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Finding Nino by Marc Llewellyn

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Finding Nino seems to have all the right ingredients for a great travel story. Set on the isolated Italian island of Lipari, the author begins a new life with his family in a run down house with views of the Mediterranean and a smouldering volcano. The story follows life with his beautiful wife, their newborn baby and a quirky Italian landlord named Nino. In theory falling in love with this book should have been a no-brainer, unfortunately it wasn’t that easy. Reviewed by Jessica Carter.

Murder on the Apricot Coast by Marion Halligan

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Murder on the Apricot Coast by Marion Halligan is a very Australian murder-mystery. This is great if you’re a fan of the genre. If you’re not and you happen to dislike our nation’s capital, the novel may not digest so well. Reviewed by Natasha Chow.

Friday Nights by Joanna Trollope

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Oh my gawdidy-gawd-gawd. It’s always interesting to see how women write about other women. You’d think, to be completely honest, that they’d have it down pat. That to write about a woman is to write from the soul or something else hallucinatory along those lines. Sometimes you do find phrases that just hit home – really come and elbow you in boob with their honesty. When a female writer describes the frustration when you can’t find your fat pants or when your lover silently insists that yes, massaging your breasts furiously feels good – nothing compares to the rush of appreciation felt towards that author.

Lessons in Heartbreak by Cathy Kelly

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Lessons in Heartbreak is the latest offering from Cathy Kelly, author of ten consecutive bestsellers. During its first week of release in Australia Lessons in Heartbreak shot straight to number three. Undoubtedly, the merits of Kelly’s previous books have influenced the sales of this current release; readers are creatures of habit, after all. But one wonders whether Lessons would have been a bestseller if it had been Kelly’s first offering, instead of tenth.

Rules for Saying Goodbye - Katherine Taylor

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Don’t discount this novel as just another chick lit story. Rules for Saying Goodbye, by Katherine Taylor, is a heartfelt novel that follows the pain and pleasure of growing up. Katherine Taylor (the fictional one) is shipped off the boarding school at age 11 from the sweltering small town oppression of Fresno, California to a Massachussett prep school.

We Are Family - An afternoon in the grass with writer Charlotte Wood

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Charlotte Wood is seated cross-legged on Riley Oval at the University of WA, trying desperately to talk above the screams of a young girl throwing a tantrum. UWA is hosting the third day of The Perth Writer's Festival, which is also Family Day. This means that children running a muck, giant pencils and some sword fighting are all adding to the stress of the festival staff.

The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel by Maureen Lindley

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The success of Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha caused many other novelists to jump on the Japanese Geisha bandwagon, which is rather overcrowded today. But Maureen Lindley’s debut novel The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel is a breath of fresh air. In many of these stories themes of unrequited love and strict adherence to social etiquette resonate and this latest offering is no exception. But Eastern Jewel's journey is a not-so-typical one, largely due to her unquenchable thirst for life and stubborn nature. Reviewed by Izabella Rekiel.

Me, Myself and Prague by Rachel Weiss

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Abandoning a life in Sydney for something more bohemian seems like the ideal lifestyle choice to Rachel Weiss, who is single, unhappy with her job and unsure of herself. Fuelled by the desire to discover the homeland of her father, Rachel heads off to Prague to stay in her families vacant flat. Upon arriving, however, she discovers that the bohemian life is not so romantic after all, and a change of place won’t always be followed by a change of heart. Reviewed by Jessica Carter.

On Chesil Beach

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Ian McEwan, author of bestselling novel Atonement, weaves a poignant tale of two young people ensnared within the confines of marriage, social norms and their own fears. Edward and Florence start married life in the honeymoon suite of a beautiful hotel upon Chesil Beach. They look across the English Channel contemplating the rest of their lives. Marriage has enveloped them, yet individual worries and expectations rise - morphing and strangely misshaping what should have been, on paper, a perfect union. Reviewed by Patricia Nelson.

Daddy’s Little Earner by Maria Landon

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While there’s no such thing as the perfect childhood it’s safe to say that Maria Landon had it a hell of a lot tougher than most. From an early age she and her siblings were sorely neglected by her parents, a party-going couple who, instead of providing their children with regular meals or clean clothing, preferred to drink away their every last cent. Reviewed by Dawn Dawson.

After Dark by Haruki Murakami

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“Time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night,” a bartender in After Dark declares. “You can’t fight it.” This is an accepted truth in Haruki Murakami’s most recent novel After Dark. The book looks at two sisters who are pulled into strange events that unfold in the world of night. Eri and Mari are complete opposites. Eri, an aspiring model, is stuck in a state of endless slumber whilst Mari, a uni student, battles her insomnia and whittles away the night hours in a 24 hour restaurant.

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You can't always get what you want. But if you try, it might just be funny.

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A profile of fiction and children's author Tony Wilson.

I Think of You by Ahdaf Soueif

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In this collection of short stories Soueif’s often melancholy and frequently bittersweet prose revolves around clashes of culture and lost love. Every story centres on a female character and each of these suffer from a strong sense of loneliness or estrangement, despite their different homelands, problems and experiences. The tales are predominately set in Egypt or the United Kingdom, the sights and smells of Cairo coming alive through Soueif’s lyrical style. Reviewed by Dominique Kane.

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Finding Nino by Marc Llewellyn

Murder on the Apricot Coast by Marion Halligan

Friday Nights by Joanna Trollope

Lessons in Heartbreak by Cathy Kelly

Rules for Saying Goodbye - Katherine Taylor

We Are Family - An afternoon in the grass with writer Charlotte Wood

The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel by Maureen Lindley

Me, Myself and Prague by Rachel Weiss

On Chesil Beach

Daddy’s Little Earner by Maria Landon

After Dark by Haruki Murakami

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I Think of You by Ahdaf Soueif