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Top 10: Memoirs

Top 10: Memoirs

Posted on October 24, 2018October 24, 2018 by Annabel Smith

I read a great deal more fiction than non-fiction, but I do love a good memoir. These are some of my favourites. Cheryl…

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BFFs & Frenemies: Top 10 Books about Friendship

BFFs & Frenemies: Top 10 Books about Friendship

Posted on August 9, 2018 by Annabel Smith

My novel-in-progress, Monkey See, is about the very unlikely friendship that forms between my protagonist, Danior and a spider monkey named Chacho who…

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Top 10: Books About Marriage

Top 10: Books About Marriage

Posted on May 31, 2018 by Annabel Smith

The novel I’m writing, the first in a series tentatively titled Monkey See, centres on the lives of a couple who’ve been married…

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20 Favourite Books from my 20s

20 Favourite Books from my 20s

Posted on September 4, 2017September 4, 2017 by Annabel Smith

My 20s were perhaps the most exciting reading period of my life. When they began I was studying literature at university, including two…

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Visiting Hours: Top 10 Medical Dramas

Visiting Hours: Top 10 Medical Dramas

Posted on April 28, 2015April 24, 2015 by Annabel Smith

One of the title characters in my novel Whiskey and Charlie is in a coma. (Don’t panic – that’s not a spoiler – it…

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Reading Round-Up: December 2013

Reading Round-Up: December 2013

Posted on January 14, 2014July 6, 2014 by Annabel Smith

December was a bit hit-and-miss for me in the reading department, with some enjoyable reads but without anything that really knocked my socks…

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Top 10 Novels About Dysfunctional Families

Top 10 Novels About Dysfunctional Families

Posted on April 30, 2013October 23, 2014 by Annabel Smith

I’ve just started reading Jami Attenberg’s The Middlesteins and it is my favourite kind of book – an analysis of an ordinary family’s…

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Top 10: Desert Island Books

Top 10: Desert Island Books

Posted on October 8, 2012October 23, 2014 by Annabel Smith

Being stranded on a desert island I’d definitely want to have a few of my all-time faves with me. But given that I’d…

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Friday Faves: Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Friday Faves: Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Posted on September 27, 2012June 21, 2014 by Annabel Smith

Welcome to… (drum roll)…Friday Faves – in which, each week, someone bookish will share one of their all-time favourite books. And to get…

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My Love/Hate Relationship with Australian Fiction (I)

My Love/Hate Relationship with Australian Fiction (I)

Posted on March 7, 2012December 16, 2014 by Annabel Smith

Last year I was invited by Westerly to write their annual fiction review. New Australian books would be delivered to me, absolutely pristine,…

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