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This is crime writing at its best, a gripping suspense novel that kept me turning the pages to find out whether justice would prevail over wealth and privilege. Dervla McTiernan has crafted a compelling read that I feel is her best novel yet.
The dragons of Yuro have been hunted to extinction.
On a small, isolated island, in a reclusive forest, lives bandit leader Marani and her brother Jacks. With their outlaw band they rob from the rich to feed themselves, raiding carriages and dodging the occasional vindictive…
I met Julia through the West Australian chapter of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and love her work for children and young adults, which is beautifully written and insightful, especially Before You Forget about a young teen coming to terms with her father's early dementia. In the lead-up to the release of her memoir, How to Avoid a Happy Life, Julia released a series of blogs featuring extracts and sharing her experience of writing such a personal book. From her memoir's opening sentence - 'There is a photo of my mother in a coffin.' - I could not put it down. As the blurb says, Julia's life has been 'stranger than fiction...a wild and marvellous tale', which she recounts with raw honesty, compassion, insight and a liberal dose of humour. How to Avoid a Happy Life a compelling read.
Some people are born into bad situations, some people have bad situations thrust upon them, and some people find bad situations through their dodgy choices, lack of information and personal idiosyncrasies. Julia’ s life sits at the intersection of all three. From high school dropout on a psych ward to card-carrying lesbian on a motorbike, from enduring a controlling relationship with her ex-lover’ s brother to being chased by a media scrum outside a Perth court, the life of beloved children’ s author Julia Lawrinson is stranger than fiction – and she draws on all her power as a storyteller…
