i-Tjuma: Ngaanyatjarra Stories from the Western Desert of Central Australia brings us sixteen unrestricted tjuma (stories) from the region that have been captured with digital media. Considered an endangered ephemeral …
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Pandemic: Patient Zero
Reviewed onWriters, filmmakers and game creators have long explored the idea of a world-changing pandemic (wait no longer!). Amanda Bridgeman’s fast-paced novel Pandemic: Patient Zero is a tie-in to the popular …
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Wildflower
Reviewed onIt’s 1979. Eleven-year-old Jane Kelly is being bullied at school and faces a friendless, lonely summer until Acacia Miller moves next door. The two quickly become inseparable, but not everything …
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Lion Is That You?
Reviewed onSome children’s books quickly announce themselves as potential favourites – the ones kids ask to be read to them night after night. There’s a rhythm to the reading of these …
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Unlimited Futures
Reviewed onUnlimited Futures is an anthology of speculative and visionary poetry and prose that breaks the stereotype of the marginalised voice. Edited by award-winning authors Rafeif Ismail and Ellen van Neerven, …
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Fossil
Reviewed onLike a dusty notebook turning up in an attic, Fossil obliges the reader to take pause. What was that task that took you up the ladder anyway? Listen instead to …
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Jimmy Dean’s Last Dance
Reviewed onThis genre-defying novel weaves together crime, action and US history with a liberal dash of wry humour. Categorised as an ‘alt history noir detective novel’, the book’s writing is lively …
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Acacia House
Reviewed onVivien Stuart’s groundbreaking novel portrays the pleasures and pitfalls of palliative care through the nuanced narratives of Gabby, Maedhbh and Alice – three dedicated nurses from diverse backgrounds whose worlds …
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The Gallerist
Reviewed onWhen a local woman brings a mysterious painting into widower Mark Lewis’s small art gallery, she tells him it was done by a seventeen-year-old boy with cerebral palsy. Mark, however, …
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This Is Me
Reviewed onThis is a bright and colourful board book with a positive message about how unique, connected to nature and special every child is – an affirmation of their potential to …
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