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McGregor,
Fiona
McInnes,
William and
Watt, Sarah
Moorhouse,
Frank
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59 year old Marie King has grown accustomed to life on
Sydney's affluent North Shore. But now she's divorced from
her husband and her kids have moved out. Her separation
from her husband leaves her directionless and financially
stretched, and the family house needs to be sold.
Marie ends up in a bar in Kings Cross, and on a drunken
whim she walks into a tattoo parlour and gets a tattoo.
Maria's first encounter with the tattoo experience is the
beginning of a liberation that will lead to a reconsideration
of the meaning of family, of affluence, of the very meaning
of being a woman in contemporary Australian society.
New book
Worse things happen at sea
Australian actor William McInnes and his wife, filmmaker
and animator Sarah Watts, speak about their relationship
and family life in their latest book, Worse Things Happen at
Sea.
In the face of a number of challenges, they both have a
remarkable ability to find joy and humour in daily life.
New book
Grand days
Moorhouse takes a stab at historical fiction with brilliant
results. The basic story: the education of a young Australian
woman at the League of Nations in Geneva in the 1920s,
barely hints at all the strange, insightful, and moving places
the novel goes. This is a story about idealism and corruption,
both personal and on the world stage, that it unlike anything
else you've read. It's long and it's very very smart, still the
fact that it's not better known and acclaimed is very
puzzling.
New book
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