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Jennifer Cameron-Smith
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Reader, cross-stitcher, quilter, and grower of roses :-)
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Publication date: 3 March 2026
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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of Shellybanks
4/5: In this novel, Kate Delaney is trying to come to terms with the trauma she experienced in ‘Pheasant’s Nest’. She and her partner Liam have taken time off from their jobs in Melbourne and have tra...
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January 31, 2026 at 3:18 AM
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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of The Red House
4/5: ‘When I heard police had killed an Aboriginal man in a remote community in the Northern Territory, I knew the country could be changed by what happened next.’ Reading this book is challenging. T...
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January 18, 2026 at 2:54 AM
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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of Inside Out
4/5: Those of us who have had little direct involvement with the Australian justice system like to think that it works effectively. It makes us feel more secure to think that only the guilty are puni...
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January 9, 2026 at 12:31 AM
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Challenging and thought provoking. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of In the Name of the Trees
4/5: ‘In the name of the trees, I retrieve you from hurt and sickness.’ This story is woven around four generations of Filipina women. Each of the women is named after a hardwood tree: Banaba, Narra,...
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January 5, 2026 at 2:18 AM
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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of Beautiful Changelings
4/5: The Oxford Dictionary tells me that a changeling is a child believed to have been secretly substituted by fairies for the parents' real child in infancy. In the titular poem, Maxine Beneba Clarke...
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December 24, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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December 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Publication date: 30/12/2025
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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of On the Edge
4/5: Everyone knows everyone in small towns and people have long memories. Nel Foley knows this, and she fled the (fictional) New South Wales coastal town of Carrinya as soon as she could after the de...
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December 19, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of Franz Josef (Nick Chester, #3)
4/5: ‘I’ve got a gutted body in the fridge in the local supermarket and a possible killer on the loose in this tiny town cut off by floods and landslides.’ In Mr Carter’s novel, the town of Franz Jos...
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December 17, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of Empire of AI
4/5: When I picked up this book, I was unaware that the focus was on the company called OpenAI and its leader Sam Altman. I was expecting more general coverage of the development, benefits and pitfall...
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December 17, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of Lost (Detective Bonnie Hunter Thrillers Book 2)
4/5: ‘Where was she?’ This is the second novel in Ms Lee’s Detective Bonnie Hunter series. The story opens on Mothers’ Day, always a difficult day for Bonnie. She’s travelled to the New South Wales S...
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December 15, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of The Thirty-One Legs of Vladimir Putin
4/5: ‘Out here at the back of the breakers where there are no mirrors, or people who feel they can comment on my looks, I can forget my resemblance to Russia’s president.’ Dave McDermott is one of si...
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December 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of Ankami
5/5: Learning about family history can be challenging because of incomplete records, inaccurate memories and (sometimes) a conscious decision to bury aspects of the past. From records obtained through...
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December 13, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of The Transformations
4/5: George Desoulis feels at home as a subeditor at the National, a fictional broadsheet newspaper located in Darlinghurst, Sydney. But change is coming. The novel opens with two of George’s colleagu...
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November 22, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of If the Dead Belong Here
4/5: ‘The intruders enter as quiet as light.’ The novel opens in J1996 in Jordan, Wisconsin. Six-year-old Laurel Taylor is missing. Her older sister Nadine feels her absence before becoming fully awa...
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November 22, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Fascinating. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of Crimson Velvet Heart
4/5: ‘The tale begins in the city of Turin, one hundred miles west of Milan.’ Princess Marie-Adélaïde of Savoy is born in Turin in 1685. In 1696, Louis XIV of France, the ageing Sun King, has Marie-A...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of Buckeye
5/5: Set in the small Ohio town of Bonhomie, this novel spans much of the twentieth century and focusses on the lives of two married couples: Cal and Becky Jenkins and Felix and Margaret Salt. Cal, bo...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of A Great Act of Love
4/5: ‘If you go, you must invent a new story.’ In 1839, Caroline Douglas arrives in Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania since 1856). She has a young boy in her care, and the means to establish herself. She a...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Publication date: 18 November 2025
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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of Outlaw Planet
5/5: ‘This is her story. It’s the story of the gun she carried, whose name is Wakeful Slim. It’s the story of the dead man who carried that gun before her and left a piece of him inside it.’ I am not...
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November 7, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of The Farm
4/5: Leila Haddad and her partner James Crawley are devastated when Leila’s pregnancy ends in early miscarriage. Additionally, Leila requires surgery for a complex gynaecological condition and her rec...
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November 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Some roses in my garden
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October 30, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of China Room
4/5: As is frequently the case, I was led to this novel by one of my Chief Reading Enablers, Lisa. I was intrigued by Lisa’s review, which can be found here: China Room (2021) by Sunjeev Sahota | ANZ...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Today's roses.
October 28, 2025 at 1:19 AM