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 …
Fiction
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 …
Frankie by Shivaun Plozza
A review by Nalini Haynes Frankie was expelled from school for hitting a boy with a Shakespearean tome but she won’t tell anyone what happened. …
Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke
A review by Nalini Haynes Foreign Soil is an audiobook of short stories written and read by poet and author Maxine Beneba Clarke. Each story …
Yearbook Committee by Sarah Ayoub
A review by Nalini Haynes Five students are condemned to an extra-curricular project at their elite Sydney private school: they’re on the yearbook committee. Only …
Yellow by Megan Jacobson
A review by Nalini Haynes Kirra is Yellow, nick-named by her dad for her yellow complexion and cat-like yellow eyes. She lives in a small …
Summer Skin by Kirsty Eagar
A review by Nalini Haynes Jess is hiding from her stalker ex-boyfriend while encouraging all the girls in Unity, her residential college, to entrap Knights (boys …
Stars at Oktober Bend by Glenda Millard
A review by Nalini Haynes Alice Nightingale is 15 years old. According to her diagnosis she will remain ‘forever 12’ because of a head injury …
Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E Lockhart
A review by Nalini Haynes Frankie’s family call her ‘Bunny Rabbit’ and discount her abilities. Starting sophomore year at high school, she discovers her new …