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Saturday, July 22, 2017

Of Doctors And Regeneration - Some Silly Thoughts!

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So, we have a female Doctor, after months of speculation. Well, we have had a female version of the Master, everyone says, so why not a fema...
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Friday, July 21, 2017

An Interview With Vikki Wakefield

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My guest today is Vikki Wakefield, award-winning Aussie YA novelist whose recent novel Ballad For A Mad Girl I discovered in my goody b...
Monday, July 10, 2017

The Laws Of Magic - Steampunk Rules!

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The Laws Of Magic is a series of six steampunk novels by Aussie YA novelist Michael Pryor. Michael Pryor is a wonderful writer anyw...
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Saturday, July 08, 2017

Matters Arising From The Identification Of The Body by Simon Petrie.Sydney: Peggy Bright, 2017

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I bought this from the author as he was staffing the Peggy Bright Books table at this year's Continuum convention. Peggy Bright B...
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Tuesday, July 04, 2017

Just Finished Reading... Ballad For A Mad Girl by Vikki Wakefield. Melbourne: Text, 2017

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I received this book courtesy of Text Publishing, in my Reading Matters conference goody bag. I was a bit surprised, because it was a very n...
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Saturday, July 01, 2017

CBCA Shortlist #5 and #6: Captain Jimmy Cook Discovers Third Grade And Dragonfly Song

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So, as I have read these two nominees a long time ago, and reviewed Captain Jimmy Cook and interviewed the author of Dragonfly Son...

CBCA Shortlist #4: Mrs Whitlam by Bruce Pascoe. Magabala Books, 2016

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This is in the Younger Readers category of this year's shortlist. Younger Readers books vary from picture storybooks to books t...
Thursday, June 29, 2017

CBCA Shortlist #2: Yellow by Megan Jacobson. Melbourne: Penguin, 2016

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"Yellow" is the nickname of Kirra Barley, given to her because of her unusual eye colour, by her father, whose nickname i...
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CBCA Shortlist #3: The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon. Hachette, 2016

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Subhi is a refugee. Born in an Australian permanent detention centre after his mother fled the violence of a distant homeland, life b...
Friday, June 23, 2017

CBCA Shortlist #1: Frankie by Shivaun Plozza.

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Once again I'm making my way through the shortlist, at least the Older Readers. I've just finished this one and borrowed Yellow by...
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Sunday, June 18, 2017

What I Was Doing At 4.20 am this morning... A radio interview!

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The interview was on the ABC radio program Overnights, about my book Crime Time: Australians Behaving Badly . I have to take my hat off...
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Tuesday, June 13, 2017

The Wizardry Of Jewish Women - The New Edition!

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And here's the new cover! Nice, isn't it? A while ago, some of my friends who had books with small press Satalyte Publishi...
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Monday, June 12, 2017

Back From Another Con With More Books - Day 2!

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Today's con was only going till 2.00 pm plus closing ceremony, so I wanted to get to as many sessions as possible. There was no lunch re...
Sunday, June 11, 2017

Back From Another Con... With More Books! Day 1

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And here they are! I did download one book, Feed , by Mira Grant, the pen name of Seanan McGuire, the GoH of this year's Continuum - Num...
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Friday, June 09, 2017

The Vorkosiverse and Technology

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Checking my Pages app, I discovered this post I'd never got around to using. I wrote it in March this year. So here it is - enjoy!  ...
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