Joe Murray
Joe Murray is from Readings Kids
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Review — 25 Jan 2024
The Strip by Iain Ryan
The Gold Coast. 1980. A city coated in a thick layer of grime, sweat, and sleaze with a grisly series of unsolved murders looming over its police department. It’s a…
Review — 23 Oct 2023
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
Sometimes, a work of nonfiction feels like a magic trick. While novels can weave poignant, transcendent stories from little more than an author’s imagination, it is something entirely different, something…