A review by Nalini Haynes Janie and Micah live next door to each other. Micah is a quiet nerd while Janie is a terror, inciting …
Fiction
Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
A review by Nalini Haynes Yolanda was gang raped by a group of footballers so, as punishment, she was sent to a concentration camp in …
The Pain, My Mother, Sir Tiffy, Cyber Boy & Me by Michael Gerard Bauer
A review by Nalini Haynes Maggie Butt is a teenager managing a mother who’s suddenly started dating again, hence The Pain. Sir Tiffy is a …
Nest written and read by Inga Simpson
A review by Nalini Haynes Jen, a middle-aged woman, treats her house like her nest while watching nests and drawing a bird’s nest. A child …
Eye in the Sky (2016)
A review by Nalini Haynes Out on bluray, DVD and digital on 20 July 2016. Colonel Katherine Powell (Helen Mirren) wakes up to a phone …
When Michael Met Mina by Randa Abdel-Fattah
A review by Nalini Haynes Michael and his dad are at a rally against refugees. There aren’t many on their side of the protest so …
Ruins by Rajith Savanadasa
A review by Nalini Haynes Ruins is set in 2009 in Sri Lanka, following the lives of one family from 5 perspectives. Civil war rages …
Master Keaton by Naoki Urasawa
A review by Nalini Haynes Master Keaton is an archeology professor without tenure teaching in a college. His wife is estranged but he has a …
Countdown to Danger: Bullet Train Disaster by Jack Heath
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 …
CBCA Celebrate Story Creators (Children’s and YA literature)
By Nalini Haynes It was a chilly Tuesday evening when I first ventured south of Lake Burley Griffin on my own-some, with the minion still …
Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry
A review by Nalini Haynes The Passion of Dolssa is a Spanish version of Joan of Arc except Dolssa isn’t leading her people to war, only …
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 …
Orange is the New Black S01e07: Blood Donut
A commentary with spoilers by Nalini Haynes I started watching Orange is the New Black a while ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. I wasn’t reviewing …
Point Break (2015)
A review by Nalini Haynes In 1991 there was a successful movie called Point Break. Keanu Reeves (formerly of Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure the …
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 …