Top 10 Books of 2020
Happy new year! In no particular order, these were my favourite reads from the last 12 months (not necessarily published in 2020). I…
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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 Coming-of Age Stories
One of the characters in my forthcoming novel The Ark is fifteen year old Roscoe. I feel for Roscoe, coming of age in…
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Top Ten Book Club Books
Some time ago I asked the members of my book club what they thought made a good book club book. Most agreed that…
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Best Books of 2013
I’ve read lots of wonderful books this year; these are my very favourites, in no particular order. Follow the links for full reviews/responses: Specimen…
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Reading Round-Up: October 2013
Australian Women Writers’ Challenge This month I totally cleaned up on my reading for the AWW Challenge, beginning with Kirsty Murray’s Vulture’s Gate, a…
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Reading Round-Up: August & September 2013
I started August with Dave Eggers’ A Hologram for the King. Neither the title nor the description appealed to me but I like…
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