Kate Forsyth's Blog, page 30
August 26, 2019
VINTAGE POST: Rainer Maria Rilke
I first encountered Rainer Maria Rilke when a friend gave me a copy of LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET when I was in my early twenties. […]
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August 25, 2019
BOOK REVIEW: The Hollow Bones by Leah Kaminsky
If you’ve enjoyed this review, you may like Citadel by Kate Mosse: VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: Citadel by Kate Mosse
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August 22, 2019
VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: Peaches For Monsieur le Cure by Joanne Harris
It isn't often you receive a letter from the dead. When Vianne Rocher receives a letter from beyond the grave, she has no choice but to follow the wind that blows her back to Lansquenet, the village in south-west France where, eight years ago, she opened up a chocolate shoP[...]
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August 20, 2019
BOOK REVIEW: On Mazes & Labyrinths by Charlotte Higgins
The tale of how the hero Theseus killed the Minotaur, finding his way out of the labyrinth using Ariadne’s ball of red thread, is one of the most intriguing, suggestive and persistent of all myths, and the labyrinth – the beautiful, confounding and terrifying building created for the half-man, half-bull monster [...]
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August 19, 2019
VINTAGE POST: Women of the German Resistance
Most people – when they think of German women’s attitudes towards Adolf Hitler – imagine star-struck blonde Frauleins with their hands stretched high in the Nazi […]
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August 18, 2019
BOOK REVIEW: By Sea & Stars: The Story of the First Fleet by Trent Dalton
Dazzling, poetic and vivid storytelling from one of Australia's greatest writers, which tells the bloody, brutal and enthralling story of the epic journey of the First Fleet. Originally published as a multi-part serial in The Australian, By Sea and Stars tells the story of the epic voyage which led to the founding of our nation [...]
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August 15, 2019
VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: The Raven’s Heart by Jesse Blackadder
Scotland, 1561, and a ship comes across the North Sea carrying home Mary, the young, charismatic Queen of Scots, returning after thirteen years in the French court to wrest back control of her throne. The Blackadder family has long awaited for the Queen's return to bring them justice. Alison Blackadder, disguised as a boy from childhood to protect [...]
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August 13, 2019
BOOK REVIEW: Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee
EGGSHELL SKULL: A well-established legal doctrine that a defendant must 'take their victim as they find them'. If a single punch kills someone because of their thin skull, that victim's weakness cannot mitigate the seriousness of the crime. But what if it also works the other way?
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August 11, 2019
BOOK REVIEW: The Last Balfour by Cait Duggan
Iona Balfour's life is turned upside down when her beloved aunt Grizel is executed for the crime of witchcraft. Before she dies, Grizel appoints Iona as guardian of a precious family bloodstone and tells her she must flee their village and deliver the stone to the mysterious Guild of the Green Lion[...]
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August 4, 2019
VINTAGE POST: Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
It is Winter Carnival in Quebec City, bitterly cold and surpassingly beautiful. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache has come not to join the revels but to recover from an investigation gone hauntingly wrong. But violent death is inescapable, even in the apparent sanctuary of the Literary and Historical Society - where an obsessive historian's quest for the remains of the founder of Quebec, Samuel de Champlain, ends in murder.
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