Willow Willpower has big dreams. Ever since she can remember, she’s dreamt of flying high in the sky. When Willow’s mum takes her daughter to the local museum, Willow gets to know the aviation legend, Amelia Earhart. It soon becomes obvious to her: she wants to become a pilot like Amelia and travel around the world.Continue reading

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Renovations are hell. And that’s before you find the body beneath the floorboards. An intriguing mystery from a stylish new voice in crime fiction, for readers of Kerry Greenwood and Holly Throsby.Continue reading

Ep.4/2021 Pamela Hart – digging Up dirt, Cassie hamer talks about author collaborations, and our book of the month discussion is  “Like Mother” by cassandra austin

A chilling police thriller set in a small coastal town on the Mornington Peninsula, where the discovery of human bones on an isolated beach has reawakened a twenty-year-old cold case…Continue reading

Ep.3/2021 Katherine Firkin – The Girl Remains, Cassie Hamer on Book lists and our book of the month is Lovebirds by amanda hampson

Welcome to The Emporium of Imagination, a most unusual shop that travels the world offering vintage gifts to repair broken dreams and extraordinary phones to contact lost love ones.Continue reading

Ep.2/2021 Tabitha Bird – The Emporium of imagination, Cassie Hamer with publishing news and our book of the month discussion is Love Objects by Emily Maguire

Propelling the reader back and forth between the 1940s, 1960s and 1980s, The Silent Listener is an unforgettable literary suspense novel set in the dark, gothic heart of rural Australia.Continue reading

Ep.1/2021 Interview: Lyn Yeowart – the Silent Listener,               Cassie hamer’s publishing news,                                                        Book of the Month: the Imitator by Rebecca 

Four-and-twenty extraordinary women; one chance to save a kingdom.What would you sacrifice to save your family, your loved ones, yourself? 
In September 1486, the reign of King Henry VII of England is again threatened by York loyalists. The only thing standing in the way is a four-hundred-year-old sidhe who just wants to be left alone, and a group of London women with a lot to lose if England is plunged back into war.
​But, in 1486, women have no power. Only the ability to make difficult choices and sometimes-heartbreaking sacrifices.Continue reading

Ep. 171  Blackbirds Sing – Aiki Flinthart, Book & Publishing News with Cassie Hamer, Matilda Bookshop, Stirling, S.A., Writing Conflict and Drama  with Lee Kofman,

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