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Around Adelaide (Best of Kathryn's Instagram)

View this post on Instagram Finally! A store that still accepts Bankcard 😜 #centralmarket #adelaide #southaustralia #bankcard #shitadelaide A post shared by Kathryn White (@kathrynsinbox) on Jan 10, 2019 at 11:38pm PST

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Review: City of Evil by Sean Fewster

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Adelaide has long held the reputation of being the murder capital of Australia. And while this reputation may largely be based on urban myths, what is true of Adelaide is that it is home to some of the most unusual crimes that the nation (and perhaps the world,) has ever seen. It's also home to so many secrets and suppression orders, often to the point of ridiculousness. In fact, there is barely a person living in South Australia who knows of the true and less than savoury reason that the states founder, Edward Gibbon Wakefield was in jail in the first place.  In City of Evil Adelaide based court reporter Sean Fewster documents some of the strangest crimes that have occurred in contemporary Adelaide and South Australia--from the gruesome slaughter of a transgender truck driver whose partial remains were found in a strawberry patch (and it's strange connection to another ghastly and unrelated crime,) to various crimes with unusual motives. There is an animal welfare cas...

Review: At the Wolf's Table by Rosella Postorino

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At the Wolf's Table is a well written and captivating story of survival under the darkest of circumstances. The year is 1943. Certain that someone wants to poison him, Adolph Hitler conscripts ten women to be his official food tasters. These women will be served whatever food is to be served to Hilter that. Under the watch SS officers, these women will then have to wait an hour to see if they will die. It's a cruel act of torture, particularly when food and other resources are so scarce. One of the women is Rosa Sauer, a twenty-six year old from Berlin. With her parents now deceased and her husband away fighting in the war, she has been forced to move to a small village in East Prussia with her in-laws. The locals don't like her and it is for that reason, perhaps, that she is one of the chosen ones. After all, it's easier to place someone you don't know in a dangerous situation than it is someone that has grown up in the town. As the days go on, the dynamics be...

Around Adelaide (Best of Kathryn's Instagram)

View this post on Instagram Bought the Phantom 2018 Christmas special today. That artwork cracks me up. Also thrilled to see it's in colour #phantomcomics #thephantom #comics #comicbooks A post shared by Kathryn White (@kathrynsinbox) on Dec 20, 2018 at 1:26am PST

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