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ACROSS

1. A fracture without separation of the fragments as seen sometimes in the skull (9.8)

9. A microscopic robot (7)

10. A unit of electrical charge (9)

11. Occupational Stress Injury (1.1.1)

12. Within the realm of possibility (11)

13. Poculum (3)

14. Surgeon’s lamp (4.5)

16. Entrance; the external opening of a canal or space (5)

17. The bony cavity containing the eyeball and its adnexa (5)

19. Touchable, real (8)

22. Symbol for indium (2)

23. Aminoadipic acid (1.1.1)

25. A delicate fibrous membrane forming the middle of the three coverings of the brain (9.8)

26. Diminutive humans (9)

29. Credential (1.1)

30. Acquirer, obtainer (8)

31. Growing old (9)

34. Premature detachment of a normally situated placenta (8.9)

DOWN

The inability to repeat words, sentences, or phrases as a result of a stroke, head injury, brain tumour or infection (10.7)

2. Morbid fear of everything (11)

3. An oily or slippery substance to reduce friction (9)

4. Glenohumeral joint (11.6)

5. Desire, long (5)

6. A micro-organism causing epidemic, murine or endemic typhus (11)

7. Chatty (9)

8. Protection to the embryo and provider of its nutrition, respiration, and excretion (9.8)

15. An organ that produces sex cells (5)

18. Contain (7)

20. A contest (4)

21. A mast cell (9)

24. Complete or partial opacity of the ocular lens (8)

27. Young person (5)

28. An agreeable odour (5)

32. The fluid of a living organism (3)

33. A point (3)

BACK TO BANGKA –Searching for the Truth about a Wartime Massacre

Georgina Banks

Penguin Random House

RRP $34.99

ISBN 9781761341137

Georgina Banks searches for the truth of what happened to her Great-Aunt ‘Bud’, killed in the Second World War.

Bangka Strait, Indonesia, 1942. Allied ships are evacuating thousands in flight from Singapore, the island having fallen to Japanese Imperial forces. Facing terrifying assaults by fighter planes, one ship, the Vyner Brooke, is badly bombed and sinks. Its survivors swim or paddle for hours to the nearest land, a beach on Bangka Island, parched, many dreadfully injured.

One of the survivors is Australian Army nurse Dorothy ‘Bud’ Elmes, the greataunt of Georgina Banks. Bud makes it to the island, where she, colleagues and a matron tend to the wounded as a plan is formulated. But it is soon discovered the place is occupied by Japanese forces, and two days later they arrive on the beach.

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Put some Concrete in your Breakfast: Tales from Contemporary Nursing — Building Resilience, Empathy and Confidence within a Challenging Profession

Stringer International Publishing

RRP $34.99

ISBN 9783031243929

This book gives a sincere yet honest representation of modern nursing in all its forms rather than purely focusing only on the good, the funny, the sad and the ugly. It provides a collection of stories that concentrate on nursing: validating, educating and encouraging those undertaking a nursing career.

The Collected Regrets Of Clover

Mikki Brammer

Penguin Random House

RRP $32.99

ISBN

9780143779001

A big-hearted and life-affirming novel that turns the normally taboo subject of death into a reason to celebrate life! A sparkling debut novel from Australian Mikki Brammer, which reminds us all to live our best life with fewer regrets.

In her work as a ‘death doula’, Clover Brooks ushers people peacefully through their last days, collecting their final words into three notebooks: ADVICE, CONFESSIONS and REGRETS.