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Twinkle: Nick Bland
Nick Bland’s The Wrong Book is shortlisted for this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards (winners announced in August). Now he’s produced something altogether different, but just as wonderful.
Penny Pasketti is surprised to see a little star land…
Overheard: Oslo Davis
Long before he came on board as Readings’ resident cartoonist (I still can’t believe our luck), I was a huge fan of Oslo Davis, thanks to his whimsical, witty and thoroughly entertaining ‘Overheard’ cartoons in The Sunday Age.
For…
The Emerald Casket: The Billionaire Trilogy Book Two: Richard Newsome
After an action-packed, Indiana Jones style ending to the first book The Billionaire’s Curse, Gerald, Ruby and Sam are back and holidaying in India.
But of course, it’s never just a holiday and before they know it the trio…
My Dirty Shiny Life: Lily Bragge
Writer and performer Lily Bragge has certainly experienced more than most when it comes to toxic family dynamics and rampant addictions. The story of her dirty, shiny life is not a pretty one. But then, as she says: ‘Pretty is…
Darkwater: Georgia Blain
Georgia Blain, usually associated with contemporary literature for a much older audience, presents an engaging story about the mysterious death of Amanda Clarke, a popular teenager.
Intrigue sets in as the responsibility for her death is focused squarely on her…
My Blood’s Country: Fiona Capp
A long-time admirer of poet Judith Wright’s work, Fiona Capp wrote My Blood’s Country with the intention of tracing the landscape that served as inspiration for most of Wright’s poetry, but also Wright’s experience of it; how it infused the…
Tiger Hills: Sarita Mandanna
There’s been a bit of a buzz in India about Sarita Mandanna’s debut novel, Tiger Hills. Quite apart from the large advance she reportedly received for it, it is set in the Coorg region in southern India, an area…
The Crime of Huey Dunstan: James McNeish
Finally: an original psychological thriller! Professor Chesney is a blind psychologist specialising in trauma. When Chesney is first asked to interview Huey Dunstan in his cell, the accused openly confesses to the motiveless murder of an innocent man and apologies…
Kindling: Darren Groth
Some novels – even some truly great novels – can take a while to seduce you. This is not the case with Kindling, which opens on a panicked man searching his house for his son even as reason dictates…
Men of Bad Character: Kathleen Stewart
Don’t be fooled by the jaunty cover of the latest book from acclaimed writer Kathleen Stewart – the men of bad character from the title are less good-hearted rakes than men of seriously bad, bad character.
The woman who loves…
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