Heads up! You can use your brain to make you happy and use your body to decrease your risk of dementia by 32 per cent. This is not New Age nonsense. It’s the word on the street from award-winning university professor and world-renowned neuroscientist Dr Wendy Suzuki. I bookmarked so many bits of Suzuki’s new
Claire Varley’s debut novel The Bit In Between is a contemporary love story about Oliver and Alison, two young Australians who land in the Solomon Islands searching for purpose and belonging. Oliver is writing his second novel and Alison gets involved in supporting the local indigenous women. As Oliver’s novel takes shape, coincidences start to
When the winners of the Griffith Review’s Novella Project III were announced recently it dawned on me I’d forgotten to review The Novella Project II. Doh! I don’t know how it slipped off my list. Here’s a taster to entice you online to purchase Forgotten Stories: The Novella Project II. You should also mark your
This sonorous collection had me switched on from London to Singapore while all the other cattle-class travellers snoozed dopily into the wee hours. What a superb book of short stories—and one I found particularly delightful due to its absence of tricks. The tonal similarity of the stories appealed to me. Meaning: If there is such
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