A review by Lynne Larby A while ago I read Daintree by Annie Seaton, a romance between two doctors based in — you guessed it …
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Jeannette Ng
Jeannette Ng’s book Under the Pendulum Sun is about “[t]wo Victorian missionaries [who] head into darkest fairyland, to deliver their message to the godless magical …
3 Essential Tips to Maintain Momentum
Kristyn Jackson wrote this for PhD Peeps, a website we started together just before she escaped academia and headed to Melbourne. Although originally written for …
Representations of Albinism in Australian High School English Texts
The University of Canberra required me to write more for my research proposal on representations of albinism than every other student researching every other topic. …
Illustrating Doerr’s statement implying that the ‘true’ Aryan does not have albinism
Preamble I wrote this post because it intersects my thesis that was to have been on representations of albinism and my preparation for my Critical …
Disabling Characters: Representations of Disability in Young Adult Literature by Patricia A Dunn
Patricia Dunn selected several Young Adult literature texts for discussion in Disabling Characters: Representations of Disability in Young Adult Literature, which focuses on teaching disability …
Carved from Stone and Dream T Frohock
A review by Nalini Haynes Carved from Stone and Dream starts several years after Where Oblivion Lives and is a very different novel although it …
Adam Richard: There is only Zuul
Adam Richard is a comedian, writer, radio presenter and media personality. He’s involved in everything from musical quiz show Spicks and Specks to sci fi …
A Curse of Ash and Embers by Jo Spurrier
A Curse of Ash and Ember is book 1 of the Tales of the Blackbone Witches. Elodie is restless; she’s a prisoner in her own …
Asshole Survival Guide by Robert Sutton
A review by Nalini Haynes Last year I read How To Be An Academic by the Thesis Whisperer, Inger Mewburn (I recommend her book); Mewburn recommends …
The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton
A review by Nalini Haynes Camellia Beauregard is one of the Belles; she was born with colour in Orleans, a magical archipelago where the God of …
Michaelangelo — a silly illo by Ian Gunn
There’s Michelangelo and there’s Michaelangelo: Ol’ Michaelangelo was the guy the Sistine Chapel fired. Mike was ahead of his time. Ian Gunn, creator of these silly illos …
Miner — a silly illo by Ian Gunn
This miner is mistaken: he’s come out in your device. Ian Gunn drew these silly illos for paper zines back in the 1980s and 1990s, …
Mental Blocks (emotional Lego) — a silly illo by Ian Gunn
Mental Blocks for NaNoWriMo participants who are mourning missed deadlines. If Ian Gunn had been drawing today, I have no doubt he would have punned off emoticons …
MC Squared — a silly illo by Ian Gunn
MC Squared is rapping to remind us that E = MC2. Ian Gunn drew silly illos for inclusion in educational text books, of which this …