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Arnold Zable takes us ino the boxing ring of life in 'The Fighter'.

Join in a tribute of four decades of 3CR's community service in 'Radical Radio-celebrating 40 years of 3CR, introduced by Juliet Fox. Toni Jordan has written a comedy about love and marriage, how kids are hurt and the hurt that comes with the inability to conceive them in 'Our tiny, useless hearts'.

There are many perspectives possible when writing about conflict; the hero's as well as the enemy's. David provides both views in 'Dreaming the Enemy'.

Explore love and the delights of Rome in Mark Lemprell's novel, 'A Lovers' Guide to Rome'.Kat Patrick has listed the loves and amusing truths in 'I Am Doodle Cat', illustrated by Laureen Marriott and published by Scribble, the brand new kid's imprint of Scribe Publications.

In 'The Art of Reading' Damon Young writes about curiosity, courage and patience being just a few of the dispositions necessary for a good reader. The role of The Californian in the Titanic tragedy remains an enigma that is explored in David Dyer's 'The Midnight Watch'.

Luke Devenish creates a sense of Australian Gothic in 'The Secret Heiress'.

The truth about a dog being man's best friend is behind Reka Kaponay's supernatural story of nightmares, 'Dawn of the Guardian'.

Aoife Clifford has set 'All these Perfect Strangers' in a university, with new friends to be made, secrets to be hidden and murders. A morally complex page turner.

The effect of suicide on best friends is at the heart of Jennifer Down's 'Our Magic Hour'.Ruth Clare's 'Enemy' looks at how her father brought the Vietnam War home.

How much does Angie, a single mother manipulate George an elderly widower?  Tess Evans 'Mercy Street' is a book about love, loss and loneliness

Will the daughter tell her secret and allow her family help her? Sara Foster's 'All That is Lost Between Us' is a domestic noir set in the Lake District in England.  A lost child, a mother's responsibility and a critical society come to the fore in Olga Lorenzo's 'The Light on the Water'.

Hugo Race takes us on a journey through music, time and history in his reminiscence, 'Road Series', and provides insights about life as a musician. Fiona McFarlane has characters reviewing themselves at the end of each short story in 'The High Places'

Barry Jones takes us on a journey of the great classical works of music and literature in a book that spans several ages and continents.

'Kings Rising' is the third installment in C.S. Pacat's Captive Prince trilogy. Erica Jewel is Kathryn Ledson's creation and in her third crime novel,  'Grand Slam', she protects the number one seed at the Australian Open from danger and herself! Both authors also discuss their involvement with Romance Writers.  

David Carlin knows Sosina well and has written her story of growing up in Ethiopia, finding asylum and a circus career in Australia and the emotional draw back to family and culture of Ethiopia in 'The Abyssinian Contortionist'.

We journey into a surreal world in Leanne Hall's adolescent novel, 'Iris and the Tiger'.

Mary Parker's, 'Fairy tales Written by Rabbits', is an allegorical tale that blends reality and fantasy. The journey of Heath and Millet is one of discovering identity. Anne Brown's, 'Wimmera Journeys'. explores the clash of cultures in the Australia of the 1850's. It is a fictionalized account of a true story. European settlers imposed their expectations on an indigenous boy, Willy, who was taken...

'The Secret Chord' is a contemporary imagining of the life of the biblical King David. Geraldine Brooks recounts his life through the eyes of Nathan the prophet who is tantalizingly mentioned in the Bible as not just the one who confronted David but who wrote an account of David's life. The scrolls, if such there are, have yet to be found.

Tony Park has set a fast and furious adventure in Namibia with rhinoceros horn being at the centre of the drama in 'An Empty Coast'.Steve Tolz takes us on a writer's journey in 'Quicksand'.

Leah van Poppel talks knowledgably about where, why and who are the characters in literature and what do they represent. Honey Brown is the author of many books where there isn't a character with a disablility although she has one. She speaks about why. Write-ability are writing courses run for people with disabilites at Writers Victoria.

If you loved somebody, why would you want a 12 month separation and a divorce? 'Unmarry me' is an amusing novel by Nicki Reed. What virtue lies in assassination? Read Roland Perry's, 'The Honourable Assassin' to find out.

Sonja Dechian's, 'An Astronauts's Life' is a short story collection exploring social issues and different realities. Cooktown has had an interesting history and is the setting of Di Morrissey's 'Rain Music', telling about a musician who will not find his music until he deals with his past.

Robert Power's 'Tidetown' is an allegorical tale containing multiple characters encounting the travails of life. Drugs, laundered money and the mining boom, how are they connected? Debut crime novelist J.M. Green connects them and has Stella Hardy solve them in 'Good Money'.

Jane's memoir is part social history, part social commentary and part personal insight. In reflecting on her life, she initially takes us back to a more innocent time, challenges taboos like sexuality, addresses educational needs and provides an insight into her own battle with anxiety.

Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff take us on a narrative and graphic journey into the future in 'Illuminae'.In 'The Natural Way Of Things', Charlotte Wood has 10 women imprisoned, why and how they cope with each other, their captives and the outdoors would make this a definite book group recommendation.