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 …
Fiction
Boy Made Of Blocks by Keith Stuart
A review by Nalini Haynes Alex has left home, his marriage is in tatters, his son is unable to engage. While Alex holes up at …
Whisper To Me by Nick Lake
A review by Nalini Haynes Shelby is walking along a beach when she finds a foot in a shoe. No body, just a foot. She …
Family Skeleton by Carmel Bird
A review by Nalini Haynes Margaret O’Day, matriarch of the Funeral Home O’Days, is in her seventies when a distant relative starts snooping around, researching …
Sarah Ayoub
In this podcast and video I’m putting Sarah Ayoub in the limelight. The podcast is at the top of this post and available in iTunes while …
This Is Where The World Ends by Amy Zhang
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 …
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 …