Far From Harm Book Launch!
Join me for an afternoon of literature and day drinking to celebrate the launch of my debut novel, Far From Harm. When: Saturday, 29th...
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naomilisashippen
May 21, 20234 min read
On Debuting After 50 - Guest Post on Word Mothers
Word Mothers is a website dedicated to women writers, and I am honoured to have my Guest Post, On Debuting After 50, featured on their...
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naomilisashippen
Apr 3, 20231 min read
Book Review - Daughter of the Shadows
A young woman fighting for her faith and her freedom in a dangerous new world. ***Contains spoilers for those who have not read Book 1***...
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naomilisashippen
Mar 31, 20231 min read
Book Review - The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village
Delightful and genuinely funny, The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village is a great antidote to the way our society trivialises...
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naomilisashippen
Dec 8, 20222 min read
The Chameleon - Book Review
The Chameleon The Chameleon is a coming of age story about Rorke Wilde, growing up in 1970s Rhodesia in a time of tumultuous political...
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naomilisashippen
Oct 22, 20222 min read
How to Destroy Your Husband - Book Review
Cassandra Edwards is about to marry the love of her life, fellow schoolteacher, Jamie. Jamie is a kind, loving, thoughtful partner and...
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naomilisashippen
Sep 22, 20221 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20224 min read
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 26, 20222 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
Stories of life during a time of unpresented change.
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, 20222 min read
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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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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