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Monthly Archives: June 2013

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The Godfather: Peter Corris on lost expressions

June 28, 2013

A Sunday birthday lunch, old and young gathered around the table. A child asks an adult what she’s doing when …

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ANNIE COSSINS The Baby Farmers. Reviewed by Linda Funnell

June 27, 2013

Sydney in the 1890s: shame, syphilis and infanticide. If you were unmarried and pregnant, or married and unable to afford …

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M JOHN HARRISON Light: Book One of the Kefahuchi Tract. Reviewed by Keith Stevenson

June 25, 2013

Hallucinatory, worldly and entertaining science fiction with a lot to say about the human condition. Michael Kearny is a particle …

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The Godfather: Peter Corris re cycling

June 21, 2013

When I was very young, say seven or eight, my father worked in Bruce Small’s bike shop in Moonee Ponds, …

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HANNAH RICHELL The Shadow Year. Reviewed by Jody Lee

June 19, 2013

The second novel from the author of Secrets of the Tides explores the sinister legacy of an idealistic experiment.  It …

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JUAN GABRIEL VÁSQUEZ The Sound of Things Falling. Reviewed by Rosana Bouzas

June 18, 2013

This mystery is set in a Columbia emerging from the drug wars and haunted by memory and loss. The Sound …

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The Godfather: Peter Corris on William Boyd

June 14, 2013

A writer and his agent were having lunch in an up-market London restaurant a few years ago. The agent was …

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Crime Scene: REBECCA JAMES Sweet Damage. Reviewed by Karen Chisholm

June 13, 2013

Things that go bump in the night add to the suspense in this cautionary tale of young adult friendships. Marketed …

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NIGEL FEATHERSTONE I’m Ready Now. Reviewed by Walter Mason

June 11, 2013

A nuanced and thoroughly original novella about the special link between mother and son.  A newly widowed Tasmanian woman travels …

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The Godfather: Peter Corris on being an unhandy man

June 7, 2013

A section of the wooden front gate has fallen off and now lies on the ground inside the fence. I’ve …

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