I enjoyed The Tides Between, by Elizabeth Jane Corbett, for many reasons. Warm, layered characters that you care about, lyrical and beautiful prose, and a wonderful depth of humanity. This coming of age story whose protagonist, Bridie Stewart, spends her journey to Port Phillip trying to understand her place in her family and the wider world. In … More Review: The Tides Between
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This enjoyable and lyrical read by Louisa Deasey is about what happens when a city girl abandons her comfortable urban life to hit the road with the man she loves. The novel is both light-hearted and serious, examining the tension in even the most loved-up couples when there is a lack of personal space and, … More Review: Love and Other U-Turns
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Bessie crouched in the bushes at the top of the paddock. Kangaroos grazed nearby, a joey peeked out of his mother’s pouch as she nosed the grass. The sky was a pale blaze, grey blue with the menace of heat. The house was below, its slate roof dotted with patches of…
Hello all, For those of you who were unable to be at my launch on the 6th of December, I thought I’d fill you in about how it all went. As you can imagine, I was excited but apprehensive on the day of the launch. I took in my huge banner to Page 8 bookshop … More Stone Circle Launch update
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It was the first holiday Rahda had taken since the funeral one year before. Numbed and hollowed out, she had buried herself in work. She was on an island in the Whitsundays. Her hut on the beach was thin-walled but cosy, with rattan furniture and a lazily-spinning fan. There was a…
It’s been six years since I started writing and around four years since I finished Stone Circle. I then spent some time on the now defunct writing site ‘Authonomy’, run by Harper Collins, which I think of as my apprenticeship, along with a brief stint at Swinburne University. Writers critiqued each others’ work and competed to rise … More Birthing a historical fantasy baby
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