All posts tagged "Allen and Unwin"
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772Books & LiteratureBook Review: Gulliver’s Travels, by Jonathon Swift, illustrated by Robert Ingpen
PICTURE BOOK: When Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon, sets off on the high seas in search of adventure, things never seem to go quite according to plan. A new illustrated gift edition of a beloved classic.
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2.5KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Treasure and Dirt, by Chris Hammer
THRILLER: An opal miner is found crucified and left to rot down his mine. Nothing about the miner's death is straightforward, not even who found the body. Sydney homicide detective Ivan Lucic is sent to investigate, assisted by inexperienced young investigator Nell Buchanan.
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566Books & LiteratureBook Review: Beautiful World, Where Are You, by Sally Rooney
LITERARY FICTION: Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a distribution warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood.
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1.3KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Dragon Skin, by Karen Foxlee
MIDDLE-GRADE: From the bestselling and multi-award-winning author of Lenny's Book of Everything comes a magical tale about a girl who saves a dragon and rescues her family.
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1.0KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Shaman, by Roland Perry
THRILLER: Victor Cavalier has received the phone call every parent dreads: his daughter is lying in a coma after a motorcycle accident and given little chance of survival. But when a mysterious scientist known as the Shaman intervenes to save his daughter's life, Victor decides he must meet this maverick genius.
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Bombay Prince, by Sujata Massey
HISTORICAL FICTION: The redoubtable Perveen Mistry makes her triumphant return to solve a shocking murder on the streets of 1920s Bombay.
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1.6KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Bad Boy Boogie, by Jeff Apter
BIOGRAPHY: The life, death and rock'n'roll rollercoaster career of AC/DC frontman Bon Scott.
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1.5KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Care: The Radical Art of Taking Time, by Brooke McAlary
SELF-HELP: A book that explores what it means to care in smaller ways - for ourselves, our loved ones and our communities.
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1.6KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Beyond Alice, by Tanya Heaslip
AUTOBIOGRAPHY: From the happiness and freedom of her bush childhood, Tanya Heaslip is sent to a boarding school sixteen hundred kilometres away. As these years pass surrounded by the friends she makes, Tanya's memoir is a humorous and inspiring story of strength, resilience and the realities of Australian outback life.
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965Books & LiteratureBook Review: Her Perilous Mansion, by Sean Williams
MIDDLE GRADE: In a strange mansion miles from anywhere, an orphan named Almanac and a twelfth daughter named Etta soon realise that the house and its inhabitants are not quite what they seem.
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1.0KBooks & LiteratureCalling all bookworms: there’s a new reading platform in town!
The much-loved audiobook service has finally landed on Aussie shores.
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4.0KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: With My Little Eye, By Sandra Hogan
NON-FICTION: The incredible true story of a family of spies in the suburbs of 1950s Brisbane.
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1.2KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Colonial Fantasy, by Sarah Maddison
An analysis of the relationship between black and white Australia and why whites can’t solve black problems.
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1.3KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Touch the Moon, by Phil Cummings and Coral Tulloch
An atmospheric and lyrical story about the moon landing from a uniquely Australian perspective to mark the 50-year anniversary of the moon walk.
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1.3KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Four Dead Queens, by Astrid Scholte
Four Queens. A divided nation. A ruthless pickpocket. A noble messenger. And the murders that unite them all.
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1.0KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: No Apologies, by Joanne Brookfield
Women's voices are being heard like never before and the women in comedy are claiming their space, finding their voices and telling their stories...
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3.0KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Revolution of Man, by Philip Barker
A comprehensive and direct examination of becoming a man, being a man, and learning to be a better man.
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1.7KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Familiars, by Stacey Halls
17 year old Fleetwood Shuttleworth must risk everything to help a midwife drawn into accusations of witchcraft in the 17th Century.
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2.6KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Folk of the Air Book 2: The Wicked King, by Holly Black
The second novel in the The Folk of the Air young adult fantasy trilogy sees the cruel prince now become a wicked king.
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1.6KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: I Love My Dog Embroidery, by Kokovkina Oksana
Fun designs, template and instructions on how to immortalise your dog!
