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Where dead animals go - by Ruby Perryman

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By Ruby Perryman
| ISLAND
When Audrey Ko was eight years old, back in Singapore, she noticed a taxidermy duckling sitting in her grandma’s cabinet. Her mother told her not to touch it – it was dirty, probably diseased. ‘Oh, it’s an animal,’ Audrey thought. ‘How did they do that?’ When Audrey was 13, her hamster died. She had quite a few hamsters, but Oatmeal was her favourite. Remembering her grandma’s duckling, she called some local museums to ask about taxidermy, but they paid her no mind.
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By Ruby Perryman
| Archer Magazine Verified
Lost in the quiet, industrial part of Preston, in Melbourne’s north, it’s dark out. I spot someone wearing a pencil skirt with Kristen Stewart’s face stretched over the thigh. Relieved, I follow them – trailing a respectful couple of metres behind – to our shared destination. The energy inside the pub is charged. Hundreds of fans are gathered for a Twilight-themed trivia night, chatting loudly over Muse blasting through the speakers.
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November 2025, no. 481

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By Iryna Byelyayeva, Bronwyn Coate, Millicent Weber, Ruby Perryman
| The ABR Podcast
In this special issue of Australian Book Review, we look at the future of the book in Australia. What do the rise in audiobooks, Silent Reading Clubs, and Gen Z’s preference for physical books tell us about where we are heading? To support the book industry now, Alice Grundy champions a new book bounty; and Julienne van Loon, Bronwyn Coate, and Millicent Weber argue that we must learn to quantify the cultural value of a locally produced book.
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‘Beyond the page: Emerging trends among young readers’ by Ruby Perryman, Keely McPherson, and Shristi Kapoor

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By Ruby Perryman, Keely McPherson, Shristi Kapoor
| Australian Book Review Verified
Last year, the European and International Book Federation revealed that Australia had lower reading and book buying rates than nineteen other countries. Only sixty-four per cent of Australians had purchased a book in the past twelve months, compared to an average of seventy-two per cent of people in the other countries. There was much media speculation about the reason for this.
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