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A compelling debut novel from Amanda Ortlepp that canvases the ethical complexities of embryo donation but delves deeply into the question of what it means to be a mother.
In this age of email and text message, it’s lovely to receive something in the post that isn’t a bill. It’s more lovely when that thing is a parcel. It’s even lovelier still when the parcel contains a beautiful book which has one of YOUR short stories published in it. I first started writing ‘Glory Season’ three years ago. The…
I used to know Sal as the school friend who would read Mr Bain’s notes off the blackboard for me in economics (Thanks Sal. Without you I would never known my own blindness, or what GDP meant!) But these days, Sal is setting the world alight as a writer, with a special talent for coming up with funny, pithy slogans.…
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You think being a published author is a dream come true? Read this collection of four, hilarious, memoir-style essays from Liam Pieper, and think again.
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The prose is magical, the plot is enrapturing and the structure is brilliant. ‘All the Light We Cannot See’ is, in a word, flawless. A deserved winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
Here it is! Book Birdy’s list of recommended books for your mum this mother’s day.
I guarantee, there’s something here for every mum. So, get yourself to a bookshop and enjoy some browsing time, or buy on-line without leaving your couch. It’s up to you..
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Australian story-tellers share their experiences of motherhood in a beautiful collection about love and loss, and all that it means when a woman becomes ‘mum’.
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With confidence, bordering on audacity, Knox knits together plot and language to produce a truly extraordinary, literary technicolour dreamcoat.
So, here’s a cute gift idea for young families this mother’s day. Instead of soap, or chocolates, how about a picture book that celebrates ‘mother-love’? This is why I call a ‘win-win’ gift – a child gets the benefit of adding a new book to their shelves, while the mum gets to read a story to them about how wonderful…
We are in for a guilt-free treat! Josephine Moon is the Queensland author of two thoroughly delectable works of ‘foodie fiction’. I described her latest release, ‘The Chocolate Promise’, as the literary equivalent of a nourishing, heart-warming cup of tea – which, funnily enough, was the focus of her first novel, ‘The Tea Chest.’ In this interview, Josephine talks to Book Birdy…