Some people find it hard to view their grandparents as whole people, but after writing her debut book, Stories My Grandmothers Didn’t Tell Me, author Andra Putni says she finally understands.
Katarina Lloyd Jones
The National Carillon is a well-known landmark, but few people know that it is actually an instrument, and even fewer people know about those that play it, says Melissa Bray, author of a new book, Australian Carillonists.
Four Canberra Grammar School students will show off their literary prowess at the 2024 Kids’ Lit Quiz World Final in Canberra on July 10.
In an ideal ACT, there would be regular electorate events run by MLAs, where they talk to the community about issues and provide an opportunity to bring issues into the conversation. That's what Peter Tait told KATARINA LLOYD JONES.
Helaina Petreski is only 10 years old, but she has already taken the Australian fashion industry by storm, and the young Canberran has no plans of slowing down, reports KATARINA LLOYD JONES.
Dr Kerrie Aust believes it's impossible to separate climate change and healthcare. The the incoming AMA ACT president explains why to KATARINA LLOYD JONES.
At the start of 2021, Zak Pino was dealing with the aftermath of covid and struggling to find balance in his life. So he started a weekly walk around Lake Burley Griffin. KATARINA LLOYD JONES reports he's still walking the talk.
Local author Susannah Begbie's debut novel is about a wealthy, but dying, farmer who is “cranky with everything, but with his kids in particular,” reports KATARINA LLOYD JONES.
“Mum does most of the work… it's true, but that doesn't mean that dad doesn't have his own challenges to negotiate," says Dads Group organiser Mike Peereboom.
For 2023 ACT Volunteer of the Year and AIDS advocate Richard Allen, it is important that those who lost their lives to HIV and AIDS are remembered, reports KATARINA LLOYD JONES.
For two decades, the 2022 Senior Australian of the Year, Val Dempsey, hasn't let myositis get in her way, but says it’s high time more people learnt about the incurable condition, reports KATARINA LLOYD JONES.
Greg Aldridge and Simon Port, of EveryMan, are doing their best to tackle domestic violence through their Working With the Man program, a specialist, behavioural-change course for male perpetrators of violence against women.
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![Evie Hudson is a woman with amnesia, who forgets the last 13 years. Piecing her life back together, she navigates the harsh realities of coercive control.
Evie is the leading character in local author @emmagreyauthor's second novel Pictures of You.
Her debut book, The Last Love Note, sold more than 100,000 books worldwide within a few months of being published last year.
“I think that using amnesia really helped [show the effects of coercive control] because she had that sense of being completely lost in her own life,” Emma says of her new work of fiction.
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