takes place in Men Without Women (2014) written by Haruki Murakami that goes like this: “But…
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Black As.
By Keren Heenan She’s all sharp angles and dark and heavy brooding, anyone can see that. As soon as she opens the door and thumps herself down on the seat, turns…
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Sanctuary: Novel Review
Review by Stacey O’Carroll Author: Garry Disher Publisher: Text Publishing RRP: $32.99 Release Date: 3 April 2024 “Found the bitch” A rural antiques store is not where you would normally expect to…
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The Next Big Thing: Novel Review
Review by Stacey O’Carroll Author: James Colley Publisher: Pantera Press RRP: $32.99 Release Date: 30 January 2024 “Norm has just had a big idea. The biggest idea of his life, in fact.…
