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Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe

  • Marion and the Forty Thieves – Sarah Luke

    NLA July 2024 I grew up in Sydney and I was a kid with a thirst for history, particularly of my home town. I loved my excursions to the Rocks and being taken into the city on outings with my father, also a history tragic. Yet I knew nothing of the reformatories set up for…

  • Ming & Flo Fight for the Future: (The Girls Who Changed the World #1) – Jackie French

    Harper Collins March 2022 A brand new series from Jackie French is always cause for great excitement, and this one is going to be a corker, given this fabulous start! We have all been awed by Jackie’s wealth of historical novels and her indomitable female characters over the years. Now younger readers have the opportunity…

  • The Tram to Bondi Beach [40th anniversary edition] – Libby Hathorn. Illustrated by Julie Vivas.

    Harper Collins Australia January 2021 ISBN: 9781460759660 ISBN 10: 1460759664 Imprint: HarperCollins – AU List Price: 24.99 AUD The one problem with book anniversaries is just how old it makes one feel! The amazing creative partnership of these two literary talents resulted in the CBCA Highly Commended Picture Book award for 1982 and forty years after publication it is…

  • To the Bridge – Corinne Fenton. Illustrated by Andrew McLean

    Walker Books Australia April 2020 ISBN: 9781925126822 Imprint: Walker Books Australia Australian RRP: $26.99 New Zealand RRP: $29.99 If ever there was a story to inspire kids to follow their dreams this surely has to be one that is right up there with the best. In our modern world it seems completely unbelievable that a nine-year-old boy and his…

  • Sweet Adversity – Sheryl Gwyther

       TBC Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd ISBN: 9781460755105 ISBN-10: 1460755103 RRP : $17.99   In her new historical novel Sheryl Gwyther takes  readers on a dramatic, sometimes tense and often poignant adventure to a grim time in Australia’s past – the Great Depression. While the Wall St collapse impacted all around the world, Australia suffered terribly…