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Losing the Plot by Annaleise Byrd

Title: Losing the Plot Author: Annaleise Byrd Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Walker Books Australia Published: 6th March 2024 Format: Paperback Pages: 144 Price: $16.99 Synopsis: A tremendous whooshing noise started up. It sounded like a million pages being riffled at once. I caught a strong whiff of gingerbread. Then The Complete Fairytales of the Brothers Grimm flew open and a… Continue reading Losing the Plot by Annaleise Byrd

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Completed: Dymocks Reading Challenge 2023

This year, I took on the Dymocks Reading Challenge again. This time, we got our prompts season by season, which made it more challenging to plan what to read, but in the end, I managed to do it. The prompts were fairly flexible as well – there were ones anything could fit into and ones… Continue reading Completed: Dymocks Reading Challenge 2023

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The Freedom of Birds by Stephanie Parkyn

Title: The Freedom of Birds Author: Stephanie Parkyn Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Allen and Unwin Published: 30th November 2021 Format: Paperback Pages: 432 Price: $32.99 Synopsis: Two French storytellers and a runaway girl travel through fairytale lands, Italian theatres, and the battlefields of France in search of a place to belong as Napoleon's Empire falls,… Continue reading The Freedom of Birds by Stephanie Parkyn