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Jennifer Cameron-Smith

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Reader, cross-stitcher, quilter, and grower of roses :-)

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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of Buckeye 5/5: Set in the small Ohio town of Bonhomie, this novel spans much of the twentieth century and focusses on the lives of two married couples: Cal and Becky Jenkins and Felix and Margaret Salt. Cal, bo...

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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of A Great Act of Love 4/5: β€˜If you go, you must invent a new story.’ In 1839, Caroline Douglas arrives in Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania since 1856). She has a young boy in her care, and the means to establish herself. She a...

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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of Outlaw Planet 5/5: β€˜This is her story. It’s the story of the gun she carried, whose name is Wakeful Slim. It’s the story of the dead man who carried that gun before her and left a piece of him inside it.’ I am not...

Publication date: 18 November 2025
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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of The Farm 4/5: Leila Haddad and her partner James Crawley are devastated when Leila’s pregnancy ends in early miscarriage. Additionally, Leila requires surgery for a complex gynaecological condition and her rec...

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Some roses in my garden
30/10/2025

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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of China Room 4/5: As is frequently the case, I was led to this novel by one of my Chief Reading Enablers, Lisa. I was intrigued by Lisa’s review, which can be found here: China Room (2021) by Sunjeev Sahota | ANZ...

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Today's roses.

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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of After the Weeping (A DS McAvoy Novel, 14) 4/5: This is the fourteenth book in Mr Mark’s DS McAvoy series, and it starts with a very confronting flashback. A foreign visitor is being shown into what is known as The Dying Room in a Romanian orp...

Publication date: 2 Dec 2025

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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of Silent Bones (Karen Pirie, #8) 4/5: Scotland 2025. The eighth instalment in the Karen Pirie series opens with a landslide on a motorway, which reveals the skeleton of a missing journalist. His name was Sam Nimmo, he was an investig...

Publication date: 2 Dec 2025
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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of Legacy (Martin Scarsden, #4) 5/5: β€˜Stay safe. Great advice. Brilliant. But how do you stay safe from people keen to trash your reputation online, without a fact in sight?’ Martin Scarsden is in Port Silver for the launch of his ...

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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of Gunpowder Creek 4/5: β€˜Mum, please. I need your help. I’ve done something stupid… They’re coming for me.’ A voice mail from her son Zach on a Friday afternoon signals the beginning of a nightmare for Perth mother Emi...

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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of Yellowface 4/5: β€˜The night I watch Athena Liu die, we’re celebrating her TV deal with Netflix.’ And what a slippery slope our narrator, Juniper (June) Hayward embarks on after Athena’s death. June and Athena me...

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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of The Hymn to Dionysus 5/5: β€˜I’ll tell you about rage, and a complicated man.’ No, actually, I won’t. I’ll tell you instead that Ms Pulley is a must-read author for me. Ever since I read β€˜The Watchmaker of Filigree Street’...

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First light near Adaminaby.

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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of Softly Calls the Devil 4/5: Matt Buchanan is enjoying life as the sole-charge police constable in the small settlement of Haast, on the remote west coast of the South Island of New Zealand. Matt is respected, has made frien...

Publication date: 4 November 2025
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My early morning walk yesterday. Too windy today.

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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of The Youngest Son 4/5: Opening in Ultimo in 1920s Sydney, this is the story of the three Leach siblings: John, Maureen and Bob. They are the children of a single mother, and their stories unfold between 1929 and 1944. ...

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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of Dirt Poor Islanders 4/5: β€˜Speak English, you savage. That’s what the pālangi said as soon as they heard my grandmother’s voice. Especially Sharon the Bogan who lived across from us.’ In this novel, Ms Dunn brings anothe...

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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of Meanjin 84.3 Spring 2025 4/5: 'This season we turn to the cultural and political impacts of 11 November 1975 that continue to shape contemporary Australia.' I do not always read Meanjin from cover to cover, but I did this ti...

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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of The Remembered Soldier 5/5: In 1917, an amnesiac soldier was found around midday near the town of Merckem in Belgium. With no identification papers and no memory of the past, he is named Noon Merckem and given a form of san...

Brilliant.
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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of A Disappearing Act 4/5: Marnie Elliott, a bestselling author, has invited her three oldest friends to join her for a holiday in southern Tasmania. Twenty-five years ago, in 1999, the four of them: Sarah, Xanthea, Poppy ...

Publication date: 28 October 2025

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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of The White Crow (Philomena McCarthy, #2) 4/5: β€˜In the real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that line almost sixty years before I was born but it’s true enough today.’ Philomena (Ph...

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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of The Star on the Grave 5/5: I was led to this novel by the review written by one of my Chief Reading Enablers, Lisa https://anzlitlovers.com/2025/08/30/the-star-on-the-grave-2024-by-linda-margolin-royal/ . And through this novel, I learned of another aspect of World War II. Before I read this novel, I knew nothing about the six thousand Jewish refugees saved from the Nazis who had escaped Europe via Japan. I had not heard of Chiune Sugihara, whose actions in defiance of the Japanese government’s orders, wrote transit visas for those fleeing Lithuania. Similarly, I had not heard of Jan Zwartendijk, an official of the N...

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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of Seed 4/5: Mitchell and Frances are scientists, working on the Anarctos project, a seed vault in an isolated location in Antarctica. The seed vault is a biodiversity insurance policy against the impact of a...

Recommended! Publication is either later this month, or October.
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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of The Tangled Web 4/5: Set in Sydney and Maitland, Ms Cooper’s latest novel opens in 1892 with Viola Oswald mourning the death of her beloved brother, Sebastian. Sebastian suffered from haemophilia. Viola’s mother is p...

Publication date: 28/10/2025

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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of The Hiding Place 4/5: Four families have bought a long-abandoned mining town in the Australian bush. Lou saw the ad and convinced family and friends that purchasing it was a good idea: a return to nature, and a way to...

Publication date: 28 October 2025

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Jennifer (JC-S)'s review of The Funeral Crashers 4/5: Intrigued by the title, I was delighted to have an opportunity to read this book. Martin Pottinger, a retired academic, is presently sharing his home with his somewhat eccentric elderly mother, E...

Publication date 28 October 2025. Another terrific novel from Ms Nell.
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