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The best biographies and memoirs of 2024: Literary It-girls, art world intrigue and sociopathy

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Pipe organs sold, mothballed or destined for landfill as churches close

ABC

In a growing trend across New South Wales, churches are closing due to diminishing congregations. Inside Wollongong's Wesley Uniting Church, constructed in 1882, is a pipe organ older than the neo-gothic building itself. "There's a church in Sydney that became an office space, and the organ still gets used for regular concerts," he said. "If you go to a place …

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2 months ago

Two extraordinary memoirs chronicle the ways mental illness carves chasms in a life

LA Times

Book Review No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir By Sarah LaBrie Harper: 224 pages, $27.99 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. In two extraordinary memoirs, Sarah LaBrie and Sarah Moss chronicle the ways in which mental illness carves canyons and chasms in a …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Retired couple's miniature building hobby grows too big for house

ABC

They are miniature buildings, but Jim and Sue Roach's passion for making them is so big, the couple has had to erect a shed to house their creations. "The whole fascination with creating miniature things came from our time in Stratford, where there were lots of little shops that sold miniature crockery and little things like that," Sue says. "It …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Romance fiction's enduring appeal lies in heroines and happy endings

ABC

Before the romance book and TV phenomenon that is Bridgerton, Mills & Boon had long been a staple of the romance fiction world. "If you look at paranormal romances or urban fantasy, it's always the heroine on the cover, and she looks badass," Ms Abarcia said. Heroine's journey Kita Kemp, an Australian Mills & Boon publisher, said the 50-year milestone …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Buyer who acquired collection of 150 model ships astonished to sell almost all of them within a year

ABC

When Kevin Graham replied to a collector's ad selling a "few" model ships, he stumbled upon a treasure trove. Mr Graham sells model tall ships, along with other nautical objects he makes out of repurposed items. "Eighty per cent of the shop is plastic model kits and the rest is wooden ships you actually have to build," Mr Hale said. …

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1 year, 2 months ago

What is it like to have ADHD as an adult? Australians share their highs and lows

ABC

Quick read It is estimated one in 20 Australians has ADHD. "And that's what started my trip down the ADHD path," Mr Wynands said. "That hyper-focus allowed him to get those assignments that normally would take 13 weeks out in six and a half weeks at a time — so that's been an absolute winner," Ms Nuttall said. "It would …

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2 years, 5 months ago

'Dangerous weather' expected across Sydney for next 24 to 48 hours as Illawarra rainfall exceeds July averages in a day

ABC

The heavy rain covering eastern parts of Sydney is expected to intensify and move across to other areas over the next 24 to 48 hours in a deterioration of conditions. Key points: The Illawarra region was hit with 200mm of rain in one day, exceeding its July average of about 50mm In the past 24 hours up to 7pm on …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Nowra Croquet Club celebrates 100 years of playing 'the thought sport', a nasty game for nice people

ABC

Those who play croquet say it is 15 per cent skill and 85 per cent psychology, an aggressive game played by nice people with a smile on their face. The nice people of Nowra Croquet Club celebrate a century of play this year, and today launch a book acknowledging and celebrating 100 years since the club's inception. "It's called 'the …

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3 years ago

How to host an affordable, natural Australian Christmas and avoid silly season blues

ABC

Riding on the back of colonisation, Santa made his way to Australia — snow, reindeers and all. Inviting nature to Christmas Day "First and foremost, we now have a real Christmas tree every year," Ms Nikolovski said. A green Christmas "Not being a religious family, I think the reason we still perpetuate Christmas and celebrate Christmas is purely because it …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Men of Kangaroo Valley bare all for Movember to boost men's mental health

ABC

How far would you go to raise money for a cause you care about? "It resonated with me very much, the Movember campaign that Senior Constable Cremer organised here in the Valley," Mr Hayes said. "People are there to help out others in difficult times and they say it takes a village to raise a child, I think never more …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Jocelyn Nicole Johnson to Sarah Moss, Rose Tremain and Abir Mukherjee: This week's best new fiction

Daily Mail

My Monticello Jocelyn Nicole Johnson Harvill Secker £12.99 Climate change, civil unrest and the rise of white supremacists have made life treacherous for black inhabitants of Charlottesville, Virginia. Eithne Farry The Fell Sarah Moss Picador £14.99 It’s 2020 and single mum Kate is supposed to be quarantining but is going stir-crazy, so she takes a quick walk on the moors, …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Ovarian cancer patient Anne Royters stays strong as she battles illness

ABC

About 75 per cent of women with stage 4b ovarian cancer live for at least 12 months after they're diagnosed, but Anne Royters from Warilla, New South Wales, who received the news almost two years ago, is doing more than just surviving. Key points: Anne Royters has been living with ovarian cancer for the past 18 months She believes that …

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3 years, 11 months ago

Escape To A Picturesque Scotland In Sarah Moss' 'Summerwater'

NPR

Escape To A Picturesque Scotland In Sarah Moss' 'Summerwater' SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A summer's getaway on a picturesque loch in Scotland in your own wee cabin surrounded by festive families - sounds idyllic, no? But what if there's the kind of rain Sarah Moss describes in her new novel, "Summerwater"? SIMON: Tell us about some of these people locked away …

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