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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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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naomilisashippen
- Jan 26, 2022
- 2 min
In Moonland - Book Review
In Moonland tells the story of three generations, ranging from 1970s Australia until the not-too-distant future. The story is told in...
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naomilisashippen
- Jan 9, 2022
- 1 min
Goodreads Book Reviews
I am an avid reader and enjoy novels from a variety of different genres, including, crime, literary fiction and memoir. As an active...
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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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