Nina Kenwood

Our marketing manager shares five things that made her feel happy this past year 2017 has been a very hard year for a lot of people, the kind of year where you take whatever sources of happiness you can find…

Sometimes the best escape from the dark times swirling around us is a good, fun book, dammit. And as luck would have it, right now there are a bunch of new releases that are highly entertaining, delightfully funny and 100%…

It’s been a really tough year, and summer is the perfect time to log off from social media for a little while, give yourself a break and binge watch your troubles away. You’ll find my many suggestions below, with a…

If you need to laugh… The breakout star of the year was the delightful My Dad Wrote a Porno. I can truly say I’ve never laughed so hard at a podcast before – especially when standing on a packed, silent…

Here is the best American literature I read this year, in order, with picks one and two pretty much tied as my equal favourites My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout Elizabeth Strout is one of the best American…

Here’s where I’m coming from – I like good comedies, snappy dialogue, family drama, teen angst, action-packed intrigue, survival-against-the-odds stories, anything that will make me cry and legal dramas. I don’t enjoy procedurals, most cop shows, and reality TV. My…

A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler A Spool of Blue Thread very well might be Anne Tyler’s last book, which made reading it a somewhat bittersweet experience. Tyler’s books are sad, warm, funny and always incredibly insightful about…

I’ve finished reading Go Set A Watchman. Whew! What a relief! Now I can read all those reviews, opinion pieces, hot takes and tweets safe in the knowledge that I have read the book, and my opinion, should I…

July is proving a particularly strong month for Australian women’s writing. Nina Kenwood shares four new releases by Australian women that she has read, loved, and can’t stop talking about. Eliza Henry-Jones’ In The Quiet is a heartbreaking debut novel…

Curtis Sittenfeld is one of my all-time favourite authors. I love her books passionately. There’s a quality to her writing I find addictive, in a way I can’t quite explain. I like the way she puts her sentences together, I…

I adore Rainbow Rowell. Her work is funny, smart and deeply interesting, plus she writes maybe the best first kiss scenes of anyone, ever. If you’re a Rowell newbie and you’re considering reading her books, first ask yourself if you…

The first thing you need to know about Marie Kondo is that she is insane. The second thing you need to know is that she’ll change your life (sort of). I bought her bestselling book about tidying, The Life-Changing Magic…