Books | Westender - West End 4101 https://westender.com.au Brisbane's Urban Voice Fri, 12 Feb 2021 08:08:01 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6.2 https://westender.com.au/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Presentation1-1-e1590309844160-32x32.jpg Books | Westender - West End 4101 https://westender.com.au 32 32 Hidden Icons: Betty Beath and David Cox https://westender.com.au/hidden-icons-betty-beath-and-david-cox/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hidden-icons-betty-beath-and-david-cox Thu, 11 Feb 2021 23:18:32 +0000 https://westender.com.au/?p=17948 The curved driveway leading to the front door is aesthetic and artistic, it takes me a while to accommodate the visual density and identify the house that Betty and David […]

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]]> Book Review: ‘The Brisbane Line’ evokes a rich and powerful sense of time and place https://westender.com.au/book-review-the-brisbane-line-evokes-a-rich-and-powerful-sense-of-time-and-place/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=book-review-the-brisbane-line-evokes-a-rich-and-powerful-sense-of-time-and-place Tue, 19 May 2020 22:30:10 +0000 https://westender.com.au/?p=14710 We often hear various commentators tell us that Brisbane came onto the world stage with the 1982 Commonwealth Games and Expo 88. In fact the city had already been thrust […]

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]]> Who will you vote for in the Queensland Book of the Year awards? https://westender.com.au/who-will-you-vote-for-in-the-queensland-book-of-the-year-awards/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=who-will-you-vote-for-in-the-queensland-book-of-the-year-awards https://westender.com.au/who-will-you-vote-for-in-the-queensland-book-of-the-year-awards/#comments Mon, 30 Sep 2019 02:13:25 +0000 https://westender.com.au/?p=12021 Novels by West End favourites Krissy Kneen and Melissa Lucashenko are among the record number of entries for the  2019 Queensland Literary Awards. State Librarian and CEO Vicki McDonald said, […]

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]]> https://westender.com.au/who-will-you-vote-for-in-the-queensland-book-of-the-year-awards/feed/ 2 “To all who have wounds, may you have the ocean” – Meet debut Queensland novelist Tabitha Bird. https://westender.com.au/wounds-may-ocean-meet-debut-queensland-novelist-tabitha-bird/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wounds-may-ocean-meet-debut-queensland-novelist-tabitha-bird Wed, 26 Jun 2019 06:56:41 +0000 http://westender.com.au/?p=11043 Queensland debut novelist Tabitha Bird has revealed that it was a tree-change with a twist that was pivotal in publishing her first novel with Penguin Random House. Already in reprint […]

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]]> New book explores unsolved assassination that gripped Australia – @AKalagianBlunt ‏ https://westender.com.au/new-book-explores-unsolved-assassination-gripped-australia-akalagianblunt-%e2%80%8f/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-book-explores-unsolved-assassination-gripped-australia-akalagianblunt-%25e2%2580%258f Tue, 18 Jun 2019 03:42:35 +0000 http://westender.com.au/?p=11018 Author Ashley Kalagian Blunt launches her first book, My Name Is Revenge, at a public event at Avid Reader in Brisbane’s West End on Wednesday 24 July 2019, 6pm. She will […]

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]]> “Pie in the Sky”, by Remy Lai – Brisbane book launch https://westender.com.au/pie-sky-remy-lai-brisbane-book-launch/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pie-sky-remy-lai-brisbane-book-launch Wed, 05 Jun 2019 02:42:59 +0000 http://westender.com.au/?p=10902 PIE IN THE SKY, is a new middle-grade prose/graphic novel hybrid just released by Walker Books Australia. The book’s Brisbane launch will be on Friday the 21st of June 2019 at […]

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]]> Finding the silver lining, helping women soar https://westender.com.au/finding-silver-lining-helping-women-soar/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=finding-silver-lining-helping-women-soar Wed, 09 Aug 2017 07:32:00 +0000 http://westender.com.au/?p=9452 A young Sunshine Coast woman is using her own experiences of overcoming adversity as incentive to encourage other women with similar struggles. The result is a coffee table style photographic […]

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]]> Fair celebrates books made by artists https://westender.com.au/fair-celebrates-books-made-artists/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fair-celebrates-books-made-artists Sun, 02 Jul 2017 02:05:29 +0000 http://westender.com.au/?p=9188 One of the joys of reading a book is discovering where the story will take you. What happens when you apply the joy of discovery to the physical form of […]

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]]> Got a story to tell? Tell Roly https://westender.com.au/got-story-tell-tell-roly/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=got-story-tell-tell-roly Wed, 07 Jun 2017 08:53:54 +0000 http://westender.com.au/?p=9111 If you have a short story you’re proud of, Roly Sussex would be delighted to hear from you, and perhaps award you $7,500 as part of The ESU-Roly Sussex Short […]

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]]> Book Review: Design, When Everybody Designs https://westender.com.au/book-review-design-everybody-designs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=book-review-design-everybody-designs Tue, 07 Jun 2016 08:04:42 +0000 http://westender.com.au/?p=7950 In Design, When Everybody Designs: An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation, Ezio Manzini asks us to consider a more significant way of understanding what is meant by design.   […]

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