All posts tagged "Romance"
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134Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Things We See in the Light, by Amal Awad
ROMANCE: Eight years ago, Sahar married Khaled and followed him to Jordan, leaving behind a thriving cake business. But married life didn’t go as planned and, haunted by secrets, Sahar has returned home to Sydney without telling her husband.
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Qixi Festival (Chinese Valentine’s Day)
The Qixi Festival (Double Seventh Festival) is one of the Chinese traditional festivals, also known as the Chinese Valentine’s Day. It’s based on a romantic legend about a weaver girl and an ox herd. It falls on the 7th day of the 7th Chinese lunar month. Like the western Valentine’s Day on 14 February, giving […]
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245Books & LiteratureBook Review: Mirror Man, by Fiona McIntosh
THRILLER: The highly anticipated new crime thriller in the DCI Jack Hawksworth series.
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538Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Promise, by Lucy Diamond
CONTEMPORARY FICTON: As Dan Sheppard tries to hold on to the unravelling threads of his late brother's family, he begins to see that his brother’s legacy might not be all that perfect.
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672Books & LiteratureBook Review: Unmarriageable, by Soniah Kamal
A modern retelling of "Pride and Prejudice" updated to be set in conservative Pakistani society and centering around an independent 30 year old woman.
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468Books & LiteratureBook Review: Glimpses of The Moon, by Edith Wharton
Two penniless Americans decide to use the gifts and goodwill of their wealthy friends to live the life they want for a year.
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764Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Travel Club, by Jeanie Wood
Six women become friends and form a travel club, each with their own story to tell.
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894Books & LiteratureBook Review: Love! by Zoë Foster Blake
An indispensable reference guide to the heart by Australia's favourite relationship advisor Zoe Foster Blake.
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Legacy of Orïsha 1: Children of Blood and Bone, by Tomi Adeyemi
Zélie Adebola has been chosen by the Sky Mother to bring back magic in the country of Orïsha and restore the majji to their former glory.
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643Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Winters, by Lisa Gabriele
A young woman is pulled from the life she has always known when a rich, older, sophisticated, politician steals her heart.
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741Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Ruth Roth Series, by Paula Houseman
A misfit who is trying to find her place in the world, grows into a tall and beautiful woman with a mouth and mind ruled by the goddess of obscenity.
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536Books & LiteratureBook Review: Love is More than Just a Pearl Necklace, by Caroline Dowdall
A coming-of-age adult novel that explores the love and loss of a teenage girl whose insecurities are challenged when faced by the promiscuity of her peers.
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647EntertainmentFilm Review: Cold War
Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski's post WW II love story, inspired by his own parents.
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673Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Winter Soldier, by Daniel Mason
The year is 1914 and the First World War has just begun. In Vienna, a young boy studying to be a doctor volunteers to be a doctor’s assistant to gain experience but finds himself thrown into the war.
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591Books & LiteratureBook Review: August Falling, by Les Zig
As an active people-watcher, August ritually sits in a cafe with his notebook until the seemingly carefree and confident Julie enters the café and he finds himself inspired enough to give love a second chance.
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600Books & LiteratureBook Review: Bobby Shafter, by John Standingford
They say it takes a village to raise a child. How many characters does it take to bring two people together, when they are separated by age, class and education?
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1.1KFilm & TVItalian Film Festival Review: Put Nonna in the Freezer (Metti la Nonna in Freezer)
When Claudia's grandmother dies, she is convinced to put the body in her freezer to keep claiming the pension cheques, even as romance begins to blossom between her and a romantically hapless Tax Police officer.
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346Film & TVFilm Review: Submergence
For those who enjoy tortured romances set in attention-grabbing locations, this will be a winner.
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649Books & LiteratureBook Review: Providence, by Caroline Kepnes
Jon Bronson is an outsider, a loner except for his friendship with Chloe. When he is abducted, the world moves on. When Jon returns, four years later, he has changed in a way he can’t explain...
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563Books & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Crazy Rich Asians, by Kevin Kwan
When Rachel Chu goes to Singapore with her boyfriend for his best mate's wedding, she has no idea just how ridiculously rich he and his friends are, nor how much effort his family will put into getting rid of her.
