Another COVID Break Up - oranges journal, June 2022
Women over 50 are amongst the fastest growing cohort of the homeless, and when COVID hit, I thought I would be one of them. Follow the...
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naomilisashippen
- Sep 3
- 2 min
Ten Thousand Aftershocks - Book Review
This time last year, Ten Thousand Aftershocks by my writer friend, Michelle Tom, made its stunning debut. A memoir about a family as...
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naomilisashippen
- Aug 27
- 1 min
Queen Menopause: Finding your majesty in the mayhem
In Queen Menopause: Finding Your Majesty in the Mayhem, Alison Daddo gives an intimate and honest account of her journey through...
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naomilisashippen
- Aug 22
- 2 min
The Wrong Woman - Book Review
Former cop turned private detective, Vince Reid, returns to his hometown to investigate a car crash for the insurance company who hired...
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naomilisashippen
- Aug 19
- 1 min
The Wife and The Widow - Book Review
The Wife and the Widow is intriguing from the start. With a haunting setting and fascinating but relatable characters, the story follows...
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naomilisashippen
- Aug 13
- 2 min
Blackbirch: The Ritual - Book Review
***This review contains spoilers*** I was privileged to be given an advance copy of the third book in this magickal series. K.M. Allan...
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naomilisashippen
- Jul 31
- 2 min
Denizen - Book Review
Denizen is the startling debut novel by award-winning author, James McKenzie Watson. Beautifully written, stark and raw, there were...
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naomilisashippen
- Jul 24
- 3 min
The Brink - Book Review
When the party of a lifetime goes wrong, a group of school leavers will never be the same again. Thanks to Text Publishing for giving me...
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naomilisashippen
- Jun 28
- 4 min
The Holiday is Over But the Journey Has Just Begun.
March 2021 This time last year, my then husband and I set off on a trip to Japan. It was March 13th, 2020, and there was talk of shutting...
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naomilisashippen
- Jun 27
- 4 min
Writer in Motion
November 2019 A few years ago, I participated in the Writer in Motion Blog Project. Over the course of a month, writers worked together...
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naomilisashippen
- Jun 26
- 2 min
Book Review - How to Be Australian: An Outsider's View on Life and Love Down Under
The sub-zero temperatures of her native Canada prompted Ashley Kalagian Blunt and her husband to seek out the warmer climes of Sydney,...
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naomilisashippen
- Jun 12
- 2 min
My Heart is a Little Wild Thing - Book Review
Teenaged Patrick is growing up in the 1980s, under the shadow of the deadly virus, AIDS, and the knowledge that revealing his true self...
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naomilisashippen
- Jun 4
- 1 min
Release by Lucy Chrisopher - Book Review
Living under an assumed name half a world away, former kidnap victim, Kate Stone, remains under the spell of her former captor, and the...
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naomilisashippen
- Jun 1
- 1 min
Life in a Time of Corona
In 2020 I was thrilled to have several of my short stories included in this eclectic anthology, published during the first wave of the...
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naomilisashippen
- May 15
- 2 min
My Dark Vanessa - Book Review
*** This Review Contains Spoilers*** Thirty-something Vanessa Wye lives in the shadow of her doomed love affair with English teacher,...
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naomilisashippen
- Apr 30
- 2 min
Invisible Boys by Holden Sheppard - Book Reveiw
Set in Western Australia, Invisible Boys is about an unlikely alliance between three teenage boys who seem to have nothing in common,...
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naomilisashippen
- Apr 17
- 1 min
Book Review - The Burnished Sun
This brilliant collection of short stories covers a diverse range of characters across time, place, and culture. From a teenage...
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naomilisashippen
- Apr 2
- 2 min
Book Review - The Tea Ladies of St Jude's Hospital
Hilary Halliday’s life of luxury ends abruptly when her entrepreneurial husband bankrupts them thanks to some very ill-advised business...
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naomilisashippen
- Feb 20
- 1 min
The Torrent - Book Review
It would be very easy for Detective Sergeant Kate Miles to ignore the doubts that haunt her, and rubber stamp the closed case she’s been...
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naomilisashippen
- Feb 5
- 2 min
After Story by Larissa Behrendt - Book Review
Told over the course of a 10-day literary tour of England, After Story centres on the difficult relationship between a First Nations...
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Life in the Time of Corona
In 2020 I was thrilled to have several of my short stories included in this eclectic anthology, published during the first wave of the pandemic. From a tech billionaire, to an Uber driver to child stuck at home on school holidays, "Life in the Time of Corona" explores how everyone has been touched by the global pandemic.
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