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A Wasted Life: An interview with Elspeth Muir

May 30, 2016by angusdalton Leave a comment

Think of the typical problem drinker, and we usually imagine alcoholics, drink-drivers, underage drinkers and the perpetrators of one-punch attacks. The brother of Brisbane writer ELSPETH MUIR was none of these […]

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Snakes, Scorpions and Komodo Dragons: Our Q&A with the Venom Doc

October 8, 2015by goodreadingmagazine Leave a comment

Dr. Bryan Grieg Fry holds a PhD in taipan toxins and is a world-renowned expert on venomous animals, after years of global research in some of the most extreme environments on Earth, […]

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Top Review: The Shepherd’s Life

August 28, 2015by goodreadingmagazine Leave a comment

The Shepherd’s Life: A tale of the Lake District by James Rebanks Wordsworth may have given us the romantic and poetic view of England’s Lake District; Wainwright wrote the walkers’ […]

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Robbed by the Nazis: Our Q&A with Simon Goodman

August 14, 2015by goodreadingmagazine Leave a comment

Simon Goodman’s grandparents, the Gutmanns, perished while imprisoned in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. The pair had worked as successful bankers throughout their lives and became very wealthy. As lovers […]

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The Boatman: A Q&A with John Burbidge

July 1, 2015by goodreadingmagazine 1 Comment

Last week, history was made when the US Supreme Court finally delivered what the vast majority of society has been demanding for decades: the right for same-sex couples to be allowed […]

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From the Editor: A life lived in darkness

May 20, 2015by goodreadingmagazine Leave a comment

Editor of gr Rowena Morcom ruminates on Girl in the Dark, the incredible memoir of a woman allergic to light. See below for a chance to win a copy from Bloomsbury.  Imagine not […]

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Top Review – Hand to Mouth: The truth about being poor in a wealthy world

April 30, 2015by goodreadingmagazine Leave a comment

In our April issue, gr‘s deputy editor Tim Graham reviewed Hand to Mouth by Linda Tirago. She’s a fiery author who experienced first-hand the prejudices and hardships lower-class Americans are subjected to […]

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The Naked Memoirist: Interview with Oliver Mol

April 30, 2015by goodreadingmagazine Leave a comment

Sydney-based creative non-fiction writer OLIVER MOL won the Scribe Non-fiction Prize for Young Writers for his piece called ’34 Memories From Growing Up in Texas’. These mini-stories are scattered throughout Lion Attack!, […]

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Q&A with memoir extraordinaire Patti Miller

April 9, 2015by goodreadingmagazine Leave a comment

Patti Miller is an award-winning novelist and memoir mentor. Her new book Ransacking Paris is an evocative and deftly written memoir of her one-year escape to Paris, a vastly different […]

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