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The story of Australia’s first Japanese “war bride”

28/12/2023

 
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AT THE FOOT OF THE CHERRY TREE
By Alli Parker

​After surviving the Hiroshima bomb, Nobuko Sakuramoto, known as Cherry Parker, again defied the odds becoming the first Japanese “war bride” permitted into Australia, after four years of  lobbying by her husband Gordon Parker. This is their real-life love story reimagined by author (and Cherry and Gordon's granddaughter) Alli Parker.
Published by Harper Collins  2023  |  Historical fiction, Australian Author

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Retrieving a lost life from the historical black box

13/11/2023

 
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WIFEDOM: MRS ORWELL'S INVISIBLE LIFE 
By Anna Funder 


The result of author Anna Funder’s plunge into the historical “black box” of George Orwell's wife Eileen O'Shaughnessy is a biography quite unlike any I’ve ever read.


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Published by Penguin, July 2023  |  Fiction, Memoir, Australian Author 

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Power of words shine in brilliantly imagined slice of history

24/7/2023

 
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Published by Affirm Press, March 2023  |  Historical Fiction 
THE BOOKBINDER OF JERICHO
By Pip Williams

 
A perfect companion to Pip Williams’ wildly successful debut, The Bookbinder of Jericho explores the power in words by weaving a brilliantly imagined story around a slice of very real history, with a cast of women who rise in the face of the brutal upheaval of World War One. 

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Titillating Hollywood tale

26/2/2023

 
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Published by Simon & Schuster 2017 |  Fiction
THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO
By Taylor Jenkins Reid
 
Splintering the mythical splendour of Hollywood’s golden age, this tale provides a titillating and entertaining (although, truth be told, not terribly challenging) exploration of the price of fame.   

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Small kindnesses triumph in this WWII epic

8/10/2022

 
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Published by 4th Estate  2014  |  Fiction  
ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE 
By Anthony Doerr


Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize winning 2014 novel All The Light We Cannot See is a captivating story celebrating the small triumphs scattered among the tragedies experienced by many during the second world war. 



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Darwin shines in this Aussie allegorical quest

22/7/2022

 
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ALL OUR SHIMMERING SKIES 
By Trent Dalton 


​As young gravedigger Molly Hook’s odyssey unfolds, bleakness gives way to an almost mystical narrative, ripe with the comical, sensory, over-the-top feels for which Trent Dalton has become known. 
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Published by Fourth Estate, December 2020  |  Fiction 

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Quirky, sensory thriller unveils power of scent

15/3/2022

 
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PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER 
By Patrick Suskind


A terrifyingly humorous and sinister examination of blind obsession, explored through the mind of a man who perceives the world not through vision but by smell.
Published by Penguin | 1985 | Historical Fiction

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A stunning tale that will hook all word lovers

26/1/2022

 
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THE DICTIONARY OF LOST WORDS
By Pip Williams


In a wonderfully original debut, Pip Williams weaves a moving and brilliantly imagined fictional story around the very real case of a word quite literally lost as the Oxford English Dictionary was compiled.  
Published by Affirm Press 2020 | Historical Fiction, Australian author

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A lyrical love story entwined in an epic pilgrimage

24/10/2021

 
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DEVOTION
by Hannah Kent 


True to form, Hannah Kent’s intense, lyrical prose is utterly immersive in her new novel, Devotion, a love story entwined within a fascinating historical context.
Published by Pan Macmillan-Picador, October 2021  |  Fiction, Australian, Women, Historical  

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The untold story of a colonial enigma

12/9/2021

 
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A ROOM MADE OF LEAVES
by Kate Grenville


Kate Grenville has captured the 
imagined voice of enigmatic pastoralist Elizabeth Macarthur in a way that makes you rethink everything you may have learnt about colonial Sydney, in her new novel A Room Made of Leaves. ​
Published by Text Publishing, August 2021  |  Historical Fiction, Australian, Women 

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