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Welcome to Consent by Yumi Stynes & Dr. Melissa Kang
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The Boy Who Stepped Through Time by Anna Ciddor
Finding Our Heart by Thomas Mayor & Blak Douglas
Cut to the Chase (Bad Guys, Episode 13) by Aaron Blabey
Me, Microbes and I by Philip Bunting
Mothering Heights (Dog Man, Book 10) by Dav Pilkey
Our top 10 bestsellers of the week
Animal by Lisa Taddeo
Who Gets to Be Smart by Bri Lee
One Hundred Days by Alice Pung
Mission Economy by Mariana Mazzucato
The Boy’s Club by Michael Warner
Real Estate by Deborah Levy
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Second Place by Rachel Cusk
The Yield by Tara June Winch
The Shortest History of China by Linda Jaivin
Our best-seller from the past week is Animal by Lisa Taddeo – the novel …
Nine virtual events to attend at Emerging Writers' Festival 2021
Calling all poets and wannabe poets! Book yourself into this intimate …
What we’re reading: Jackson, Taddeo & Myers
When I was first referred to a fertility specialist to start IVF, it was one of the most isolating moments of my life. I felt like a colossal fai…
The best new crime reads in June
Four months after 12-year-old Tippy Chan, her uncle Pike and his boyfriend Devon started The Nancys – an investigative team that solved the brutal murder of Tippy’s teacher – a new case blows up, quite literally, right nearby. Riverstone, Tippy’s New Zeala…
Recommended children’s books & news for June
Dr Melissa Kang and Yumi Styn…
On Events, with Chris Gordon
The other day I had my first COVID-19 immunisation jab. It was such a joy to be part of a collective initiative that contributes to everyone’s health. I interviewed an author online 12 hours later, despite feeling like I had been run over by a giant truck. ‘I am so sorry’, I said to the wonderful Jon Klassen, ‘I’m a little under the weather.’ ‘Oh’, he said from his Los Angeles studio, ‘me too. I …
A spotlight on The F Team by Rawah Arja
Recommended YA books & news for June
Eighteen-year-old Daunis’s mixed heritage has …
Book recommendations from the EWF programming team
I often read more than one thing at a time. Recently, both Body of …
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