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Kate Forsyth, one of Australia’s favourite novelists, gives us her verdict on the best books she read in July 2018. Read more

This September we’ve been running Operation GMR, Get Men Reading. To celebrate, we’ve asked some of our favourite Australian authors to give us Five Books Every Man Should Read. Today’s guest is Hannah Richell, author of the award-winning Secrets of The Tides and The Shadow Year. Hannah, take it away… The Stand by Stephen King No man should be allowed to reach adulthood ... Read more

Hannah Richell, author of Secrets of the Tides, reveals her five fiction favourites… Goodnight Mister Tom  by Michelle Magorian I read this book as a young girl. It’s the story of a young boy evacuated from wartime London to the rural home of a grumpy old man. Goodnight Mister Tom is a children’s book but it showed me a very adult side of the world – that parents aren’t always nice to the... Read more

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Hannah Richell author of Secrets of the Tides Ten Terrifying Questions ————————— 1. To begin with why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself – where were you born? Raised? Schooled? My life so far seems to have been punctuated by travel and change. I was born in Canterbury, Kent, and then moved with ... Read more