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February 13, 2020
BOOK REVIEW: Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
We begin in suburban Indiana with Lina, a homemaker and mother of two whose marriage, after a decade, has lost its passion. She passes her days cooking and cleaning for a man who refuses to kiss her on the mouth, protesting that “the sensation offends” him. To Lina’s horror, even her marriage counselor says her husband’s position [...]
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February 11, 2020
VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan
For me, the best crime novels are tense, evocative reads, set somewhere misty and atmospheric that raises the hairs on your skin, with characters who are complex and alive, who you cannot help caring about, and written in terse language that nonetheless has the power to haunt you with its beauty [...]
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February 9, 2020
BOOK REVIEW: The River Wife by Heather Rose
This is the story of a river and the making of water and the nature of love. Some would say that any story of water is always a story of magic, and others would say any story of love was the same …’ The River Wife is a simple and subtle story of love. The river wife—part human, part fish—has a duty to tend the river [...]
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February 8, 2020
Interview with Kate on Fairy Tales
I was recently contacted by a group of college students in the US who are studying my books as part of a module on fairy tale […]
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February 6, 2020
VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: The Paris Seamstress by Natasha Lester
1940. Parisian seamstress Estella Bissette is forced to flee France as the Germans advance. She is bound for Manhattan with a few francs, one suitcase, her sewing machine, and a dream: to have her own atelier. 2015. Australian curator Fabienne Bissette journeys to the annual Met Gala for an exhibition [...]
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February 4, 2020
BOOK REVIEW: Barbed Wire & Cherry Blossoms by Anita Heiss
5 August, 1944: Over 1000 Japanese soldiers attempt to break out of the No. 12 Prisoner of War compound on the fringes of Cowra. In the carnage, hundreds are killed, many are recaptured and imprisoned, and some take their own lives rather than suffer the humiliation of ongoing defeat. But one soldier, Hiroshi, determined to avoid either fate, manages to escape [...]
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February 2, 2020
VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by Holly Ringland
The most enchanting debut novel of 2018, this is an irresistible, deeply moving and romantic story of a young girl, daughter of an abusive father, who has to learn the hard way [...]
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January 30, 2020
BOOK REVIEW: The Fragments by Toni Jordan
INGA Karlson died in a fire in New York in the 1930s, leaving behind three things: a phenomenally successful first novel, the scorched fragments of a second book— and a mystery that has captivated generations of readers. Nearly fifty years later, Brisbane bookseller Caddie Walker is waiting in line to see a [...]
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January 28, 2020
VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: The Lace Weaver by Lauren Chater
1941, Estonia. As Stalin's brutal Red Army crushes everything in its path, Katarina and her family survive only because their precious farm produce is needed to feed the occupying forces. Fiercely partisan, Katarina battles to protect her grandmother's precious legacy - the weaving of gossamer lace shawls [...]
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January 13, 2020
BOOK REVIEW: Skin by Ilka Tampke
For the people of Caer Cad, ‘skin’ is their totem, their greeting, their ancestors, their land. Ailia does not have skin. Abandoned at birth, she serves the Tribequeen of her township. Ailia is not permitted to marry, excluded from tribal ceremonies and, most devastatingly, forbidden to learn [...]
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