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Mary Garden

@marygarden.bsky.social
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Award-winning author PhD Journalism My Father's Suitcase (2024) Shining a light on sibling abuse. The Serpent Rising (1988) My years in a sex cult 1970s. Sundowner of the Skies (2019). On my father. www.marygarden.com.au/my-fathers-su…

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ChristianG @mryeswecan.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026
No election fraud to be seen here.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This should be on the front page of every newspaper tomorrow.
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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
image from inside Artemis II

text: i need more men to understand that two men crying and hugging in space after one of them announced they were naming a moon crater after the other one's late wife is actually what peak masculinity looks like.
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The High Court was Bruce Lehrmann's last legal avenue to challenge the outcome.
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Breaking: High Court refuses to hear Bruce Lehrmann's appeal
The High Court was Bruce Lehrmann's last legal avenue to challenge the outcome.
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Mary Garden @marygarden.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I’m grateful to the Daily Mail for telling my story and helping shine a light on an issue that is so often misunderstood or dismissed. Sibling abuse is a form of family violence we don’t talk about enough. I write about it in my memoir, My Father's Suitcase. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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I believed what my sister did to her was normal but it was twisted
Mary Garden grew up thinking her sister's treatment of her was normal until she was hit with a devastating realisation years later.
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
At the funeral of Rev. Jesse Jackson. Rep. Jones and I walk in his footsteps. Our story isn’t possible without the work, advocacy, Organizing, and struggle of Rev. Jackson. Rest in power.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
We have the data. My longest columns have more readers, who read longer, and who share them the most.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 07/03/2026
White House: the witness’s allegations are “completely baseless” and “backed by zero credible evidence.” Fact: FBI found her credible enough to interview repeatedly, and she received a financial settlement from the Epstein estate.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/03/2026
New York Attorney General Letitia James is investigating the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who died in the cold streets of Buffalo days after Border Patrol dumped him without coordinating with his family or lawyers.
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New York is investigating the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam
AG Letitia James will head an "independent assessment" of what happened to the Blind Rohingya refugee who Border Patrol dumped in Buffalo.
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Roz Morris @rozmorris.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
One author's experience with a dubious book award - and what it cost her. @marygarden.bsky.social at @janefriedman.com janefriedman.com/my-brush-wit... #writingcommunity #publishing #authorcommunity
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My Brush with a Pay-to-Play Book Award | Jane Friedman
The majority of book awards are pay-to-play deals. Some do little harm, others are genuinely useful, but most make no difference to your career or sales.
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Jane Friedman @janefriedman.com · 04/12/2025
Ever since I’ve been in the business, there have been pay-to-play book awards. They make up the majority of book awards, in fact. Some of these awards do little harm, others are genuinely useful, but most don't make a difference at all. Learn more from @marygarden.bsky.social.
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My Brush with a Pay-to-Play Book Award | Jane Friedman
The majority of book awards are pay-to-play deals. Some do little harm, others are genuinely useful, but most make no difference to your career or sales.
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Mary Garden @marygarden.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
My article on a strange book award. I got sucked in! many thanks @janefriedman.com janefriedman.com/my-brush-wit...
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Mary Garden @marygarden.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Here is my piece on the Able Golden Book Award, a very unusual and strange award. newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/25/a...
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Author attends quite weird awards ceremony
Flights, hotel, and a $275 dinner: the costs of attending a vanity book awards ceremony.
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Mary Garden @marygarden.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Lovely to see my article Why I didn't grieve my sister's death published by Women Writers Womens Books booksbywomen.org/why-i-didnt-...
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Why I Didn’t Grieve My Sister’s Death  - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Mary Garden When my sister died, I didn’t cry. I didn’t feel heartbroken. I felt relief. It was August 2023. My sister Anna had just passed away. Instead of overwhelming sadness, I felt a quiet cal...
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Mary Garden @marygarden.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Thrilled that my essay on the power of memoir has been published by @womenwriters.bsky.social I love true stories, especially memoir. That's what I mostly write. It has helped me get rid of shame and see things more clearly. My books help others, too. booksbywomen.org/the-power-of...
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The Power of Memoir By Mary Garden - Women Writers, Women's Books
By Mary Garden Writing my life helped heal me – and showed others they weren’t alone I love true stories, especially memoirs. That’s what I write. I have now written three books, each exploring my pas...
