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Category Archives: Fantasy
2013 Aurealis Awards Finalists
From over 800 entries, Aurealis has announced its 2013 awards finalists. The Aurealis Awards are Australia’s premier speculative fiction awards. Continue reading
Get Reading! 2013 is here
Australia’s largest celebration of books and reading, Get Reading! is back in 2013 with the ultimate guides to the best Australian reads. Along with the traditional Top 50 Books You Can’t Put Down, in 2013 Get Reading! has collated a list of Australia’s Top 100 Favourite Homegrown Reads, exclusively voted for by subscribers, fans and friends of Get Reading!
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Parramatta City Library – Great Reads for May 2013
Last Thursday Book Group
The Story of Danny Dunn by Bryce Courtenay
A beautiful novel by the prolific Mr Courtenay.
A descriptive account of Balmain and Sydney during the 1930’s, 1940’s, right through to the seventies.
The characters are wonderfully depicted and true to the era of the Depression. Many readers shed a tear as memories of the past came back to them.
Danny Dunn’s character is that of many a young man who willingly went to war and after came back broken and found it hard to relate to a ‘normal’ world again.
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