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Monday, September 20, 2010

What I'm re-reading: Rosemary Sutcliff

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Well, actually I'm re-reading plenty of stuff, in between reviewing, but this is what I picked up yesterday. I'm not one of those w...
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Monday, August 30, 2010

BURNT SNOW (The Book of the Witch) By Van Badham

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Sophie Morgan and her family have just moved from Sydney to the New South Wales coastal town of Yarrindi. Yarrindi has a lot of secrets amon...
Sunday, August 29, 2010

Kim Stanley Robinson at the Melbourne Writers' Festival

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Okay, I know. Kim Stanley Robinson is in town for Aussiecon 4. I will get to hear him speak next weekend. But it has been such a very long t...
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

LITTLE PARADISE By Gabrielle Wang. Camberwell, Penguin, 2010.

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Mirabel (Lei An) is a Chinese girl in wartime Melbourne. Her family has been in Australia since the gold rushes, but they are still Chinese,...
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THE CARDTURNER By Louis Sachar. London: Bloomsbury, 2010

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This is the most recent young adult novel from Louis Sachar, author of a large number of books for children and teens, including the delight...

THE LIFE OF A TEENAGE BODY-SNATCHER By Doug MacLeod. Camberwell, Penguin Australia, 2010.

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The year is 1828. Any doctor who wants to be able to dissect corpses has to rely on the body-snatchers – or resurrectionists, as they call t...
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Monday, August 09, 2010

H.I.V.E: Rogue. By Mark Walden. London: Bloomsbury, 2010

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At the end of H.I.V.E: Dreadnought , Otto Malpense was left in the hands of the enemies of G.L.O.V.E, international organization of super-vi...
Saturday, August 07, 2010

Page Proof Time!

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I've just received the page proofs for Wolfborn ! This is pretty much what my book will look like when it comes out. Well, the layout wi...
Thursday, August 05, 2010

School Book Club and Me

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I've tried this before. It never worked. But this year, apart from the usual suspects, we have a strongly-bookloving bunch of Year 7 gir...
Saturday, July 31, 2010

The Montmaray Journals Books 1 and 2, by Michelle Cooper. Sydney, Random House, 2010

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The first of these two books, A Brief History of Montmaray, came out in 2008, and did very well, winning the NSW Premier's Literary Awa...
Monday, July 26, 2010

Copyedit Done!

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My novel, first called Bisclavret , now to come out in December as Wolfborn , is getting to the final stages. Cover design done, complete wi...
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

"Lost In Stories" and Romy

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I have checked out my new follower, Romy's, web site at http://lostinstories.blogspot.com and can heartily recommend it to anyone who l...
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Monday, July 19, 2010

MY FIRST BOOK-SIGNING

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What a day I had on Saturday July 17! It’s not that I haven’t done some book-signing before, but usually it’s been a case of trying to flog ...
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Sunday, July 18, 2010

SIX IMPOSSIBLE THINGS By Fiona Wood. Sydney: Pan Macmillan, 2010

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Dan Cereill (anagram for “Cinderella”, deliberate) has a list of six things he’d like to see, starting with kissing beautiful Estelle, the g...
Friday, July 16, 2010

Of Followers and Posts

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G'day. followers and anyone else reading this. I seem to have acquired two followers in as many days, making the number twelve. Several ...
Monday, July 12, 2010

MOMENT OF TRUTH. Book 5: The Laws Of Magic. By Michael Pryor. Sydney: Random House, 2010

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There’s a war on in the Edwardian alternative universe of The Laws Of Magic . Aubrey Fitzwilliam, son of the Prime Minister of Albion, and h...
Wednesday, July 07, 2010

On Comments in Chinese

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What is it with these Chinese "comments"? I know it happens to other bloggers, I've seen it in the Blogger complaint forum, bu...
Tuesday, July 06, 2010

MADIGAN MINE By Kirstyn McDermott. Sydney, Pan Macmillan, 2010

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Alex is in his twenties, in a shared house and working a dead-end job after failing to get anywhere with his art. Suddenly, he runs into chi...
Sunday, June 27, 2010

So, what is it with all these princesses?

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This is something for which we can't blame Stephenie Meyer. Her heroine is, at least, just the daughter of the local policeman. She migh...

THE MOTH DIARIES By Rachel Klein. London: Faber, 2004

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This book was published a long time ago. I'm guessing that it has been sent for review again because there are plans afoot to make a mov...