Brona’s AusReading Challenge is happening this month. The main aim of this challenge is to read Australian fiction, non-fiction and poetry. I have a Nevil Shute title I’ve just started (Beyond the Black Stump) as well as a few other books I’m considering if I have time. Some others: No Moon Tonight by Don Charlwood … Continue reading AusReading Month 2022
Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner is a beloved Australian children’s classic that was first published in 1894 and has never been out of print since. So it with some trepidation and ducking of the head that I am going to say that I was fairly underwhelmed when I finally got around to reading it. … Continue reading AusReading Month: Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner (1894)
Ruth Park (1917-2010) was a prolific, multiple award-winning, New Zealand born Australian author. The author’s background in rural New Zealand and her later experience of the Great Depression while living in Sydney, gave her much to draw upon in her writing.Come Danger, Come Darkness is set on Norfolk Island, about 1,000 km off the east … Continue reading AusReading Month: Come Danger, Come Darkness by Ruth Park (1978)
Every November for the past five years, Brona’s Books has hosted an Australian reading challenge. This is my fourth year of joining in and it’s something I really look forward to. Brona has oodles of Aussie book suggestions if you need some ideas. I also have a page with links to various Aussie books, especially … Continue reading It’s that time of the year! The AusReading Month
Miles Off Course is the third book in Sulari Gentill’s Rowland Sinclair Novels set in Australia in the 1930’s. Rowland and his three Bohemian friends were enjoying the serenity of The Hydro Majestic in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, far from the scene of their previous troubles and misadventures (which you can read … Continue reading AusReading Month 2016: Miles Off Course by Sulari Gentill
This is the third year that I’ve particiapted in Brona’s Books November AusRead Month link-up – it’s not too late to join in. This year I’ll be focussing mostly on children’s books. November is our month long celebration of all things Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Join us as we read, review and blog about Australian books … Continue reading AusRead Month 2016: Magpie Island by Colin Thiele; Illustrated by Roger Haldane
Once a year, in November, Brona hosts an Australian book reading month. Join us as we read, review and blog about all things Australian – classic books, contemporary stories, children\’s books, poetry, non-fiction, short stories, popular, literary, award-winning – whatever. The only stipulation is that it has to be written by an Australian based author … Continue reading AusReading Month
Pilot Ronnie Clarke learns that Johnnie Pascoe, the man who had taught him to fly many years before, has crashed his plane while attempting to rescue a sick child from her isolated home on the rugged west coast of Tasmania. Pascoe is lying badly injured with only the child’s mother to nurse him. … Continue reading AusReading Month: The Rainbow and the Rose by Nevil Shute
Originally written as a monthly installment in 1870-1872 under the title His Natural Life, Marcus Clarke’s classic was later published as a book in 1874 with the title, For the Term of His Natural Life. Some of the characters and events in Clarke’s book are based upon real people and actual events which … Continue reading AusReading Month 2014 – For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke
Little Pago is an attractive and engaging picture book for children aged about 2 to 5 years written and illustrated by Lauren Briggs, an Australian mother of four. Published in 2021, the book highlights the problem of plastic pollution in the ocean, which presents a critical threat to our marine life. The author explains her … Continue reading Little Pago by Lauren Briggs
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