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The Country Cookbook by Belinda Jeffrey

Reviewing a cookbook isn’t like reviewing fiction. To review a cookbook you need to be aware of how varied the desires of readers of cookbooks are, compared to, say, readers of fiction. Most people...

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The Autumn Castle by Kim Wilkins

This review contains significant spoilers, which begin after the Plot heading. There’s a tension when reviewing authors who are alive and live relatively close to you. You’d like them to succeed. You’d...

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My Country and Other Poems by Dorothea Mackellar

Technically, Dorothea Mackellar is a good poet, and she’s a pleasure to read, but her subject choice, and her mode of writing, lack some of the edge and energy of modern poetry. As a poet of the...

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Great Australian Women by Susanna de Vries

This has all of the makings of a great book of biographies. Its choice of subjects is, for the most part, sound. Its characters, as required, stand up to either poverty or oppression, and overthrow or...

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The Dawn by Louisa Lawson, volume one

Continuing in my quest to complete the Australian Women Writers Challenge, I’m cheating a little by selecting a magazine. It is, however, a really interesting magazine, if, like me, you’re into social...

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Aussie Voices: Australian Legendary Tales: Folk-Lore of the Noongahburrahs As...

This fortnight on Aussie Voices, we have a strange document, with layered significance, by a female writer who lived in north-western New South Wales. Two tales of her childhood, unprovable as all such...

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Our 2013 Reading Challenge

In 2012 we tried a basic “52 books in 52 weeks” challenge and it went well, so we wanted to have another for 2013. We couldn’t come up with a more awesome idea than the people over at the Australian...

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Finishing the Australian Women Writers Reading Challenge 2012

I decided to embrace the challenge wholeheartedly, and choose the option of reading ten books and giving a lengthy review of four. As I have some free time, I reviewed rather more. A list of links is...

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November Online ebook club – Like a House on Fire by Cate Kennedy

At the beginning of this month I admitted that I do not usually like short stories. Cate Kennedy’s Like a House on Fire was an exception. Like a House on Fire revolves around issues of loss whether...

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December online ebook club – True crime

Ok so we could have chosen a light-hearted summer holiday read for our December online ebook club, but they’re overrated don’t you think? This month, we thought we’d try true crime. True crime is very...

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