Joe Murray

Joe Murray is from Readings Kids

Review — 26 Aug 2024

Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody by Patrick Ness & Tim Miller (illus.)

Great News! Zeke and his best friends Daniel and Alicia have been given the very noble task of being school hall monitors! Sure, they’re also the only monitor lizards at…

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Review — 19 May 2024

Imperial Harvest by Bruce Pascoe

Bruce Pascoe’s Imperial Harvest begins with cruelty. The one-eyed, one-armed horseman Yen Se loses his wife and child to an inferno born from the Great Khan’s bloodthirsty ambition; Yen Se…

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Review — 22 Apr 2024

The Apprentice Witnesser by Bren MacDibble

Basti lives in a world much smaller than our own, a world of villages and tight-knit communities created after climate collapse and deadly disease wiped out all cities and most…

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Review — 21 Apr 2024

Only the Astronauts by Ceridwen Dovey

What do we owe the objects we send into space? This might seem like a strange question to ask, but after reading the five heartfelt stories of Ceridwen Dovey’s Only

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Review — 25 Mar 2024

Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra by Bruce Pascoe with Lyn Harwood

In 2014’s Dark Emu, Bruce Pascoe shared the untold story of Indigenous agriculture, suggesting a history very different to the orthodox colonial narrative and starting a political firestorm in…

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Review — 26 Feb 2024

Monument by Bonny Cassidy

Have you ever felt lost in your family history? Have you ever trawled deep into your complicated and often fraught past, finding stories that bewilder and fascinate in equal parts…

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Review — 26 Feb 2024

Servo: Tales from the Graveyard Shift by David Goodwin

What’s the worst job you’ve ever had? Maybe a dead-end retail role, or a nightmare stint in hospitality? For David Goodwin, that answer is as clear as the glass on…

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Review — 26 Feb 2024

Look Me in the Eye by Jane Godwin

One of the most important parts of adolescence is trust: earning it, testing it, losing it. What Jane Godwin’s newest YA novel Look Me in the Eye understands is that…

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Review — 26 Feb 2024

Butter by Asako Yuzuki & Polly Barton (trans.)

A self-proclaimed domestic goddess turned murderer and a quietly obsessive journalist desperate for a story meet in a prison to discuss boeuf bourguignon. They couldn’t have anything in common, right…

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Review — 28 Jan 2024

Monument by Bonny Cassidy

Have you ever felt lost in your family history? Have you ever trawled deep into your complicated and often fraught past, finding stories that bewilder and fascinate in equal parts…

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