Golden by Jade Timms has been short-listed for the CBCA Awards, and it's immediately obvious that it's a cut above the average YA t...

Lucy Worsley is a well known English historian who has presented many television and podcast series and written several books of historical ...

Almost exactly a year ago, I was blown away by Sarah Moss's Ghost Wall (thanks to Penni Russon for the recommendation). I wasn't aw...

Lili Wilkinson just gets better and better, she is right at the top of her game (disclaimer: we've been friendly for years, she lives ne...

    I heard about Virginia Evans' novel, The Correspondent , at the Sorrento Writers' Festival, where it was discussed by a panel of...

I'm usually pretty positive about the books from the CBCA Notables list, and Shivaun Plozza's The Worst Perfect Moment has an intri...

I'm not usually a great reader of celebrity biographies, but when I saw this Rob Lowe autobiography on the sale trolley at the local lib...

I heard astrophysicist Professor Ray Norris (born in the UK, now living in Australia) and beloved and controversial First Nations elder Bruc...

Margot McGovern's second YA novel, This Stays Between Us , has made it to the shortlist for the CBCA Older Readers award, which is fairl...

My adult fiction pile has been a bit slender lately, so I was casting around for something to read, when I remembered that there were a coup...

I'm not much of a traveller. I did a couple of obligatory backpacking trips through Europe and the UK, and I spent a few days in New Yor...

Adam Cece's The Locked Room was my next read from the CBCA Notables list, and it was such an entertaining ride, I raced through it at t...

I have very dim memories of reading this copy of Elizabeth Bowen's 1938 novel, The Death of the Heart , as a teenager in the 1980s. I ha...

I had never come across the American author Kent Haruf until my friend Elizabeth put Plainsong into my hands. What a revelation! I'm no...

Another quite big brick of a book and another surprisingly speedy read (well, Margaret Atwood is a very good writer). I have been an Atwood ...