Friday, 30 January 2015
Similar to a lot of recent YA fiction, this book is set in a dystopian future. It’s pretty well thought out, though. There’s a rigid class system, computer monitoring, and...

Friday, 30 January 2015
Escaping to relatives in the country with best friend Frankie in tow seemed like a wonderful idea to Joely at the time. But now they have arrived, she’s learning that...

Friday, 30 January 2015
Stand aside princesses and ballet dancers, elves could be the next big thing if the ‘Lily the Elf’ series is anything to go by. Anna Bradford, author of the ‘Violet...

Friday, 30 January 2015
Farm Rescue is the first book in a new series for junior readers by Darrel and Sally Odgers, two names many readers will already be familiar with. Barnaby Station Stamp...

Friday, 30 January 2015
In a similar vein to Lemony Snicket comes Ivy Pocket, an orphaned maid and the terrifically unreliable narrator of this story. After being let go from her current position, Ivy...

Friday, 30 January 2015
The brilliantly named Cerberus Jones is actually a pseudonym for three authors, Chris Morphew, Rowan McAuley and David Harding, who are already bestsellers in the middle-grade market. So when they...

Friday, 30 January 2015
Stick and Ranga are best mates who love skateboarding, PlayStation and dunking arrowroot biscuits into steaming mugs of Milo. Their friendship duo unexpectedly becomes a trio with the arrival of...

Friday, 30 January 2015
In almost all cases, shortness of breath is not a great feeling. In this instance, though, it was merely a symptom of good writing, and it happened as I read...

Friday, 30 January 2015
Between running her father’s struggling café while he takes a well-earned holiday, dodging mean girls at school and helping her best friend with his girl dramas, Del is seriously in...

Thursday, 29 January 2015
In his first novel in 10 years, James Bradley writes about the members of an extended family in a soft-dystopian near-future, where violent climate events have brought rapid changes to...

Wednesday, 28 January 2015
In 2008, Melbourne-based freelance writer and editor Rachel Power released The Divided Heart: Art and Motherhood, a collection of interviews with Australian artists, writers and actors juggling the competing demands...

Wednesday, 28 January 2015
Harvard graduate Maria Katsonis is an accomplished public servant whose successful self-image is disrupted when she falls into depression. In this memoir, we follow her self-medication, suicidal thoughts and a...