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by Daniel Stepniak · Published 20 August 2018 · Last modified 4 October 2023
Reading Time: 3 minutes In her book, ‘Eggshell Skull’, Bri Lee offers something of interest to readers with divergent interests. Those fascinated by courtroom drama will undoubtedly find the book impossible to put down, as Bri...
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by Daniel Stepniak · Published 15 August 2018 · Last modified 4 October 2023
Reading Time: 4 minutes IAN McEWAN’S ‘ON CHESIL BEACH’ BOOK ADAPTED TO FILM ‘On Chesil Beach’ was published in 2007. Ian McEwan’s 166 page novelette (short enough to be read in one long sitting or over a...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 12 August 2018 · Last modified 2 April 2019
Reading Time: 10 minutes THE KILLING OF MANMEET ALISHER: AVOIDABLE OR INEVITABLE? In late 2016, Manmeet Alisher, a young Brisbane singer/bus-driver was killed by Francis O’Donohue, a passenger who due to his Chronic...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 9 August 2018 · Last modified 28 March 2019
Reading Time: 2 minutes ‘The Wife’ is a film based the book of the same name by Meg Wolitzer. I would be very surprised if it proved to be a smashing box office success as it is anything...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 9 August 2018 · Last modified 4 October 2023
Reading Time: 3 minutes Prior to picking up this book I had no idea that Tony Jones, the journalist best known as the host of the often controversial ABC current affairs program QandA, was also a writer of...
by Daniel Stepniak · Published 1 August 2018 · Last modified 19 April 2019
Reading Time: 3 minutes Catholic Church and community leaders urge us to acknowledge the good work of Archbishop Wilson, rather than just remember him for concealing the sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy in the 1970s. Is...
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