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December 4, 2019
BOOK REVIEW: Where The Dead Go by Sarah Bailey
You might also like to read my review of another of Sarah Bailey’s books – The Dark Lake: VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: The Dark Lake by […]
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December 3, 2019
VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: Teacher by Gabbie Stroud
In 2014, Gabrielle Stroud was a very dedicated teacher with over a decade of experience. Months later, she resigned in frustration and despair when she realised that the Naplan-test education model was stopping her [...]
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December 2, 2019
The Forgotten Letters of Esther Durrant by Kayte Nunn
1951. Esther Durrant, a young mother, is committed to an isolated mental asylum by her husband. Run by a pioneering psychiatrist, the hospital is at first Esther's prison but soon becomes her refuge. 2018. Free-spirited marine scientist Rachel Parker embarks on [...]
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November 29, 2019
VINTAGE WRITING POST: Q & A for Kate Forsyth on Vasalisa The Wise
Here is the Q & A article on Vasalisa The Wise published in Good Reading Magazine Dec/Jan 17-18 1)The original Russian tale of Vasilisa seems […]
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November 26, 2019
VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein
Husband, father, drag queen, sex worker, wife. Sarah Krasnostein's The Trauma Cleaner is a love letter to an extraordinary ordinary life. In Sandra Pankhurst she discovered a woman capable of taking a lifetime of hostility and transphobic abuse [...]
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November 23, 2019
VINTAGE POST: Vasilisa The Wise
To celebrate I thought I would explore the history of the titular tale, which is one of the best-known and best-loved Russian fairy-tales. An old oral tale, it was transcribed by Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev between 1855-67 and first published in his collection, Russian Fairy Tales. There are many different versions of the story [...]
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November 21, 2019
VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: The Silvered Heart by Katherine Clements
1648: Civil war is devastating England. The privileged world Katherine Ferrars knows is crumbling under Cromwell's army, and as an orphaned heiress, she has no choice but to do her duty and marry for the sake of family. But as her marriage turns into a prison, and her fortune is decimated by the war, Kate [...]
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November 20, 2019
Circe by Madeline Miller
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child—not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power—the power of witchcraft, [...]
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November 18, 2019
The 50 Authors Who Shaped Me
It took me a long while to compile my list of “The 50 Authors who Shaped Me” – it was so difficult to choose only fifty from the thousands of authors whose work meant so much to me through my life.
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VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: The Botanists Daughter by Kayte Nunn
Discovery. Desire. Deception. A wondrously imagined tale of two female botanists, separated by more than a century, in a race to discover a life-saving flower . . .In Victorian England, headstrong adventuress Elizabeth takes up her late father's quest for a rare, miraculous plant.She faces a perilous sea voyage [...]
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