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Mary Garden @marygarden.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
So thrilled to be on this long list. Overcoming adversity. My Father’s Suitcase. Surviving family violence, intergenerational trauma and sibling abuse and betrayal.
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Mary Garden @marygarden.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Thrilled that My Father’s Suitcase is on the longlist for Chanticleer Award: Journey Award for Overcoming Adversity. Amazed and surprised that MFS now has five awards (also finalist for Able Golden Book Award to be announced in Melbourne in October). I poured my heart into this story. A reckoning
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Mary Garden @marygarden.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
My revised/updated book cover. Very honoured that MFS has four awards. I poured my heart and soul into this book. It is not a misery memoir - it is a story of survival & healing from intergenerational trauma, including sibling abuse, the most common form of family violence, yet seldom discussed.
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Mary Garden @marygarden.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Maurice and Me: My story of Maurice Gee and what he meant to me. open.substack.com/pub/gardenm/...
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Maurice and Me
my story of Maurice Gee and what he meant to me
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Mary Garden @marygarden.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Beautiful Maroochydore
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Mary Garden @marygarden.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Yay!!! Still can't get my head around the fact that my little book has won FOUR INDIE AWARDS MFS is a memoir on surviving & recovering from family violence and difficult sibling relations. It is a story of hope & resilience. Thanks to the readers, booksellers, and everyone else for the support.
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Mary Garden @marygarden.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Absolutely gobsmacked and surprised that My Father's Suitcase has won another award. 4th now, but this is the best. National Indie Excellence Award. Won in the category of AUTOBIOGRAPHY Why mine? No idea, but thrilled to bits. It's a difficult read on healing/recovering from family violence
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Mary Garden @marygarden.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
At last. Sundowner of the Skies finally available as an ebook. It's taken 6 years, from when it was first published by New Holland. I'm now self-publishing it. What a beauty. Gorgeous cover by Alex Ross, who did cover of My Father's Suitcase My story of my father www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0FG1BMVC...
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Sundowner of the Skies: the story of Oscar Garden, the forgotten aviator
Sundowner of the Skies: the story of Oscar Garden, the forgotten aviator eBook : Garden, Mary: Amazon.com.au: Kindle Store
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Mary Garden @marygarden.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
My brother-in-law has died. He's been an important part of my life. Endorsed all my books. He was a huge supporter of Sundowner of the Skies. www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
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Mary Garden @marygarden.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
New cover of my biography/memoir of my pioneer aviator father. After 6 years, taking back the rights and self-publishing. And an e-book at last. God knows why the publisher didn't do one. Got sick of asking.
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Mary Garden @marygarden.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
So happy to see my memoir My Father’s Suitcase still attracting reviews a year after its release. Nonfiction books have a long life. Family violence an important issue. Sibling abuse seldom discussed And there is also beauty in trauma, surviving it all thepineapple.net.au/2025/05/31/b...
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BOOK REVIEWS: Two books by Queensland authors offer fresh takes on family violence - Pineapple
As Domestic Violence Prevention Month in May draws to a close, two new books by Queensland authors offer new perspectives on surviving the violence affecting
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Mary Garden @marygarden.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Thank you IPPY BOOK AWARDS. I only found out this morning as their emails languishing in my Junk Folder. LOL. Bronze winner Australia/NZ nonfiction. Just thrilled
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Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧 @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
This arsewipe attacks South Africa whilst every week Mass shootings happen across America, many at Schools. Then a few days after this visit the GOP pass Legislation approving the sake of Silencers. GO TO HELL TRUMP AND MAGA
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
"Apologists for Israel might want to reject the charge of genocide [and] suggest its hyperbole or even antisemitic, but the actual experts on genocide know a genocide when they see one - and they see one in Gaza." My receipts on all the experts who say Gaza *is* a genocide. zeteo.com/subscribe
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Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Today's review: @marygarden.bsky.social‬ on Karen Viggers' novel Sidelines: "I simply could not put it down, and raced to the end before rereading it more slowly. It is a riveting and important read." newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/karen-vigger... #AustralianWriters #SoccerParents #BookSky 💙 📚
Image of cover of book Sidelines by Karen Viggers, reviewed by Mary Garden in the Newtown Review of Books.
