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22.8.25

The Harp in the South

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I was inspired to go back to Ruth Park's Harp in the South novels after reading her autobiographies. I read the final volume, Poor Man...
21.8.25

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Helen Garner's The Season is a book about football written from the outside looking in, by a loving grandmother witnessing awkward mome...
14.8.25

The Sweetness Between Us

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The Sweetness Between Us by Sarah Winifred Searle, the next title on the Notables list, surprised me in several different ways. First, it...
13.8.25

My Brother, Finch

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Continuing my exploration of CBCA Notable books, next comes My Brother, Finch by multi-award winning author Kate Gordon. Initially I was pu...
11.8.25

The Marches

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As a big fan of Rory Stewart on the UK politics podcast, The Rest is Politics , I swooped on The Marches when it turned up in a street libr...
8.8.25

Wolf in White Van

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I borrowed John Darnielle's debut novel, Wolf in White Van , knowing absolutely nothing about it, because it's partly about role-pla...
6.8.25

The Diary of a Nobody

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After listening to an episode of the Secret Life of Books podcast, I remembered how much I'd enjoyed reading George and Weedon Grossmit...
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4.8.25

The Star of Kazan

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I think I've now read just about all of Eva Ibbotson's books, but The Star of Kazan is a particularly good example of her formula. ...
31.7.25

Angel with Two Faces

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Angel With Two Faces , volume two in Nicola Upson's Josephine Tey murder mystery series sees Tey staying in Cornwall to write a new nov...
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24.7.25

The Chronicles of Narnia and Philosophy

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With the rather twee subtitle, The Lion, The Witch and the Worldview , The Chronicles of Narnia and Philosophy (2005) is part of a series t...
23.7.25

Return to Sender

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First of all, what a beautiful cover! It's a work of art. Hazel Lam was shortlisted for a book design award for this cover and rightly s...
19.7.25

Slay

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I originally borrowed Brittney Morris's 2019 novel Slay for research into role playing games (more on that later, perhaps), but it actu...
18.7.25

Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Detective

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I've been looking forward to Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Detective since I first saw that it was on the horizon, and it did not disa...
16.7.25

A World to Build

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The history of Britain immediately after the Second World War is a period I know very little about. David Kynaston has written two books abo...
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14.7.25

My Family and Other Suspects

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Next on my CBCA Notables list was My Family and Other Suspects by Kate Emery. Yet another YA crime novel! This one was a hoot from start to...