This is a list of stories featuring People of Color (PoC for short) and interviews or articles about People of Color. Inclusion in this list …
People of Color
Viceroy’s House (2016)
A review by Nalini Haynes Lord Mountbatten (Hugh Bonneville) and family arrive in India to live in Viceroy’s House while overseeing India’s transition to independence. …
This is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
A review by Nalini Haynes Red is a super-human woman wandering the highways and byways of space, time and quantum universes. Her job is tweaking …
Where Oblivion Lives by T Frohock
A review essay by Nalini Haynes Where Oblivion Lives is a historical fantasy novel based on meticulous historical research. Diago is a member of the …
Daughter Of Bad Times by Rohan Wilson
A review by Nalini Haynes Yamaan is a refugee in a migrant detention centre on Eaglehawk Neck, Tasmania. This centre is a combination of Australia’s …
Bride Test by Helen Hoang
A review by Lynne Larby Khai is Vietnamese American with a large extended family. After his cousin died as a teenager, Khai is convinced he …
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
A review by Nalini Haynes Jane tells her story in Dread Nation, the United States as a nation fallen during the 19th century civil war …
Emergency Contact by Mary H K Choi
A review by Lynne Larby Emergency Contact is a young adult coming-of-age romance. Penny heads off to college, relieved at leaving behind her mother who’s …
Cicada by Shaun Tan
A review by Nalini Haynes Cicada works in an office job, possibly in the public service or at a university. He’s been there a very …
No Limits by Ellie Marney
No Limits for Harris Derwent, a bad boy but he’s not so bad that he wants to be a drug mule, not even when a friend offers him a job could get him out of his father’s house. Amie is a nursing assistant in the local hospital. Her Punjabi family ties keep her in this small town although she had dreams of being a photographer. They meet in hospital, Amie caring for Harris after he was shot helping a friend. Sargent Blunt, Amie’s father, encourages Harris to accept a job as a runner for a drug ring so Blunt can take down some local drug dealers before his health forces him to retire.
Wisp: A Story of Hope by Zana Fraillon and Grahame Baker-Smith
A review by Nalini Haynes One day a wisp lands at Idris’s feet, feet trapped in a dark refugee camp surrounded by rolls of barbed …
Jeannette Ng
Jeannette Ng’s book Under the Pendulum Sun is about “[t]wo Victorian missionaries [who] head into darkest fairyland, to deliver their message to the godless magical …
The Ones That Disappeared by Zana Fraillon
A review by Nalini Haynes Ezra, Miran and Isa are children living in slavery, tending opium plans in a basement in Australia. They’re rarely allowed …
Preacher Season 1
by Dr Gretchen Marie Stolte Dr Stolte is an anthropologist, art historian, bead artist, comic book ally & Nimi’ipuu/Nez Perce American Indian. She enjoys breaking …
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) PG
A review by Nalini Haynes Hunt for the Wilderpeople is a family movie with a PG rating based on Wild Pork and Watercress, a book by Barry …
Kakadu Sunset by Annie Seaton
A review by Lynne Larby Kakadu Sunsets are gorgeous but underlying danger lurks, threatening the lives of locals and tourists alike. Ellie Porter is a helicopter …