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Books May 26, 2018
Get Up Mum
Justin Heazlewood – best known as the ARIA award-nominated comedian The Bedroom Philosopher – had his very first bad memory aged six. His mother told his nan and pop they’d never see their grandchild again. With the little boy bawling, she dragged …
Books March 31, 2018
Little Gods
Melbourne-based writer Jenny Ackland’s debut novel The Secret Son (2015), a meditation on Gallipoli, was all about men. Her second book, Little Gods, is all about girls. In particular, girls growing up. The novel follows heroine Olive …
Books April 21, 2018
The Girl Who Smiled Beads
When Clemantine Wamariya attended The Oprah Winfrey Show she seemed, on the surface, a normal American teenager: she was a cheerleader and lived with a prosperous, supportive family. But Wamariya, who had arrived in the United States aged 12 …
Books November 04, 2017
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
The Travelling Cat Chronicles has an unusual narrator: a tough-talking, no-nonsense white male cat who declares himself, rather proudly, a “realist”. Nana, as he is later named – a reference in Japanese to his crooked tail that looks like …
