A review by Nalini Haynes Last Tuesday I attended the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Celebrate Story Creators event, where I listened to an …
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Kylie Chan
Hi, this is Nalini Haynes, your host on Dark Matter Zine‘s ‘Into the Limelight’ series. Today I’m shining the limelight on Kylie Chan (pictured left). …
Little Shop of Horrors (theatre)
A review by Nalini Haynes Last night I attended The Little Shop of Horrors at the Canberra Theatre Centre. This musical production is based on …
Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon
A review by Nalini Haynes Subhi is Australian: he was born in a refugee camp in Australia and he’s spent his entire life living in that …
Will Kostakis
A Limelight interview by Nalini Haynes Hi, I’m Nalini Haynes, your host for Dark Matter Zine‘s podcast. Today I’m putting Will Kostakis in the limelight. …
Black Magick volume 1: Awakening by Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott
A review by Nalini Haynes It’s night. I guess the Awakening has already happened because everyone’s awake. A coven of witches circle a tree stump, …
Vigil by Angela Slatter
A review by Nalini Haynes Verity Fassbinder is a halfling: she’s half human and half Weyrd (fae). Her father was a kinderfresser, a man who …
Shivaun Plozza
Hi, Dark Matter Zine‘s podcast is putting Shivaun Plozza in the limelight. Shivaun has a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in creative writing and a second …
Shannara Chronicles s01e06: Pykon
A review by Nalini Haynes To read my reviews in order and to avoid spoilers, go to DMZ’s Shannara Chronicles page and start from episode 1. …
Past the Shallows by Favel Parrett
A review by Nalini Haynes In 1983 Harry, (11) and Miles (14, I think) are fisherman’s sons living ‘down the channel’, south of Hobart, Tasmania. Poverty …
Special by Georgia Blain
A review by Nalini Haynes Fern Marlowe was datawiped and dumped in a corporation where she works for data to eat. She remembers her earlier …
Shannara Chronicles s01e05: Reaper
A review by Nalini Haynes To read my reviews in order, to see my initial enthusiasm be replaced with increasing snark, check out all my Shannara …
In the Skin of a Monster by Kathryn Barker
A review by Nalini Haynes Alice’s identical twin sister took a gun to school, shot 7 other students then killed herself. Since then, Alice has been …
Jennifer Fallon
Nalini Haynes interviews fantasy author Jennifer Fallon in the above podcast (MP3) and below video (MP4). Jennifer Fallon left school at 15 and has has …
Shannara Chronicles s01e04: Changeling
A review by Nalini Haynes My reviews of episode 1, episode 2 and episode 3 are at the links; I won’t repeat those observations here. For a comprehensive …