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Book review: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

Posted on June 28, 2025June 29, 2025 by aussiemoose

(courtesy Penguins Books Australia) Delving deep into someone’s life over a long period of time is something rarely afforded to us unless they are a family member or close friend. We might know people well and converse, laugh and cry with them over all sorts of life events but really Continue Reading

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Book review: Salvage by Jennifer Mills

Posted on June 27, 2025June 26, 2025 by aussiemoose

(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) What would happen if the world “ended” in slow motion? In other words, rather than the big bang and boom of the usual fall of civilisation that we have seen documented in all kinds of apocalyptic storytelling, what if the cataclysmic hell of the end of Continue Reading

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Book review: The Emilie Adventures by Martha Wells

Posted on June 24, 2025June 25, 2025 by aussiemoose

(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) Growing up should be a time of limitless optimism and possibility, a temporal place where imagination runs riot, adventure is the order of the day and all the burdens of the world don’t fall upon your still small shoulders. But sometimes, all those good and wonderful Continue Reading

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Book review: In the Key of Dale by Benjamin Lefebvre

Posted on June 20, 2025June 21, 2025 by aussiemoose

(courtesy Arsenal Pulp Press) For some people, working out where they fit in life in easy – one look and they know where it is and who they fit in with and they glide seamlessly into place with balletic ease. But others, and I suspect it’s the majority of people, Continue Reading

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Book review: How to Read a Book by Monica Wood

Posted on June 17, 2025June 22, 2025 by aussiemoose

(courtesy Harper Collins Publishers) The power of books to shape and mend peoples’ lives for the better is well and often remarked upon. Reading is seen, and quite rightly too, as a way of engendering wonder, curiosity and empathy, of opening the minds of those who lose themselves in books Continue Reading

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Book review: The Show Woman by Emma Cowing

Posted on June 13, 2025June 13, 2025 by aussiemoose

(courtesy Hachette Australia) When you think of hopes and dreams, those alluring baubles of possibility and fulfillment that dangle prettily far above the grungily depressing landscape of life, you never really think in terms of how much it takes to make them happen (assuming they happen at all but who Continue Reading

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“This is where everything is headed” … Foundation S3’s awe-inspiring trailer

Posted on June 13, 2025June 13, 2025 by aussiemoose

(courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTBased on the award-winning sci-fi novels by Isaac Asimov, Foundation chronicles a band of exiles on their monumental journey to save humanity and rebuild civilization amid the fall of the Galactic Empire. The premise of the stories is that, in the waning days of a future Galactic Continue Reading

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Book review: Dancing With Bees by Anna Maynard

Posted on June 11, 2025June 11, 2025 by aussiemoose

(courtesy Allen & Unwin Book Publishers) Love is way more weighty and muscular and substantial than many people give it credit for. There is a prevailing idea that romantic love is wispy and wafty, all red roses and swoons and sighs and dreamy looks at your beloved, and while yes, Continue Reading

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Book review: The Empress Murders by Toby Schmitz

Posted on June 10, 2025June 10, 2025 by aussiemoose

(courtesy Allen & Unwin Book Publishers) Ladies and gentlemen and ill-advised members of the ocean liner-going public – this novel is not your grandmother’s Agatha Christie. The Empress Murders by Toby Schmitz, which first moves at a liner-appropriate pace before hitting the narrative pedal-to-the-metal and gloriously defying all expectations, may Continue Reading

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Book review: The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer

Posted on June 7, 2025June 6, 2025 by aussiemoose

(courtesy Hachette Australia) Imagination is a powerful thing. In a world held fast by the often tight and deadening hand of grim, dark and soulless reality, the ability to imagine places, people and times that operate above and beyond the everyday is a salvation, a gift that allows us to Continue Reading

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    (courtesy IMP awards) INVASION season 2 Episode 1: “The Ones We Leave Behind” When last we visited the blighted citizens of Invasion Earth, the alien mothership had crashed into a mountain range, heroes, U.S. soldier Trevante Cole (Shamier Anderson) and British schoolboy-turned-alien-psychic Caspar Morrow (Billy Barratt) were MIA, presumed dead, Continue Reading
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    (courtesy IMP Awards) It’s well recognised time memories are a wholly unreliable witness. We might think we are recalling things exactly as they are, but when the truth of the matter surfaces, it soon becomes clear that we remember is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth but Continue Reading
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    (courtesy IMP Awards) How do you, to wildly and wilfully paraphrase a song from The Sound of Music, solve a problem like keeping a franchise fresh and vital years after the height of its emergent and zeitgeist dominating popularity? It’s a great and enduring conundrum, one given even more present Continue Reading
  • Book review: June in the Garden by Eleanor Wilde
    (courtesy Text Publishing) We all crave a place to belong. There’s an innate drive to find our tribe, our people which defines all of us, with the presence of whatever we know as family enriching us and its absence impoverishing and isolating in ways innumerable. In short, we need companions Continue Reading
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    (via Shutterstock) Pop music is catchy yes but you also want it to say something, mean something and make you feel something. There must be dancing and thinking and dives into the depths of the soul, all of which we get with these five songs from incredibly talented and marvellously Continue Reading
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    SNAPSHOTTV Shows have a long production gestation, which goes through stages like pitching, writing, rewriting (lots of rewriting), development, and production. ScreenCrush guides you through every step of this process to understand how they actually make TV Shows. (courtesy Laughing Squid) When you fire up your favourite streaming platform and Continue Reading
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    Comedy, if you’re not paying attention, might look for all the world like a rip-roaring fun fair of ephemerally hilarious nothing, there one amusing minute and gone the more soberly serious next. But in the hands of someone who truly knows what they’re doing, a richly comedic story can wield Continue Reading
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    (courtesy IMP Awards) Stepping into a Pixar film, you are usually guaranteed of two things: Elio well and truly meets that expectation; but here’s the things with Pixar – where other filmmakers might be happy to do the deliver the same trademark elements over and over because they are expected Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Life of Chuck by Stephen King
    (courtesy Hachette Australia) Like many other people, I am well acquainted with Walt Hitman’s immortal line “I contain multitudes”, taken from his poem “Song of Myself, 51”. It is one of those popularly understood but not always fully ruminated on lines that resonate with people, even if many of us Continue Reading
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