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Books

The Secret Cure, Sue Woolfe

January 15, 2010

Paula Grunseit
The bulk of The Secret Cure is presented as the diarised memoir of our mute narrator, Owen. Despite his late mother’s instructions not to do so, he leaves the safety and comfort of his apartment to venture outside to study ‘this tiny and pitiable world’. His mother has told him ‘to expect nothing’ [...]

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Who do you want to be today? Trinny & Susannah

January 14, 2010

Johanna Baker-Dowdell, Strawberry Communications
An avid Trinny & Susannah fan from the time I spent living in the UK in the early noughties, I relished the opportunity to flick through the pages of their latest book Who do you want to be today?
As a full-time business woman working from a home office and mother to two [...]

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The Crimson Rooms by Katharine McMahon

January 14, 2010

Jane de Graaff from I Ate It All
As a young and liberated woman today it seems inconceivable that there was ever a time when women were considered ‘less than fit’ for life in the workforce.
But this is exactly the reality that Evelyn Gifford is faced with in London, circa 1924.
The war might have ended and [...]

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Fallen by Lauren Kate

January 13, 2010

Tina Gamble
Just before she ducked into her first class, she dared to glance back. His face was blank, but there was no mistaking it – he was watching her go.
Instant. Intense. Weirdly familiar …
The moment Luce looks at Daniel she knows she has never felt like this before. Except she can’t shake the feeling that [...]

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Slippery Year by Melanie Gideon

January 13, 2010

Guest Editor, Jane de Graaff from I Ate It All
Life has never looked so funny. Sometimes if you take a moment from the everyday, set it aside an analyse it for what it is- a mere blip in time- you realise just how absurd our human lives are… and you laugh!
Melanie Gideon’s The Slippery Year [...]

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Deadly Sins by Nicholas Coleridge

January 12, 2010

Guest Editor, Andrea Parks
Deadly Sins by Nicholas Coleridge is set in Britain, this is a mini-saga about two empire-building families who work their way out of their middle class background. They cross paths (and some cross the line) in every way possible: personally, professionally, intimately and publically.
Miles Straker is an arrogant and power-hungry tyrant who [...]

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Book of Tomorrow by Cecelia Ahern

January 12, 2010

Guest Editor, Jane de Graaff from I Ate It All
Sometimes in life I’d like a really good map, a set of directions to guide the way, or possibly even a prediction of how things might be tomorrow before they even happen- just so that I could change them for the better.
But would it really help?
In her [...]

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Rich Girl, Poor Girl

January 10, 2010

Guest Editor, Jane Rowley
Big hair and even bigger shoulder pads – in the 1980’s everything was bigger and glitzier including television drama. It was the era of Dallas and the almighty mini-series. Nicole Kidman got her big break in Bangkok Hilton and Pierce Brosnan melted hearts as a Hong Kong kingpin in Noble House.
If you [...]

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