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Everybody is somebody elses weirdo – My review of If I Fall, If I Die
I have just finished If I Fall, If I Die, and it is beautiful. This book is the story of Will, a young lad with an agoraphobic mother, living in a large house with rooms named after cities. Cairo, Toronto and Paris become their cocooned world filled with art, creativity…
I’ve finished reading ‘Confessions of a Qantas flight attendant’…….
I will admit, I had a 'meh' attitude about reading this book. I had come off the back of reading two, great, YA fiction books and I thought this might be just a very long tabloid expose, but this book turned out to be something else indeed. Owen doesn't just…
Book Review…. Blood Secret
Blood Secret by Jaye Ford is a little bit like bolting down the Freeway at a 110k an hour only to realise you have been going the wrong way all along! You think you have the story sussed, and can see the destination, but you don't. Cleverly written, this book…
Book Review All the Birds, Singing…
All the Birds, Singing Evie Wyld ‘Another sheep, mangled and bled out, her innards not yet crusting and the vapours rising from her like a steamed pudding. Crows, their beaks shining, strutting and rasping, and when I waved my stick they flew to the trees and watched, flaring out their…