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Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
ICYMI this week's reviews: Braham Dabscheck on Raina MacIntyre's Vaccine Nation: Science, reason and the threat to 200 years of progress @marygarden.bsky.social on Karen Viggers' novel about soccer parents, Sidelines newtownreviewofbooks.com.au @newsouthpublishing.bsky.social‬ #BookSky 💙 📚
Image of cover of book Vaccine Nation by Raina MacIntyre, reviewed by Braham Dabscheck in the Newtown Review of Books.Image of cover of book Sidelines by Karen Viggers, reviewed by Mary Garden in the Newtown Review of Books.
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Mary Garden @marygarden.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/karen-vigger... My review of Karen Vigger's Sidelines. Brilliant gripping book, that is actually not about footy!
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KAREN VIGGERS Sidelines. Reviewed by Mary Garden - Newtown Review of Books
Karen Viggers’ fifth novel centres on a junior soccer team, but the ambitions and rivalries of the parents are the real story.
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Mary Garden @marygarden.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
The Secrets We Keep is brilliant. I wonder if anyone who watched it guessed the ending. I couldn't help but watch it over two days. God, I'd hate to be rich. www.tomsguide.com/entertainmen...
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Netflix’s new mystery thriller is one of the best binge-watches of 2025 so far — and it’s already crashed the top 10
‘Secrets We Keep’ is another Netflix thriller perfect for Harlen Coben fans
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Mary Garden @marygarden.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Out with the girls at Peregian Beach. I hope you like my hat. I grabbed it from Nanek's head. (Nanek = grandmother)
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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
My first 100 days of independence: How joining the independent media revolution changed my life. open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...
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My First 100 Days of Independence
How Joining the Independent Media Revolution Changed My Life
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Mary Garden @marygarden.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
A kick in the guts This is my piece on plagiarism & my late sister's book. Shame on all of those who allowed this to happen, as she was not well. The publisher, editors, media, publicist ... (If you're interested subscribe now while it is FREE!!! open.substack.com/pub/gardenm/...
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A kick in the guts
plagiarism and publishing
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Mary Garden @marygarden.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
This HANDWRITTEN BEAUTIFUL LETTER meant the world to me today. "Your story resonates deeply with me...Thanks for this very brave book - it has helped me to understand (and appreciate) a lot more about myself and what I went through." SIBLING ABUSE THE FORGOTTEN ABUSE
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Liam Byrne @liamliamliam1234.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Exciting news! I will be holding a Melbourne launch for my new history of the Australian union movement "No Power Greater: A History of Union Action" on Thursday 29 May, 6.30pm at Trades Hall, Carlton. RSVPs essential: lnkd.in/giZ2_Rrm
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Mary Garden @marygarden.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
If you live in Brisbane or on the Sunshine Coast Hinterland Writers Festival is on next weekend. I'll be at the Book & Gift Market, with my 3 books. Looking forward to be immersed in writerly things, and the panel Sunday afternoon on family violence! schwritersfestival.com.au
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Mary Garden @marygarden.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
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Mary Garden @marygarden.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Always nice to come home to this view, my new home in Woombye.
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Mary Garden @marygarden.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
This week I've encouraged two friends with protruding bunions to get medical advice (I've just had bunionectimy); explained to friend she's eligible for partpension (has been for ages)-she's going to Centrelink tomorrow; explained to another you can apply to court for order = access to grandkids ❤️
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Mary Garden @marygarden.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Love my new home at Woombye
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Mary Garden @marygarden.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Point Cartwright. One of my favourite beaches. Been walking around here for decades.
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Mike Carlton @mikecarlton01.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
More on the Israeli murder of the Gaza paramedics, an obscene war crime.
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I knew some of the paramedics killed in Gaza. As humanitarian workers, we are drowning in grief | Amy Neilson
I write to bear witness to the incredible nature of these men – to their kindness, their gentleness and their goodness
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 09/04/2025
This election campaign will involve no mention that our climate is in terminal crisis, there are social epidemics of sexual and physical violence against women, intergenerational inequality is embedded and worsening and the global human rights order has become a farce. But electricity prices...
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Mary Garden @marygarden.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Bought some geraniums, miniature roses and herbs today. I love sitting on this verandah in my new home at Woombye.
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Mary Garden @marygarden.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Wordle 1,374 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 What a fluke
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