Aurelia Orr
Aurelia Orr is from Readings Kids
Review — 26 Mar 2024
The Whisperwicks: The Labyrinth of Lost and Found by Jordan Lees & Vivienne Yo (illus.)
Benjamiah is a realist. He does not like anything remotely fictional, and could not care less about all the mythology books his father reads and wishes his son would indulge…
Review — 26 Mar 2024
Wrong Answers Only by Tobias Madden
It has always been Marco’s dream to study biomedicine at the University of Melbourne and become a neurosurgeon. But when he starts to suffer from panic attacks, Marco’s parents do…
Review — 26 Mar 2024
It Takes a Town by Aoife Clifford
Reading this book, I’m reminded of a quote in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, when Jordan says ‘And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties…
Review — 26 Mar 2024
Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi
To those reading this review, I first ask you to imagine a city in your mind. It can be any city in the world, maybe your favourite one, or the…
Review — 26 Feb 2024
I Hope This Doesn’t Find You by Ann Liang
The winner of the The Readings Young Adult Prize 2023 for her debut novel If You Could See the Sun, Ann Liang returns with her third novel I Hope…
Review — 26 Feb 2024
Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
Everyone thinks Lucy was the one who killed her best friend, Savvy. It makes sense – Lucy was found stumbling through the streets, covered in Savvy’s blood, and claiming she…
Review — 26 Feb 2024
Joy Moody Is Out of Time by Kerryn Mayne
For their whole lives, Joy Moody has told her adopted twin daughters Andromeda and Cassiopeia that they are both from the future, and on their 21st birthday they will be…
Review — 26 Feb 2024
Anna O by Matthew Blake
On the 30th of August, 2019, Anna Ogilvy committed a double homicide, brutally killing her two best friends. The catch is that she was sleepwalking when she committed the murder…
Review — 1 Feb 2024
Slow Down by Kohei Saito & Brian Bergstrom (trans.)
A manifesto for the 21st century, Slow Down is a compelling and thought-provoking read within which Japanese philosopher Kohei Saito offers a Marxist ecological critique on capitalism and degrowth economics…
Review — 25 Jan 2024
We All Lived in Bondi Then by Georgia Blain
Shortly after she passed away at the end of 2016, Georgia Blain’s final novel, Between a Wolf and a Dog, won the 2017 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction…
