Last week, the community gathered at Radius Arts in Hepburn Springs for a moving and deeply emotional launch of Crossroads – My Stories of Balibo, a new book of poetry and prose by local storyteller Anne E. Stewart. The event, marking the 50th anniversary of the murder of five Australian journalists in East Timor.
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Lesley Hewitt It’s NAIDOC week (6th-13 July 2025) when we celebrate and recognize the history,...
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Join Nick Place, co-author of “Stalin’s Wine Cellar” and local Yandoit wine maker, James Cuming from Corner Block Winery for a fireside chat about at Yandoit Cultural on Saturday, June 28.
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The Medicinal Garden is a beautifully illustrated book that provides detailed information on various plants including how to sow and grow the plants, harvesting and drying details and information on how to prepare the plants and what they can be used for.
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Now that school is back, the Paradise Books Review Crew is back at work reviewing books for young readers. The Review Crew is a monthly free program run by Devon at Paradise Bookshop for local kids aged 10–15 years old. They meet after school on the last Monday of every month to read and review new books and help curate the Young Adult and Junior Fiction shelves.
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“Six Peaks Speak: Unsettling Legacies in Southern Dja Dja Wurrung Country” is an interdisciplinary and intercultural story across time, cultures, contested histories and unsettled relationships, uniquely traversing First Nations and unsettler, history, geology, ecology, anthropology and reserve management. Author Barry Golding will discuss his book at Yandoit Cultural on April 26.
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Helen Garner’s new book, The Season, follows her youngest grandson’s season playing with an under-16s Australian Rules football team in Melbourne’s inner west in 2023. Garner writes with honesty about her experience of ageing – not just the physical changes – but the fear of being alone and redundant as she watches her grandchildren move into adulthood.
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The Clunes Booktown Festival returns this weekend marking its 19th year as one of Australia’s most cherished regional literary events.
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Les Pitt’s Mud, Blood and Gold provides brief vignettes of some of Daylesford’s founders and administrators, a summary of the various goldmines and leads, the development of the Daylesford Hospital, some of the scandals of the era and the establishment of some of the institutions we still have today.
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Federation University Honourary Professor Barry Golding launched his new book, Six Peaks Speak, Unsettling Legacies in Southern Dja Dja Wurrung Country, at the Castlemaine Visitor Information Centre last week in front of a diverse crowd of about 100. The book tells the stories of six significant volcanic peaks in the Central Victorian goldfields.
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The Paradise Books Review Crew presents a range of books for young readers. And just in time for Christmas!
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John Boyne’s “Water” and Jelena Dokic’s “Unbreakable” explore issues of child abuse. Both books, one fictional, one factual give us some insight into how indicators of child abuse can be ignored. Reading them can help start conversations about how and what we can do to respond.
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