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Southern gothic, YA and murder mystery all rolled into one. Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens has it all. This 2018 debut novel caused a…
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. The Monk by Matthew Lewis is one that has stayed with me since I finished it a couple of months ago. This epic 18th…
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. Victims and Heroes by Konstantin Simonov is a powerful book. One that lays bare the existential crisis brought on by the sudden invasion of a…
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I had the pleasure of meeting the author of this work, Pat Walsh,…
Continue reading..The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
It is fair to say that us Melburnites could use some distraction right about now and The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George is the…
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Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to The Deep North almost ruined me for other books. Let me tell you why. Remember when we all thought…
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Her name was Leila…. So begins the story of Tequila Leila. It is no spoiler for me to tell you that our main…
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Most books have a short shelf life. New releases come and go, many without making so much as a splash before the next lot are set…
Continue reading..The Aeneid by Virgil
Homage to great works of the past or straight up plagiarism? Some time around 29bc in Ancient Rome the poet Virgil approached Caeser Augustus and said…
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While reading Salt Creek by Lucy treloar I couldn’t help but think about my place in Australia as an immigrant. How do I reconcile the fact…
Continue reading..Gilgamesh by Joan London
18th October 2020 On a sunny Saturday afternoon, about 18 months ago, I was making my way back to my bookstall at CERES Makers and…
Continue reading..The Plague by Albert Camus
I first became interested in reading The Plague by Albert Camus after watching a delightful French film titled La Tete En Friche, or My Afternoons…
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Continue reading..Welcome to The Moonlight Quill Book Blog
Welcome to The Moonlight Quill. In this the first of what I am hoping will be many book blog entries to this site I would like…
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