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The Wartime Book Club. Image on the left is a book cover with a picture of a 1940s woman in a yellow jumper. On the right is a colour author image of a woman in a white short sleeved blouse with mid length blonde hair and a side parting. She is smiling ruefully off to the right.
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Book review: The Wartime Book Club, Kate Thompson

The new historical fiction from this bestselling author is rewarding, but uneven.

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Book review: A Light in the Dark, Allee Richards

An examination of the aftershocks of power and its abuse.

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Book review: Home Before Night, JP Pomare

This original thriller begs to be devoured in a single sitting.

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Book review: The Invisible, Peter Papathanasiou

Some momentum is lost to digressive detail in this otherwise entertaining tale.

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Book review: Once a Stranger, Zoya Patel

An intergenerational story about family and loss, tradition and rebellion.

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Book review: The Other Side, Jennifer Higgie

An exploration of the nexus between art and spirituality.

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Book review: Time of My Life, Myf Warhurst

A life that pulses with music.

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Book review: The Wrong Woman, J.P. Pomare

Pomare's fifth crime novel moves out of Australia and into rural America.

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Book review: Daisy & Woolf, Michelle Cahill

Pulling characters from the margins to the fore: an elegant meditation on race, class and privilege.