The below video is part 4 of a series focusing on the National Centre for Australian Children’s Literature. Dr Belle Alderman shows us the publishers’ …
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Rare Books in the National Centre for Australian Children’s Literature
In the below short video (3 minutes 12 seconds), Dr Belle Alderman of the National Centre for Australian Children’s Literature talks about the NCACL’s rare …
This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
A review by Nalini Haynes Rosie is a student at med school when she meets Penn, an aspiring author. She tells Penn she doesn’t have …
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 …
Avery by Charlotte McConaghy
The Chronicles of Kaya book 1 A review by Nalini Haynes Avery is 25 years old when he dies during an assassination attempt: they were trying …
Daughter of Blood by Helen Lowe
A review by Nalini Haynes Daughter of Blood is book 3 in Lowe’s Wall of Night quartet, an award-winning epic fantasy science fiction series set …
Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton
A review by Nalini Haynes Set in 17th century Europe, Margaret the First is historical fiction of an author and feminist from the era of Elizabethan, …
Supergirl season 1
A review by Nalini Haynes Kara (Melissa Benoist) flees her home planet of Krypton in a space ship minutes after her cousin was launched, heading …
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
A review by Nalini Haynes Strange the Dreamer is Lazlo Strange’s nickname because his head is in the clouds and his research is in the …
Moral Kombat: Ethical Choices in Games
PAX Australia 2016 featured a full schedule of kick-ass panels. I managed to catch several and recorded this one on ethical choices in games with …
Bechdel Test
by Nalini Haynes Circa 1985, Alison Bechdel wrote a comic strip about a minimum feminist standard of movie viewing; this strip is called ‘The Rule’ and …
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 …
Annie Seaton
Romance author Annie Seaton is today’s guest interviewee (text only). Annie is an internationally-published romance writer, and in 2015 was voted Best Established Australian Author by …
Goodwood by Holly Throsby
A review by Nalini Haynes Jean is in her final year of high school in Goodwood, a small Australian country town in 1992, when people …
Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham
A review by Nalini Haynes Tilly Dunnage, the dressmaker, returns to a small Australian town in the 1950s to look after her mother, colloquially known …