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Mike Shuttleworth is a former Readings Hawthorn bookseller

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The Swallows’ Flight
by Hilary McKay

Reviewed by
Mike Shuttleworth, Aug 2021

The Swallows’ Flight picks up the threads of The Skylarks’ War, Hilary McKay’s Costa Award-winning novel of World War I. In this new novel, which can happily be read as a standalone, we are on the cusp of World…

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The Happy Lion
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Impossible Music
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A Fortunate Life: Edition for Young Readers
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Amelia Westlake
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Tintinnabula
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On A Magical Do-Nothing Day
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The Boy and the Spy
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Recent blog posts by Mike Shuttleworth

Kids
11 May 2021

Reflecting on the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award winner

The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award is the richest award for children’s literature. It’s worth around $800,000 – courtesy of the Swedish government – and late last month was awarded to the French writer Jean-Claude Mourlevat. Previous winners have included Maurice…
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Books
18 Feb 2019

Bibliomemoirs: Four recommended memoirs about books and reading

Defined by Joyce Carol Oates in the New York Times in 2014 as ‘a subspecies of literature combining criticism and biography with the intimate tone of an autobiography’, the bibliomemoir offers unique and personal insights into people’s relationships to their…
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Meet the bookseller
12 Dec 2018

Meet the bookseller with Mike Shuttleworth

Mike Shuttleworth has worked as a bookseller at our Hawthorn shop for close to four years but he’s been an advocate for youth literature for far longer – organising events and writing about youth literature since 2002! We chat with…
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News
17 Sep 2017

Vale Agnes Nieuwenhuizen

We were deeply saddened to learn of Agnes Nieuwenhuizen’s death last week. Our children’s bookseller Mike Shuttleworth, who worked with Agnes for many years, reflects on her work and lasting legacy. Agnes died suddenly on 14 September in Woodend, Victoria…
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Young adult
24 Mar 2017

Translation, children’s books and John Nieuwenhuizen

Hawthorn bookseller Mike Shuttleworth reflects on translation, children’s books and the work of John Nieuwenhuizen. In Australian young adult fiction circles, the name Agnes Nieuwenhuizen is quite well known. Agnes founded the Centre for Youth Literature in 1991, was awarded…
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Kids
16 Dec 2015

What I loved: The Mouse and his Child by Russell Hoban

The Mouse and his Child is a perfect book for the word-dreaming child. The tale of two tin wind-up mice in search of their own territory sings with incident, humour and emotion. At its heart is a story of family…
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