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CLARKE, Paul

Aug 12, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Children's Books, Science Fiction, Technology \ Computer \ Internet

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Botcation

 

Time to explore!

After the chaos at Bot Camp, Daniel and his friends need a vacation. Better yet, a BOTCATION. So when billionaire tech philanthropist Bernard Barker invites them all on a wilderness adventure in his hightech six-wheel-drive all-terrain mega-RV, Daniel leaps at the chance.

A chopper drops them in Bernard’s remote nature reserve where robots called Huntbots are restoring the natural ecosystem by removing invasive species. Luckily, they won’t be active.

Timmy has expert knowledge of camping and the outdoors, and Daniel is enjoying learning to pitch a tent while Mary roasts marshmallows over the campfire. Even Daniel’s mom and sister are relaxing in the tranquil environment. It’s the road trip of a lifetime… even though there aren’t any roads!

And then the Huntbots show up.

With a sassy smart-RV that won’t stop arguing, and a wilderness swarming with rogue robots, Daniel and his friends are going to need every bit of teamwork and survival know-how if they want to get back to civilization before the Huntbots decide that they’re the next invasive species.

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Bot Camp

Time to kick bot!

Twelve-year-old Daniel is obsessed with combat robotics — because duh, who isn’t? So when his plucky lifter-bot snags him a spot at Bernard Barker’s legendary Bot Camp, Daniel short-circuits with excitement. Meeting his tech-innovator hero will be a dream come true!

His mom says he should try to make friends, but Daniel won’t have time for that. Bot Camp is a high-voltage competition and only one kid will win the ultimate prize: becoming Bernard’s apprentice.

Unfortunately, from the moment Daniel steps into the fully automated, AI-powered training complex, nothing goes to plan. The other participants are brilliant, but Daniel’s teammates are totally useless. He’ll never impress Bernard at this rate.

So while the others relax for the night, Daniel convinces his team to sneak into the workshop to fix their bot. But when the labyrinth-like facility mysteriously goes into lockdown, Daniel finds himself in real danger and only his teammates can help.

BERRIDGE, Sally

Aug 5, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Animals \ Pets Non-fiction, Australian, Earth \ Nature

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Flies, Actually

 

A Treatise on saving our insects and a Flyaspora of Celebrity Art Blowflies

Over 40% of our insect species are threatened – but what if we saw them differently?

In this witty and thought-provoking book, research scientist and artist Dr Sally Berridge transforms the humble blowfly and other overlooked insects into high-value art, challenging our perceptions with humour and creativity. Blending a short history of the use of insecticides and practical ideas for conservation, this book is both and artistic celebration and a call to action. Our future as humans depends on these tiny creatures – it’s time we started valuing them.

About the Author

 

Dr Sally Berridge had a Kipling-esque beginning. Born in the foothills of the Hindu Kush (then India, now Pakistan), she is a daughter of the Raj. During the war, her mother died in Calcutta from typhoid, so she was sent ‘home’ to boarding school in England to be adrift in a strange land.

Then after some years, with her father, an inarticulate (though verbose) ex-Indian Army colonel, and a duty-bound step-mother, she went to live on a farm in colonial Kenya.

She returned to England for university studies and migrated to Australia in 1966. Since then, she has been a research scientist, an artist and a science communicator. She gained her PhD in creative communication at the University of Canberra in 2006.

Radio NOVA 93.7

Aug 1, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Children's Books

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What If ? … We Wrote A Book

By Nathan Morris, Natalie Locke & Shaun McManus

WHAT IF ?

Nathan, Nat and Shaun know how to talk on the radio, but can they write a book?

Can they fit a footy loving kid, a hairy dog with a crazy appetite and a vampire bat into one big story?

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Nathan, Nat and Shaun have been broadcasting their radio show to the good people of Perth for the last sixteen years.

Between them, they have four children, two dogs, one cat and an awful lot of pot plants.

GEORG, Sara

Jul 30, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Autobiography, Health & Wellbeing, Parenting & Family, Poetry by Women, Psychology \ Mental Health

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Hopefully Flawed

 

A Celebration of Motherhood

Motherhood was not my lifelong dream.

By early adulthood, Sara had it all worked out. Highly committed to her medical career, she intended on pursuing brain surgery as her specialty. Utterly content as a single girl, she wondered if she was called to celibacy.

One husband and four living children later, she found herself working as a rural generalist. Her best laid plans had clearly gone awry.

Would her medical background prove a help or hindrance with parenting prowess? Harbouring a tendency towards anxiety, how would she face the overwhelming list of things now wildly out of her control? How would this social introvert navigate the relentless demands of her adorable dependants? And as a relapsing perfectionist, would she be crushed by the weight of her own expectations with excelling at this 24/7 job?

Hopefully Flawed weaves cathartic poetry with retrospective prose to celebrate a true story about answering the call to motherhood, and the freedom of finding meaning in the mess.

Flaws are inevitable. Hope is possible.

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Country convert Sara Georg is a part-time doctor, full-time mother, and undeniably lucky wife. She endures the hardship of beachside living in rural South Australia with her husband Matty and their three youngest children.

She holds a deep appreciation for meaningful conversation, a quiet addiction to the thrill of turning off her phone, and suffers emotional allergies to high heels, half-rhymes, and hurry. When she isn’t listening to patient stories, Sara can be found indulging in Asian breakfasts, messy catch-ups, and singing in the kitchen about Jesus, Disney, and Broadway.

A poet and writer since childhood, Sara figured it was time to make something of it before entering her fifth decade. Despite B-grade brush skills, she loves to paint with words. Hopefully Flawed is her first public exhibition—and you are warmly invited.

TARRY, Rhonda

Jul 30, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Autobiography, Family History, Memoir

Lucy Harriet Thomson Reflections Transcribed by Rhonda Tarry
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Lucy Harriet Thomson Reflections

In 1924, Lucy Thomson and her husband William travelled by ship from Australia to tour Great Britain and the Continent.

Part of Lucy’s diary has survived from that year, and this diary (along with her broader recollections of the trip) has been transcribed in this book. Her entries move back and forward in time across the pages. It appears that much of the diary was written during the return journey, likely drawn from earlier notes and memories rather than recorded daily.

Let her words take you there—across oceans and decades—to experience the journey through her eyes.

HUGHES, Glen

Jul 25, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Poetry, South Australia

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Down Under

 

Poems from the Australian Bush

The author’s reflections of early life experiences growing up on an isolated sheep and cattle station known as Muloorina, which lies adjacent to Lake Eyre and the Tirari Desert, all stories conveyed in verse as Bush Poetry.

A companion to Campfire Memories and Happy Campfires.

About the Author

 

It is with heartfelt pride that I present my third offering of Bush Verse, Down Under for your appreciation.

Topics are many and varied, mostly based on life experiences of topical conversation around numerous Campfires, crisscrossing the desert, touching on history, weather events and characters met along the way.

I have a deep respect for this part of the world, (The Lake Eyre Basin) that I’ve been lucky enough to enjoy for just a blink in time, and am now grateful to share my backyard, to my many readers and followers, expressing my thoughts on a life well lived, narrated in rhyme.

For those of you who wish to experience Australia’s greatest inland lake system, I encourage you to immerse yourselves in this timeless landscape to appreciate the aura that consumes your senses from this natural world of wonder!

I penned Ancient Scapes for your appreciation of my feelings, captured within the heart of the Lake, that I’ve been lucky enough to experience.