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Friday, December 31, 2010

Me and my new T-shirt!

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Isn't it great what you can do nowadays? I decided it might be nice to promote my new book, so I went to the local camera shop and using...
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

UNEARTHLY By Cynthia Hand. Sydney: HarperCollins, 2011

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Clara is part-angel. She has known this since she turned fourteen a couple of years ago. Like others of her kind, she expects to learn her “...
Friday, December 24, 2010

What I enjoy about Christmas Day

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Christmas isn't my holiday. I don't have any need to spend it having lunch and exchanging gifts with family members. I think we had ...
Thursday, December 23, 2010

Seer Of Sevenwaters By Juliet Marillier. Pan MacMillan, 2010.

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Reviewed by guest blogger Thando Bhebe. Seer of Sevenwaters is about Sibeal, a girl committed to becoming a druid. Before her final vows sh...
Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Interview with Juliet Marillier

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This interview was conducted by guest blogger Thando Bhebe. Thando is a passionate reader who is currently diving into 30 library books sh...
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Sunday, December 12, 2010

DYMOCK’S BOOK-SIGNING AT SOUTHLAND

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I organised this months ago, with Alice, the lovely lady who arranged the mass-event for Ford Street. It could have gone better than just a ...
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Friday, December 10, 2010

Wolfborn - lots of happy-making stuff

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It finally came out officially on December 1st, although the shops had it before then. I wandered into Dymock's in the city, where I had...
Friday, December 03, 2010

Watch This Space for Juliet Marillier

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Recently, the publicist at Macmillan sent out a press release offering the latest of Juliet Marillier's Sevenwaters novels and an interv...
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Thursday, December 02, 2010

What I'm re-reading: Sword At Sunset

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After all the stuff I have been saying about Rosemary Sutcliff, I felt in the mood. I went to my overflowing bookcases in my lovely but mess...
Thursday, November 25, 2010

Eagle of the Ninth movie - I wonder...?

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They're turning Rosemary Sutcliff's Eagle of the Ninth into a movie. It made a wonderful TV series years ago, with Anthony Higgins i...
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Shameless self-promotion

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Okay, here it is, sent to me by Paul Collins, my Ford Street publisher. I'll be there, if any of you are in Melbourne and feel like comi...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

The Book Clubbers

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Okay, they're the same students. Book Club and Writers' Club - they overlap, although the Year 7 girls don't turn up to the latt...
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Saturday, November 13, 2010

OUT FOR BLOOD: Volume 3 Drake Chronicles. By Alyxandra Harvey London: Bloomsbury, 2010

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This is the third novel in the series about the peaceful vampire family, the Drakes, and the humans in their lives (or should that be their ...
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Friday, November 05, 2010

At last!

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Here it is - my book. I got my first advance copy on Thursday. I ordered some extra copies because my author copies won't be arriving fo...
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

LOW RED MOON By Ivy Devlin. London, Bloomsbury, 2010.

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Avery Hood’s parents were killed brutally in front of her, but she can’t remember a thing. The family lived near the forest next to the sma...
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THREE THINGS ABOUT DAISY BLUE (Girlfriend Fiction #20) By Kate Gordon. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2010.

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Two girls keeping diaries. One of them making lists of three. One trip to Bali with their mothers. Daisy Blue and Paulina Gifford are the d...

DEMON STORM: The School of Night. By Justin Richards. London: Faber and Faber, 2010

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Ben Foundlling lives with his sister Sam in a home - the modern equivalent of an orphanage, if not quite as awful. They have been moved from...
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Tuesday, October 05, 2010

DEMON PRINCESS: REIGN CHECK By Michelle Rowan. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2010.

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This is the second in a series. I haven’t read the first book, Reign Or Shine ; this one closes with loose ends untied, so will probably co...

DEAD MAN’S CHEST By Kerry Greenwood. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2010

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When Kerry Greenwood created the rich, beautiful, intelligent Jazz Age sleuth, Phryne Fisher, she was expecting the series to last for about...
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Monday, October 04, 2010

What I've just re-read: The King Must Die

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Unlike many of my other favourite books, I actually did read this when I was a child. Well, I didn't know it wasn't a children's...