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Amra Pajalic
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whispers behind the wire update
Not going to lie — I almost shelved the bonus content for Whispers Behind the Wire this week. Launch brain is real, and by the time the main event is out the door, the idea of also finishing a companion essay AND a short story can feel like one task too many. I had the “maybe next time” excuse half-written.
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Then I looked at the newsletter numbers. People are still downloading the bonus content from Read more of this blog post »
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I love Jeanette Winterson. I read her memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? and really enjoyed it, so I was keen to pick up this collection of ghost stories. The introduction is worth reading. Winterson traces how the ghost story has developed ...more |
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I’ve been working my way through the Opal Fields series, and we’ve been listening to this fifth book as an audiobook. I'm really enjoying it. This time a woman’s body turns up at the bottom of a mine shaft, and Jenny investigates. The case takes her i ...more |
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We’ve been looking for a text for our Year 7 EAL class, and this is the one we picked. Huda is nine, and the story is told by her older brother Akil, who is in awe of how brave she is. Their dad loses his job as a security guard because there’s no cri ...more |
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I met Warren at the Clunes Booktown Festival (and, I think, at another book fair before that). We got talking, swapped books, and I read his memoir. It’s a story of survival and triumph. Warren was born to an Aboriginal father and was left at an orpha ...more |
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She comes in as an investigator with a plan, a safety net, and an exit strategy. The book slowly takes all three away from her, and what's left is someone who has to decide what she still owes to people who don't have an exit strategy at all—Afsana,
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Without spoiling it—how does Seka change over the course of this book?
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# Book Review: The Good House by Tananarive Due I jumped back into horror for this book review with *The Good House* by Tananarive Due. Due also wrote *The Reformatory*, an amazing horror novel I've been recommending to everyone — and every horror rea ...more |
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I've been following Fiona Tarr's Opal Fields Mystery series for a while now, listening to them as audiobooks, and I just finished Her Hidden Bones (book four) — already onto book five. One of the things I love most about this series is the sense of pl ...more |
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“She was a victim of her own brain chemistry, and as her daughter my role was to accept and love her for who she was, not who I wanted her to to be.”
― Things Nobody Knows But Me
― Things Nobody Knows But Me
“Our mother was different, but that’s what we liked about her. While other children had strict routines and consequences, we had freedom and frivolity— and we didn’t want the party to end.”
― Things Nobody Knows But Me
― Things Nobody Knows But Me
“While I’d had many upheavals during my young life, the one constant and been my mother. Now that she was in another country and completely lost to me, I realised how much she was a part of me. Missing her was like a physical ache that I could not assuage.”
― Things Nobody Knows But Me
― Things Nobody Knows But Me
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“I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!”
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“It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it was like a bomb waiting to go off. I always felt that way about the South, that beneath the smiles and southern hospitality and politeness were a lot of guns and liquor and secrets.”
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“Ages fourteen to eighteen, a girl needs something to kill all that time, that endless itchy waiting, every hour, every day for something — anything — to begin.”
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Hello Amra, it is a pleasure to meet you. If you ever have any questions about Harlequin or our books, please feel free to ask.Kim S, Harlequin Books ambassador