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A good cosy mystery offers a particular kind of escape: a familiar high street, a suspiciously well-informed bookseller, a handful of eccentric locals and a…
The science of cooking becomes far easier to absorb when it is explained through stories, experiments and familiar kitchen problems. Audiobooks can unpack why…
Biographies of pioneering female explorers make especially compelling listening. Their journeys move through polar ice, desert tracks, mountain passes, remote…
Library history is a quiet adventure story. It moves from clay tablets stacked in Mesopotamian rooms to the marble halls of Alexandria, from monastery…
After the Optus and Medibank data breaches rattled almost a fifth of the country in 2022, Australian readers developed a sudden appetite for stories about…
Few subjects sit as awkwardly between popularity and obscurity as the history of the Byzantine Empire. It attracts a devoted crowd — students, enthusiasts…
Paper quilling, often described as the filigree of the paper world, transforms narrow strips of card into curling fronds, geometric medallions, and elaborate…
Audiobooks have quietly become one of the cleverest ways for Australians to crack open a hefty science title without paying hardcover prices or staring down a…
Quiet literary fiction has always had a particular pull in Australia. Many readers here grew up on country libraries and school holidays spent visiting…
An explorer trudging through unknown territory can feel strangely familiar to anyone who has driven across the Nullarbor Plain. The long stretches of road, the…