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A Family As Volatile As The Land They Live On
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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Sep 3, 20222 min read
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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...
naomilisashippen
Aug 27, 20221 min read
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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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Aug 22, 20222 min read
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The Truth Will Out.
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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Aug 19, 20221 min read
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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...
naomilisashippen
Aug 13, 20222 min read
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When Life Becomes A Waking Nightmare.
Denizen is the startling debut novel by award-winning author, James McKenzie Watson. Beautifully written, stark and raw, there were...
naomilisashippen
Jul 31, 20222 min read
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School's Out Forever.
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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Jul 24, 20223 min read
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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...
naomilisashippen
Jun 28, 20224 min read
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We're A Weird Mob.
The sub-zero temperatures of her native Canada prompted Ashley Kalagian Blunt and her husband to seek out the warmer climes of Sydney,...
naomilisashippen
Jun 26, 20222 min read
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The Heart Wants What the Heart Wants.
Teenaged Patrick is growing up in the 1980s, under the shadow of the deadly virus, AIDS, and the knowledge that revealing his true self...
naomilisashippen
Jun 12, 20222 min read
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When the Cage Has No Bars.
Living under an assumed name half a world away, former kidnap victim, Kate Stone, remains under the spell of her former captor, and the...
naomilisashippen
Jun 4, 20221 min read
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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...
naomilisashippen
Jun 1, 20221 min read
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A Love Too Special for the World to Understand?
*** This Review Contains Spoilers*** Thirty-something Vanessa Wye lives in the shadow of her doomed love affair with English teacher,...
naomilisashippen
May 15, 20222 min read
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Hiding in Plain Sight.
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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Apr 30, 20222 min read
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Insightful and Sublime.
This brilliant collection of short stories covers a diverse range of characters across time, place, and culture. From a teenage...
naomilisashippen
Apr 17, 20221 min read
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When Life Gives You Lemons.
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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Apr 2, 20222 min read
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An Extraordinary Everywoman.
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...
naomilisashippen
Feb 20, 20221 min read
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Living in the Aftermath of Unbearable Loss.
Told over the course of a 10-day literary tour of England, After Story centres on the difficult relationship between a First Nations...
naomilisashippen
Feb 5, 20222 min read
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Ending the Generational Curse.
In Moonland tells the story of three generations, ranging from 1970s Australia until the not-too-distant future. The story is told in...
naomilisashippen
Jan 26, 20222 min read
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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...
naomilisashippen
Jan 9, 20221 min read
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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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