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13 June 2025

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Book Club

 

Book Club – This Month's Reads

Looking for your next great group read? Our monthly Book Club rounds up new release titles that are perfect for sparking conversation and perhaps even some debate. From compelling fiction... Read more
 
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Bestsellers

the cover of Melaleuca by Angie Faye Martin

 

Ardern, Reid debut in top 10, Melaleuca tops heat-seekers x

Top 10 bestsellers Cozy Corner (Coco Wyo, Penguin) The Let Them Theory (Mel Robbins & Sawyer Robbins, Hay House) Cozy Cuties (Coco Wyo, Penguin) A Different Kind of Power (Jacinda... Read more
 
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Books in the media

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Books in the media this weekend, 14–15 June x

A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend.  National The Saturday Paper The Death of Stalin (Sheila Fitzpatrick, Black Inc.) Inconvenient Women (Jacqueline Kent,... Read more
 

Unlocked reviews: New-release nonfiction

 

Bombard the Headquarters! The Cultural Revolution in China
Linda Jaivin, Black Inc., June 2025, reviewed by Michael Kitson x

Chairman Mao’s decade of terror is the subject of Bombard the Headquarters!, Australian sinologist Linda Jaivin’s excellent primer on China’s Cultural Revolution. In 1966, Peking University’s Nie Yuanzi created a... Read more

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Terraglossia
Debra Dank, Echo, June 2025, reviewed by Eman Mourad x

Debra Dank, a Gudanji/Wakaja and Kalkadoon woman from the Barkly Tablelands in the Northern Territory and critically acclaimed author of We Come with This Place, returns with her powerful new... Read more

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When Nothing Feels Real
Nathan Dunne, Murdoch, June 2025, reviewed by Becca Whitehead x

When Nothing Feels Real is a raw and immersive first-person account of journalist Nathan Dunne’s experience of depersonalisation. It begins with a moment – a dive into cold water –... Read more

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