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Last Sunday my wife and I attended the second launch of Rosanne Hawke’s latest novel Marrying Ameera. This time the launch was in Rosanne’s home town of Kapunda in the lower north of South Australia. I wrote a review of this wonderful book here. The launch was held in one of the local art galleries [...]

Released just this week, Marrying Ameera is the latest YA novel from award winning South Australian author Rosanne Hawke. Whatever you read this year, put this novel on your MUST READ list. Ameera, 17 years old, is the daughter of an Australian mother – a Christian – and a Pakistani father who is a devout [...]

A few weeks ago I finished reading the novel for teenagers called Treasure Hunters written by Australian author Allan Baillie. What an entertaining read it proved to be. I’d read some of Allan’s books before but I forget which ones. On checking his website I found out how truly prolific his writing career has been. [...]

Book review: Nights in the asylum by Carol Lefevre It was suggested by my supervising lecturer that I read this novel. Last week we had the author as the guest speaker at our regular fortnightly seminar. These are usually critiquing sessions where we try to help each other with the novels we are each writing [...]

It is certainly true to say that many writers around the world make a good living from their craft. Vastly greater numbers make enough to pay some bills, but must supplement their writing income by having a day job. I was like that until I retired from classroom teaching. It is probably also true to [...]