Sunshine Coast Hinterland Times

Making signs at baby…

Mooloolah Valley authors Ian Creaser and Lisa Baade have spent 13 years making signs at babies and children. Now, they have published a “how to” guide of sign language for children. This slim volume is highly visual and reveals that babies can interpret and understand what their parents are saying long before their vocal chords [...]

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Bald Knob re-visited

Doctor Jean Elder’s popular book, Bald Knob: A Familiar Landscape went out of print almost as soon as it was first published nine years ago. It remains the only local history to document the changes from aboriginal times to the year 2000, and to describe how the community adapted to the changes. The book is lavishly [...]

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Book Bites with Anne Brown of Rosetta Books

Bloodhound The long awaited second novel in Tamora Pierce’s ‘The Provost Dog’ Trilogy is finally here. In ‘Terrier’, the first novel in ‘The Provost Dog’ Trilogy, we meet Beka Cooper, a trainee cop, or ‘puppy’. Beka is special: she can talk to ghosts and along with her street skills, Beka is able to gather all the [...]

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Book Bites with Anne Brown

Garden of a Lifetime Dame Elizabeth Murdoch at Cruden Farm Anne Latreille This beautiful book by garden writer Anne Latreille provides us not only with a detailed and exquisitely photographed depiction of one of Australia’s best known gardens, but also with a fascinating biography of its owner, Dame Elizabeth Murdoch. The book’s title is most apt, as Elizabeth Murdoch, [...]

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This Teaching Life

With a dozen years of teaching writing life stories under her belt, Lesley Synge reflects on the challenges. Lesley lived in Maleny from 1986-2003. She now lives in Brisbane and reviews memoirs and biographies for the Courier-Mail. She has crossed memoir with poetry in ‘Mountains Belong to the People who Love Them’, and ‘Organic Sister’, and [...]

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Book launch success for local artist

Alan Hardy (above left), son of author Frank Hardy congratulates Maleny artist Peter Hudson (below left) on continuing the support his father began for the Gurinji aborigines in the 1960s. Peter was well supported when he launched his book, “From  Little Things, Big Things Grow” at Maleny Artworks. Noel Gardner (top right) sang the famous [...]

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New Hinterland Times Website

Welcome to the new Hinterland Times Website!  We are currently loading content at a furious pace so keep us bookmarked to check out all of the hinterland happenings online. In time we will have the full magazine online including News, Features, Classifieds, Events and Entertainment - along with a few special features designed specifically for the [...]

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