A review by Nalini Haynes It’s England in 2020 and there are over a million sentient anthropomorphic rabbits living in concentration camps – I mean …
Book reviews
Self Help for Babies Series: Sleep 101 and Whine Guide by Beck and Matt Stanton
A review by Emma Streeton You know babies don’t come with a manual. Well, now they do, in this self-help for babies (parents?) series. When …
Olive by Emma Gannon
A review by Emma Streeton Meet Olive. Olive is Independent. Adrift. Anxious. Loyal. Kind. Knows her own mind. Olive has decided to be child-free by …
Kokomo by Victoria Hannan
A review by Emma Streeton When Mina receives an urgent call from her best friend back in Melbourne, her world is turned upside down. Her …
My Year of Living Mindfully by Shannon Harvey
A review by Emma Streeton Preamble To be honest my usual method for reading anything non-fiction is to dip in and out and find the …
Polar Bear in Sydney Harbour by Beck and Robin Feiner
A review by Emma Streeton “Sydney Harbour is home to many amazing things, but polar bears are not one of them. Sydney is Down Under, …
Fire Star by A L Tait
A review by Nalini Haynes Reeve is a squire. His former mistress, the Airl’s (Iord’s) wife, placed him in a vassal’s (Sir Garrick’s) household. (Everyone …
Hollow Ones by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan
A review by Nalini Haynes The prelude introduces us to a strange letterbox in Manhattan. Ironically, the letterbox is not a link to the Hollow …
Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed (Graphic Novel)
A review by Nalini Haynes Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed is a full-color graphic novel with a substantial origin story. Diana is a teenager with all …
Maybe the horse will talk by Elliot Perlman
A review by Nalini Haynes There’s an old story about a jester or a teacher who ran foul of his king. The king sentences the …
World’s Worst Parents by David Walliams
A review by Emma Streeton In a nutshell, the World’s Worst Parents is about children with ridiculously embarrassing, disgusting or just plain awful parents. We …
Marshmallow Pie The Cat Superstar by Clara Vulliamy
Marshmallow Pie The Cat Superstar, Book 1 and Marshmallow Pie The Cat Superstar on TV, Book 2 A review by Emma Streeton Marshmallow Marmaduke Vanilla-Bean …
Erasure Initiative by Lili Wilkinson
A review by Nalini Haynes Cecily wakes up on a bus in the middle of nowhere with 6 other people, all of whom have amnesia. …
Rebel Gods by Will Kostakis
A review by Nalini Haynes Rebel Gods is Monuments book 2 and the conclusion to this story about the Pillars of the World coming to …
WeirDo #15: Planet Weird! by Anh Do
A review by Emma Streeton Weir (aka WeirDo) is back and it is his birthday, a birthday that coincides with Planet Day. Hence the title …