Kushla Egan
Kushla Egan is a former Readings Carlton bookseller
Review — 24 Jun 2018
Mercy Point by Anna Snoekstra
Five teens in Mount Cobalt each carry a heavy secret alone: they suspect they are adopted, and they are certain their parents are lying to them. When they each receive…
Review — 30 Apr 2018
The Learning Curves of Vanessa Partridge by Clare Strahan
It’s the start of the summer holidays, and the Partridges are off to the beach. But it’s a new kind of family holiday altogether – mum’s gone to Paris to…
Review — 24 Aug 2014
The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl by Melissa Keil
Eden Valley is a beautiful, small country town that has never seen much of anything. Alba – aspiring comic-book artist and creator of Cinnamon Girl – can’t figure out why…
Review — 22 Jul 2014
Are You Seeing Me? by Darren Groth
Reading Are You Seeing Me?, I felt myself wanting to reach out and hug every character, tightly, the whole way through. The experience made my heart hurt in a…
Review — 22 Jul 2014
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
We Were Liars is many things. It is an unflinching glimpse into a family fueled by their own self-destruction. It is King Lear and his three daughters. It is a…
Blog post — 23 Mar 2014
Meet the Bookseller with Kushla Egan
We chat with bookseller Kushla Egan about Laini Taylor’s haunting fairytales, dreams of being Eloise and refreshing feminist perspectives on Australia.
Why do you work in books?
I have always…