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Thursday, August 27, 2009

Andy Griffiths Meets 8A

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I'd been planning this excursion for ages. There was a choice between Andy Griffiths - the author of various books about bums and kids ...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009

PINK By Lili Wilkinson. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2009

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Ava is the child of two university lecturers who were absolutely thrilled when she “came out” and started a relationship with intellectual, ...
Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Vale David McDonnell - another fan gone!

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For those readers who remember this fan, I'd just like to pass on the information that David died July 21 2009. I first met David when h...
Sunday, June 07, 2009

THE REFORMED VAMPIRE SUPPORT GROUP By Catherine Jinks. Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 2009

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Catherine Jinks has to be one of the most versatile writers I know of. Historical fiction, SF, fantasy, thriller, ghost stories, children’s,...
Friday, May 01, 2009

SOMETHING MORE By Mo Johnson. Series: Girlfriend Fiction 11. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2009

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Girlfriend Fiction series is quite a mixture, from the hilarious ( My Life and Other Catastrophes, The (Not Quite) Perfect Boyfriend ) to th...
Monday, March 23, 2009

THE GIMLET EYE By James Roy. Quentaris: Quest of the Lost City #3. Melbourne, Ford Street Publishing, 2009.

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In this third instalment of the spin-off of the popular Quentaris shared-world series, a character from the original series is actually kill...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Schooling Around: Treasure Fever!, Pencil of Doom!, Mascot Madness! By Andy Griffiths. Sydney, Pan Macmillan, 2008, 2009.

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Andy Griffiths is the author of a lot of over-the-top Australian children’s books. His stories are funny and bizarre without quite the gros...
Saturday, February 07, 2009

EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL By Simmone Howell. Sydney: Pan Macmillan, 2008

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Riley Rose is stuck at Spirit Ranch Holiday Camp, just when she was about to get close and personal with that hunk Ben. It’s filled with Chr...
Sunday, January 25, 2009

Hi Jenny G!

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Thanks, Jenny! You're not the first one to say Phryne Fisher is too perfect and you won't be the last. I treat it as delightful fant...
Saturday, January 03, 2009

Bookmark Days By Scot Gardner. (Girlfriend Fiction 9) Crow’s Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin, 2009

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Avril lives with her farming family in rural Victoria, Australia. She loves her life, although her family has had a feud going with their ne...
Saturday, December 06, 2008

Murder On A Midsummer Night by Kerry Greenwood

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Crow's Nest, Allen and Unwin, 2008 We all thought it would never happen - Phryne Fisher in 1929? The author said it was always going to...
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Look What I Did!

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I've just had the first advance copy of my new children's book, Crime Time: Australians behaving badly , which is coming out from Fo...
Saturday, November 08, 2008

Some More Girlfriend Fiction

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STEP UP AND DANCE, by Thalia Kalkipsakis, THE SWEET LIFE by Rebecca Lim, CASSIE by Barry Jonsberg: Girlfriend Fiction 6, 7 and 8. St Leonard...
Sunday, November 02, 2008

Loathing Lola comment

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Whoops! The author has sent a comment that he has only a brother, not a sister. I can only plead that I'd been up since 6.00 a.m., at wo...
Saturday, October 25, 2008

LOATHING LOLA By William Kostakis

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Sydney, Pan Macmillan, 2008. I didn’t get this book for reviewing. I bought it after hearing the author speak and, having read it, decided...
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Saturday, October 18, 2008

NAOMI AND ELY’S NO-KISS LIST By Rachel Cohn and David Levithan. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 22008

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Naomi and Ely, two university students in New York city, have known each other since early childhood. They live in the same huge apartment b...
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THE CHAOS CODE By Justin Richards. London: Faber and Faber, 2007

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Computers that can create monsters in the real world, using the elements of water, fire, air and earth, ancient jungle ruins, a millionaire ...
Saturday, October 11, 2008

Anonymous Comment on Alison Croggon

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I got a comment from Anonymous, not on the book I have reviewed but on Alison Croggon. Sorry. I don't do personal. If I want to do polit...
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

The Gift. First Book of Pellinor. By Alison Croggon

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Camberwell, Vic.: Penguin, 2002 Alison Croggon is a poet. It shows, in the style of her writing and in the verses used as ballads and prophe...
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Saturday, August 30, 2008

Melbourne Writers' Festival 2008

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Good news. Melbourne has been declared a UNESCO "City of Literature." Nice to hear, if we can live up to it. I have been going to ...
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