“We read to know we’re not alone.”
Laurinda
Opens up the inside world of teenage girls with the delicacy and unflinching precision of a forensic anthropologist Lucy Lam, Vietnamese boat refugee, has the advantage of several years at a local Western suburbs high school [...]
Messages for Sun
A Meditation on Young Romance I read a lot of young adult fiction and find much of it "dumbed-down" these days...riding along on plot ploys and dramatic twists designed to capture the elusive attention of our multi-tasking, digitally-immersed [...]
Dad, I wish I was Normal
A provocative and moving story of a family disintegrating around a fearful obsession This is a fascinating and heartbreaking story - I wish I had time to think and write more about it, as it brought up [...]
My Hip Goddess
Oddly outrageous and wackily wise - the perfect gift for wilding women I just love this book - it's entirely original. This is a goddess who steps outside the hackneyed new age stereotypes and who calls to [...]
This Place You Know
A luminous and spacious window into the lives of a mother and daughter in rural Australia 1940s-50s An exquisite love letter to the outback landscape of rural News South Wales. When Anna’s father abandons family and [...]
Writing without a Parachute
How to chart your own journey into the wilds of writing and write the story you were born to write What I love about Turner-Vesselago's Freefall approach is that it is highly intuitive and supports the [...]