A review by Nalini Haynes Mindcull is launching on 30 May 2019 at Robinson’s Bookshop in Melbourne! Eila is invited to a Big Brother House …
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The ‘Adults’ by Caroline Hulse
A review by Nalini Haynes The ‘Adults’ is a romantic dark comedy about couples who are trying to be adults after a parenting couple (Claire …
Echidna Jim Went for a Swim by Phil Cummings and Laura Wood
A review by Nalini Haynes On the surface Echidna Jim Went For A Swim is a cute picture book for little children about an echidna …
Fandom by Anna Day
A review by Nalini Haynes Violet, Katie, Nate and Alice all love the book Gallows Dance by Sally King. Gallows Dance is a sensation that …
Space Alien at Planet Dad by Lucinda Gifford
A review by Nalini Haynes Space Alien at Planet Dad is a picture book for young children. Every Saturday Jake visits Planet Dad where Dad …
Liveship Traders Trilogy by Robin Hobb
A review by Nalini Haynes I wrote this review in 2016 and left it in drafts. With uni, disability discrimination and assaults, this review of …
Stop Being Reasonable by Eleanor Gordon-Smith
Gordon-Smith is a philosopher and reformed debater. Her mind was changed. She says it’s time to stop being reasonable because coherent logical argument is futile when money-hungry agent provocateurs
Cyclone by Jackie French and Bruce Whatley
A review by Nalini Haynes Cyclone tells the story of the cyclone that destroyed Darwin in the 1970s in rhyming verse with evocative watercolour illustrations. …
99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne
A review by Lynne Larby Darcy Barrett and Tom Valeska have known each other since they were eight years old, and Darcy has had a …
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 …
Vox by Christina Dalcher
A review by Nalini Haynes Jean McClellan is a wife and mother, removed from the workforce by white male supremacists who’ve decided the way to …
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 …
Disabling Characters: Representations of Disability in Young Adult Literature by Patricia A Dunn
Patricia Dunn selected several Young Adult literature texts for discussion in Disabling Characters: Representations of Disability in Young Adult Literature, which focuses on teaching disability …