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Kids’ Books Christmas Gift Guide
Santa has books in the bag this year with a fantastic array of titles for kids. All kids love a rollicking read, and this comprehensive gladbag mix won’t disappoint. AN AUSSIE DAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS by Kilmeny Niland We have an enormous collection of...
Book Review: Parlour Games for Modern Families
Many’s the evening in a suburban Australian home when Mum is watching Masterchef in the living room, Dad is whooping it up in front of the soccer in the family room, and the kids are variously installed in front of a computer, x-box, wii, playstati...
Book Review: Who Do You Want to Be Today?
I have a secret. I want to be Trinny Woodall. I have a girl crush, yes I do – and it’s Trinny. Love her style, love her voice, love her elegance, frankness, energy and candour. Coupled with the luscious Susannah Constantine, this illustrious, fa...
Book Review: Buddhism for Mothers of SchoolChildren by Sarah Napthali
Being a big reader of books on psychology and the inner workings of the human mind and heart, there has been many a book on my adult reading journey that’s brought me an ‘aha!’ moment or two. Few books, however – no matter how life-changing o...
Book Review: The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
Book of the Month: September 2009 – Join the discussion online at the Book Club http://www.australianwomenonline.com/awobookclub/ It’s always a little dangerous to read something that’s been lauded by the press and even more dangerous whe...
Teen Fiction: Third Transmission by Jack Heath
Wow. I started writing this review after my first chapter of Third Transmission, and I was so gobsmacked, all I ended up writing was ‘wow’. Several chapters later and now at the end of this breathtaking ride by young Canberra author, Jack Heath,...
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through the Ages
Having voraciously read all the Harry Potter books, I must admit it didn’t even dawn on me to pick up a copy of the companion novelettes – Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through the Ages. I guess I thought they were really ...
Children’s Book Review: A Taste for Red by Lewis Harris
“…What happens if your sixth-grade science teacher is also your immortal enemy..?” I must admit, I’m a little bit chicken. Part lioness, part monkey, part chicken. I’ve watched legions of fans devour the Twilight series (some young enough t...
The Real Man’s Tool Box: A DIY Health Manual for Men
Released in time for Fathers Day, The Real Man’s Tool Box by Tammy Farrell is the most important book your husband, father, brother, son, or male friend, will read all year. In May 2009, the Senate’s Select Committee on Men’s Health...
Beatle Meets Destiny – A book for teens and the teenager in all of us
Beatle Meets Destiny is the first young adult novel from former advertising copy writer and author of Two Canadian Clubs and Dry at the Martini Den, Gabrielle Williams (pictured). Set in Melbourne, the book has just been optioned to be made into a ma...
Kickstart My Heart: A Carnival of Dating Disasters
Having read both her books, I feel as though I am now living vicariously through Lana Penrose. She has led an interesting life and although we have never met in person, I feel as though I know her as intimately as I know my friends. Her first book, ...
Book Review: La’s Orchestra Saves the World by Alexander McCall Smith
“…The strutting demagogue, with his insane shouting, had fixed his eyes on them, and he was coming…” This line, in chapter eleven of Alexander McCall Smith’s latest novel, terrified me. Why? Who was this demagogue with his eyes set on the i...
Book Review: Women & Money by Suze Orman
Known throughout the United States as ‘The Money Lady’, Suze Orman is the author of nine best selling books on the subject. Named by Time Magazine in 2008 as one of the ‘100 Most Influentional People’ in the world, Orman is t...
Children’s Book Review: Darius Bell and the Glitter Pool by Odo Hirsch
It’s just so glorious to read a magical story that’s not steeped in the stereotypical fairies, wizards, goblins or mysteriously shifting worlds that appear in the blink of an eye or through some unseeming earthly portal. Since Edith Blyton sent u...
Children’s Book Review: Cicada Summer by Kate Constable
The dreamlike opening of Cicada Summer was a little painful to read. Having lost my mother far too many years ago, it was a little heartbreaking to realise, within moments of opening this junior fiction novel, that its young lead character was mother...
Childrens Book Review: Angel Cake by Cathy Cassidy
It’s been a very long time since I’ve read a young fiction novel. So long, in fact, that when I finished reading Angel Cake by British author Cathy Cassidy, I felt thirteen again. Really. It was like stepping back in time, feeling all those adole...
Book Review: The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The first thing that happened when I started reading The Help was that a teensy bit of voice escaped from my lips. A vocal gasp. The second thing that happened was an ear-to-ear grin, followed closely by a batch of freshly sprung tears. And all this ...
Children’s Book Review: Ever Clever Eva by Andrew Fusek Peters
Ever Clever Eva by Andrew Fusek Peter is the latest in The White Wolves series of books, published by A&C Black, London, are a brilliant collection of readers featuring three styles of story – Myths, Legends and Traditional Stories, Stories fro...
