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Book Bites with Anne Brown of Rosetta Books

6. March 2010

When You Reach Me Rebecca Stead Miranda’s world is turning upside down: her best friend Sal gets punched by a new kid for no reason and he shuts her out of his life; her mother wants to become a contestant on a TV game show; and the apartment key they keep hidden for emergencies is stolen. [...]

Explaining acts of God

6. March 2010

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Book Reviews: Michael Berry ON A RECENT television news bulletin a distraught resident of Port au Prince in Haiti faced the camera to declare that, “I have lost my wife and my children. I only have God now”. The horrific earthquake in Haiti and the 2004 tsunami that devastated coastlines to our north, are only two natural [...]

The Rebel Priest Father: Peter Kennedy

6. March 2010

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BRISBANE CATHOLIC Priest Peter Kennedy was sacked by his Archbishop for contravening aspects of Catholic doctrine in February 2009. This was a crisis that had been brewing for several years and was as much about Peter’s shedding of Church formalities as it was about his personal struggles with the relevance of a heavily doctrinal church. Kennedy was [...]

Book Bites

3. February 2010

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With Anne Brown of Rosetta Books THE LOVELY BONES ALICE SEBOLD When fourteen year old Susie Salmon is brutally attacked and murdered by her neighbour, she enters her version of heaven which happens to look very similar to her school playground, complete with other kids to talk to and guidance counsellors to help newcomers. However Susie [...]

Blackall Range book team captures the magic

3. February 2010

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THE HINTERLAND Business Centre will next month launch an inspirational 240 page full colour book showcasing the diverse hinterland region of the Sunshine Coast. The book is titled Earth Dreams Magic: A Journey through the Blackall Range, and it’s the first time that a commercial picture book has been drawn together about the Sunshine Coast [...]

Steven’s diary of the Mary River

3. February 2010

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HINTERLAND AUTHOR, Steven Lang this month launches his published book, “a strong brown god - the mary river diary”. To research and write this book, Steven chose to walk the length of the Mary River from its source in Maleny to the coast at Maryborough. Along the way he was both confronted and delighted with [...]

Hudson’s Kennedy Portrait

12. January 2010

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Maleny painter Peter Hudson has produced a striking portrait of Peter Kennedy on the cover of a new book that examines the controversy around this outspoken Brisbane priest. Kennedy was sacked late in 2009 by his archbishop for contravening aspects of Catholic doctrine. Peter Hudson’s pastel portrait of Kennedy so impressed the One Day Hill publishers [...]

Steven’s Strong Brown God

12. January 2010

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In 1992 Maleny author Steven Lang followed the route taken by the first official white men along the length of the Mary River. Travelling alone and on foot, Steven started from the river’s source near Maleny, and ended his journey where it reaches the sea at Maryborough. A Strong Brown God is Steven’s illustrated personal [...]

THE ORMOLU CLOCK

12. January 2010

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Fiction MARGE was dozing when she heard the sound. It was Sunday and she should have been at church. Instead a vicious bout of ‘flu had confined her to bed. She heard it again: an alien sound. ‘Who’s there?’ she called out, her usually robust voice reduced to a croak. Silence. ‘Is anybody there?’ Nothing. She waited a while then struggled out [...]

Nambour novelist goes world-wide

2. December 2009

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A NEW NOVEL set in the Sunshine Coast hinterland has been published by Nambour writer Andrew Thelander. ‘Last Birds’ takes readers on a bizarre adventure through such places as Cooran, Pomona, Tewantin and Noosa. Andrew told the Hinterland Times that he used Teutoberg - Witta’s original name - for much [...]

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