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Posted on June 17, 2020September 30, 2020

A Town Like Alice

From the Ghan As I've written elsewhere, my early life was full of stories and memories of Australia. My parents' stories and memories. It was…

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Posted on May 31, 2020

Hester: Ship’s Officer by Valerie Baxter

After yesterday's debacle of a book, I decided to treat myself to a known favourite by an author who has managed to include a plot…

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Posted on May 22, 2020

My Lockdown Books: Sixty Five

Juliet in Publishing by Elizabeth Churchill is a book I've added to my collection as an adult and it's one of my favourite career novels. …

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Posted on May 20, 2020

My Lockdown Books: Sixty Two

When the bank his parents own crashes, Oliver’s life starts to spin out of control. Precipitated into responsibility for a grumpy girl, her unpredictable mother,…

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Posted on April 28, 2020

My Lockdown Books: Twenty Eight

I decided to treat myself to a re-read of the Ishmael trilogy by the award-winning Michael Gerard Bauer.  Why?  Well, I don't really need a…

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Posted on April 8, 2020

My Lockdown Books: Three

My choice today is all about the illustrations.  Around the World in Eighty Days has been published in many editions since Jules Verne wrote it…

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Posted on December 1, 2019

The Things That Will Not Stand by Michael Gerard Bauer

Last month Michael Gerard Bauer won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for his young adult novel, The Things That Will Not Stand.  I should clarify…

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Posted on December 3, 2018December 3, 2018

3rd December

My life might have been very different had my parents or I made other decisions. They met and married in Australia but decided to return…

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