Ellie Dean

Ellie Dean is from Readings Carlton

Review — 1 Sep 2023

Everyone and Everything by Nadine J. Cohen

It hasn’t been Yael Silver’s year. She’s just found out (the hard way) that a suicide attempt is surprisingly awkward, and that recovery is confusing, and arduous. Nevertheless, armed with…

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Review — 31 Jul 2023

West Girls by Laura Elizabeth Woollett

When we first meet Luna, she’s Luna Lewis, a Western-Australian-Maltese teen growing up in the suburbs of Perth in a school ruled by the ‘Blondes’. She’s soon reinvented: dropping the…

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Review — 31 Jul 2023

Firelight: Stories by John Morrissey

John Morrissey’s debut collection of short stories is a beguiling, evocative delight. In it, he presents a series of visions that meld the absurd and mundane: a mysterious commonwealth celebrating…

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Review — 30 May 2023

Mrs S by K Patrick

K Patrick’s debut novel Mrs S is a meticulously crafted triumph of queer romance shimmering with tension and sensuality. Reminiscent in some ways of a modern cross between The Getting

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