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A compelling debut novel from Amanda Ortlepp that canvases the ethical complexities of embryo donation but delves deeply into the question of what it means to be a mother.
In this age of email and text message, it’s lovely to receive something in the post that isn’t a bill. It’s more lovely when that thing is a parcel. It’s even lovelier still when the parcel contains a beautiful book which has one of YOUR short stories published in it. I first started writing ‘Glory Season’ three years ago. The…
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A sensitive portrayal of the often complex relationship between siblings that asks the question – what happens when disaster strikes a fractured, but deeply held, relationship?
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The prose is magical, the plot is enrapturing and the structure is brilliant. ‘All the Light We Cannot See’ is, in a word, flawless. A deserved winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
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With confidence, bordering on audacity, Knox knits together plot and language to produce a truly extraordinary, literary technicolour dreamcoat.
We are in for a guilt-free treat! Josephine Moon is the Queensland author of two thoroughly delectable works of ‘foodie fiction’. I described her latest release, ‘The Chocolate Promise’, as the literary equivalent of a nourishing, heart-warming cup of tea – which, funnily enough, was the focus of her first novel, ‘The Tea Chest.’ In this interview, Josephine talks to Book Birdy…
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Beautifully crafted sentences tell the story of a family, struggling to maintain its functionality in a city of dysfunction.
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This book is an iron-fist in a velvet glove. You think you’re reading chick-lit, and BAM, you’re suddenly reading about one of the most serious issues facing society today.
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Children take mothers to dark places. This book of twisted fairy tales will help you see the light.
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An elegant and intelligent examination of the messiness of being human.