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Magic Time Dinosaurs: Spring School Holiday Program 2025

Step through a portal and discover what happens when dinosaurs land at your school! Dream, design, and create stories, poems,…

School Holiday Activities

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Library of Unwritten Futures: Spring Holiday Program 2025

Over two magical days, storytellers will explore, invent, and create their own worlds through writing, drawing, and creative storytelling.

A man in a red shirt standing against foliage. Mark Mupotsa-Russell, author of The Wolf Who Cried Boy.
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The Wolf Who Cried Boy review: Mark Mupotsa-Russell’s heart-wrenching second novel

A six-year-old child’s reality blurs with fantasy in The Wolf Who Cried Boy.

A brunette woman wearign a black top against foliage, Jessica Mansour-Nahra, author of The Farm.
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The Farm review: Jessica Mansour-Nahra’s page-turning gothic thriller

Jessica Mansour-Nahra's The Farm poses troubling questions about the cycle of domestic violence, motherhood, and female bodily autonomy.

A young Asian woman with her hair in a pony tail. R F Kuang, author of Katabasis.
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Katabasis review: R F Kuang latest book is clever and absurd

It is rare to encounter a story that can be described as both ‘light imaginative escapism’ and ‘dense philosophical exploration’,…

A woman reading surrounded by a library. Best new fiction in Australia, September 2025.
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Best new fiction books September 2025

Your guide to the best new fiction published in September 2025.

Rhett Davis, a profile photo of a man with short grey hair. Author of Arborescence.
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Arborescence review: Rhett Davis' novel takes 'tree change' to a new level

Arborescence is speculative fiction at its best: an end-of-world story that offers green leaves of hope.

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The Far Side of the Moon and Other Stories: former journalist Jana Wendt's new book

Jana Wendt, the longstanding journalist, has now turned to fiction in her book The Far Side of the Moon and…

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Write Around the Murray Writers' Festival

Write Around the Murray, Albury's 5 day writers' festival, returns for 2025. From 10 to 14 September experience events across…

A blonde woman in green, Rebecca Starford, author of The Visitor.
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The Visitor review: Rebecca Starford's novel is Queensland gothic

Rebecca Starford's The Visitor is about ghosts we can't run away from.

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