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  • 2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Sharon Bradley |Barry Divola |Louise Rugendyke |Melanie Kembrey

    By Deborah Cooke, Sharon Bradley, Barry Divola, Frances Mocnik, Louise Rugendyke and Melanie Kembrey May 24, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. This story is part of the May 24 edition of Good Weekend.See all 17 stories. Who doesn’t love a pregnancy-craving success story?

  • 1 month ago | watoday.com.au | Melanie Kembrey

    SaveNormal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text sizeTo most, they’re pancakes – but to Torrey Peters, they’re monkey blankets. Eggs are cackleberries, chewing tobacco is Scandihoovian dynamite, and women are skooches and strumpets.

  • 1 month ago | smh.com.au | Melanie Kembrey

    , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. To most, they’re pancakes – but to Torrey Peters, they’re monkey blankets. Eggs are cackleberries, chewing tobacco is Scandihoovian dynamite, and women are skooches and strumpets.

  • 1 month ago | smh.com.au | Melanie Kembrey

    , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Diana Reid discovered the hard way that some habits of home and heart don’t survive a move halfway across the world. An enthusiastic ocean swimmer in Sydney – she once wrote for this masthead about her love of the activity, a passion shared by characters in her novels– Reid donned a set of goggles and dived into the ponds of Hampstead Heath after moving to London two years ago.

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Melanie Kembrey
Melanie Kembrey @melaniekembrey
29 Apr 22

Introducing this year's @smh Best Young Australian Novelists: Diana Reid, @Ella_Baxter__ and @mperegrineb. https://t.co/JjtSOsaCrQ

Melanie Kembrey
Melanie Kembrey @melaniekembrey
3 Mar 22

For a change of pace, here's our new column of hot (and cold) takes on pop culture minutiae that will run in Spectrum @smh each week. https://t.co/mNiuqpL59B

Melanie Kembrey
Melanie Kembrey @melaniekembrey
14 Jan 22

One for everyone who has been singing about Bruno this week (featuring a five-year-old's dream playlist). https://t.co/w3Jh3KHWQZ @smh