Anna Battese on “The Grey Beret’s Guide to Surviving the Odds”
Tuesday, 23 June 2026 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing
Anna Battese is a Melbourne-based children’s author whose debut middle-grade novel The Grey Beret’s Guide to Surviving the Odds (Simon & Schuster Australia, August) is the first in a planned trilogy. In her review for Books+Publishing, Clare Millar describes the novel as a “bighearted adventure” that “perfectly fills a gap”...





