Posts By Rebecca Wu
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634Books & LiteratureBook Review: Kinky History,  by Esmé Louise James
NON-FICTION: Kinky History aims to blow open our conversation about sexuality and gender. Strap yourself in (or on?) – let’s build a...
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Kamogawa Food Detectives, by Hisashi Kashiwai
MYSTERY: The Kamogawa Food Detectives, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese sleuthing series...
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843Books & LiteratureBook Review: Eventually Everything Connects, by Sarah Firth
NON-FICTION: A delicious mix of daily life, science, philosophy, pop culture, daydreams and irreverent humour, Eventually Everything Connects is a work of...
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860Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Shift, by Tinx
NON-FICTION: A guide to dating, self-worth and becoming the main character of your life.
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1.4KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Make it Meaningful, by Debbie Haski-Leventhal
PERSONAL GROWTH: Unorthodox meets Start with Why: how escaping a cult led Debbie Haski-Leventhal to become a ‘professor of purpose’ and master...
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1.7KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, by Lisa See
HISTORICAL FICTION: In 15th century China two women are born under the same sign, the Metal Snake. But life will take the...
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1.5KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Back to Bangka, by Georgina Banks
MEMOIR: Georgina Banks searches for the truth of what happened to her Great Aunt ‘Bud’, killed in the Second World War.
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1.6KFilm & TVCunard British Film Festival: Mad About the Boy
This lavish documentary feature explores the life and work of Noel Coward.
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1.1KArtsOzAsia Festival Review: Saudara Sound System
In its current format a little niche, has lots of potential
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1.5KFilm & TVCunard British Film Festival: Jackie Stewart
This documentary feature explores the life and achievements of one of the world's greatest race-drivers: Jackie Stewart.
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1.3KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: On Our Best Behaviour, by Elise Loehnen
SELF-HELP: Why do women equate self-denial with being 'good' and what would happen if they stopped trying to be 'good'?
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796ArtsOzAsia Festival Review: The Special Comedy Comedy Special
Non-stop entertainment and lots of laughs
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836ArtsTheatre Review: Grow Up Grandad
Funny, poignant and masterfully performed, it is a play for everyone
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2.6KLatestFilm Review: Caravaggio’s Shadow
Italy 1610. Artist Caravaggio, ignores Catholic Church rulings that dictate how religious subjects are to be represented. Pope Paul V orders the...
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868Books & LiteratureBook Review: Sea Change, by Jim Blake
NON-FICTION: Adelaide's coastal settlements have undergone mighty changes over the last 186 years. Using rare photographs, including many from the 19th century,...
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1.3KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: My Friend Anne Frank, by Hannah Pick-Goslar
MEMOIR: In this never-before-seen memoir, Bergen-Belsen survivor Hannah Pick-Goslar shares incredibly powerful words on the final untold portrait of her childhood friend,...
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913Film & TVItalian Film Festival: The Circle
Filmed over five years, this documentary feature shows primary school students, during "circle time", exploring concepts of childhood, identity, and education.
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726Books & LiteratureBook Review: Art, by Dr Charmaine Papertalk Green and John Kinsella
POETRY: The second collaborative poetry work from Charmaine Papertalk Green and John Kinsella. It is a formidable call and response piece that...
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1.0KFilm & TVFilm Review: Past Lives
The reunion of two childhood friends becomes a chance for a re-examination of lives lived, and not lived.
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1.0KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Crossing, by Sophie Matterson
MEMOIR: An epic story of leaving everything behind to find purpose, adventure and love by crossing 4750km of rugged Australian terrain with...
