Top 10: Memoirs
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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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