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March | 2016 | Catherine Hanrahan
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Writer, blogger, journalist. Monthly Archives: March 2016. March 14, 2016. The Grass Sister – Gillian Mears. Gillian Mears is one of my favourite authors. She has written just a handful of novels. Her first, The Mint Lawn, won the Vogel award in 1990 and is one of …. About Reading To Write. Australian Women Writers Challenge. The Luminaries – Eleanor Caton. If I knew you were going to be this beautiful, I never would have let you go – Judy Chicurel. The First Stone – Helen Garner. Follow Blog via Email.
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Writer, blogger, journalist. November 21, 2015. Bodily Harm – Margaret Atwood. A spare moment to return to my much neglected blog. I read Bodily Harm quite a while ago but just have not had time to blog a review. I’m …. October 3, 2015. All That Is – James Salter. This is the first of US writer James Salter’s books I’ve read, and his first novel in 30 years, and also his last. He died earlier this year. This is …. September 16, 2015. My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante. August 18, 2015. August 12, 2015.
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The Grass Sister – Gillian Mears | Catherine Hanrahan
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Writer, blogger, journalist. March 14, 2016. The Grass Sister – Gillian Mears. Gillian Mears is one of my favourite authors. She has written just a handful of novels. Her first,. The Mint Lawn,. Won the Vogel award in 1990 and is one of my favourites, along with. Winner of the Prime Minister’s literary award in 2012. She writes about rural life in the northern rivers of NSW (she grew up in Grafton) but the real focus of her fiction is on family interactions, particularly with mothers, and sisters. My Rea...
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Forever Young – Steven Carroll | Catherine Hanrahan
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Writer, blogger, journalist. February 15, 2016. Forever Young – Steven Carroll. One of the best books I read last year was ‘. A World of Other People. 8216; by Stephen Carroll. Forever Young is the fifth of his Glenroy series, a collection of stand-alone stories that follow suburban couple Vic and Rita through much of Australian twentieth century history. That he was determined not to write social realism, of which he says its time has passed. Social realism is what I read and write and so perhaps th...
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The Grass Sister – Gillian Mears | Catherine Hanrahan
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Writer, blogger, journalist. March 14, 2016. The Grass Sister – Gillian Mears. Gillian Mears is one of my favourite authors. She has written just a handful of novels. Her first,. The Mint Lawn,. Won the Vogel award in 1990 and is one of my favourites, along with. Winner of the Prime Minister’s literary award in 2012. She writes about rural life in the northern rivers of NSW (she grew up in Grafton) but the real focus of her fiction is on family interactions, particularly with mothers, and sisters. My Rea...
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Book Reviews and News. 2016 Australian Women Writers Challenge. 2016 Eclectic Reader Challenge. 2016 Nonfiction Reading Challenge. The Eclectic Reader Challenge 2015. Australian Women Writers Challenge 2015. Around the World in 12 Books Challenge 2015. Aussie Author Challenge 2015. What’s in a Name Challenge 2015. Eclectic Reader Challenge 2013. Australian Women Writers Challenge 2013. Aussie Author Challenge 2013. Australian Women Writers Challenge 2014. Eclectic Reader Challenge 2014. Select, read and ...
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My Sydney Writers’ Festival | Catherine Hanrahan
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Writer, blogger, journalist. May 28, 2015. My Sydney Writers’ Festival. I look forward to the Sydney Writers’ Festival every year, eagerly scanning the program for my favourite writers and the topics that hook me. For me, the festival is about two things – learning more about the world I live in, and understanding how writers write. One of my all-time favourite authors, spoke about why she chose to write her new book, The House of Grief,. The author of Hack Attack: How the truth caught up with Rupert Mur...
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The Secret Keeper – Kate Morton | Catherine Hanrahan
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Writer, blogger, journalist. November 25, 2014. The Secret Keeper – Kate Morton. On a summer day in 1961, 16 year old Laurel Nicholson is sitting in her treehouse at her family’s Suffolk cottage when a strange man comes up the driveway. His appearance has a dramatic effect on Laurel’s mother Dorothy, who stabs him to death. The ensuing police investigation finds that Dorothy was acting in self-defence and no further action is taken. But where this book completely fails in my opinion, and why I didn’...
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April | 2016 | Catherine Hanrahan
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Writer, blogger, journalist. Monthly Archives: April 2016. April 4, 2016. The First Stone – Helen Garner. I am a long-time fan of Helen Garner so it is perhaps surprising that it has taken me so long to read The First Stone, published in 1995. But the truth …. About Reading To Write. Australian Women Writers Challenge. The Luminaries – Eleanor Caton. If I knew you were going to be this beautiful, I never would have let you go – Judy Chicurel. The First Stone – Helen Garner. Follow Blog via Email. Sydney&...
