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The Naturalist of Amsterdam. Image is a side on above the bust author's shot of a woman in a green shirt with light red shoulder length hair. smiling, and on the right an orange book cover featuring a sparse tree, two butterflies and a caterpillar.
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Book review: The Naturalist of Amsterdam, Melissa Ashley

Ashley's latest book is an historical fiction set at the turn of the 18th century and featuring unsung women who…

We Only Want What's Best. Image is book cover with woman in sleeveless white dress arms akimbo and big earrrings.
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Book review: We Only Want What's Best, Carolyn Swindell

Turbulence and scandal in the dance world as seen from the perspectives of both parents and children.

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So you want my arts job: Publishing Managing Editor

Kevin O'Brien manages both staff and books in his busy, very much hands-on, senior editorial position.

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Book review: Songs for the Dead and the Living, Sara M Saleh

A powerful story about what it means to find home and identity among conflict and migration.

Book review: Broke, Sam Drummond

A memoir about the intersection between disability and financial precarity advocates for compassion.

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Book review: The Year My Family Unravelled, Cynthia Dearborn

How do you go about looking after an ailing aged parent when you are halfway across the world from each…

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Book review: Blackwater, Jacqueline Ross

A slow build Gothic debut has ties to historical Tasmania.

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Book review, Raised By Wolves, Jess Ho

Lifting the lid on food and hospo culture.

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Book review: Big Beautiful Female Theory, Eloise Grills

Grills critiques the fetishisation of aesthetic counterpoints by highlighting the ‘to-be-looked-at-ness’ of her own personal journey.

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Book review: Another Australia, edited by Winnie Dunn

The follow up collection to After Australia, this book offers the lived experience of Indigenous and writers of colour.

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