Aurelia Orr
Aurelia Orr is from Readings Kids
Blog post — 6 Dec 2024
What to read, based on your favourite character from Wicked
If you’ve just watched the new Wicked movie, you’re probably like me and itching to either rewatch it again, create a time machine to skip forward to next year for…
Review — 27 Oct 2024
Ink Ribbon Red by Alex Pavesi
Just when I think my heart has been captured by the newest romances, or I’m getting swept away into a fantasy novel, I read mysteries such as Alex Pavesi’s Ink…
Review — 27 Oct 2024
Hotel Lucky Seven by Kotaro Isaka & Brian Bergstrom (trans.)
Kotaro Isaka, author of the internationally best-selling novel Bullet Train, returns with an equally exciting, fast-paced, high-stakes thriller in this sequel, Hotel Lucky Seven.
Nanao – codename ‘Ladybug’…
Review — 27 Oct 2024
Leave the Girls Behind by Jacqueline Bublitz
The author of the award-winning debut Before You Knew My Name, Jacqueline Bublitz’s newest novel challenges the glamourisation, by the media and in pop culture, of male serial killers…
Review — 27 Oct 2024
The Trunk by Kim Ryeo-ryeong & The Ko-lab (trans.)
Inji is a Field Wife working for the New Marriage department of Wedding & Life, a matchmaking agency wherein wealthy clients can hire a wife or husband for a short-term…
Blog post — 4 Oct 2024
Q&A with award-winning author Robbie Arnott
Aurelia Orr, one of our most prolific and insightful Readings staff reviewers, chats with Robbie Arnott about his tense and lyrical latest novel, Dusk, and the titular character’s…
Review — 23 Sep 2024
The Dagger and the Flame (The City of Fantome, Book 1) by Catherine Doyle
Seraphine Marchant has always lived a life of secrecy alongside her mother, an alchemist and smuggler of Shade, a magic powder. Shade gives anyone the power to bend shadows to…
Review — 23 Sep 2024
No One Will Know by Rose Carlyle
Eve is all alone – no friends or family to turn towards, her boyfriend killed in a car accident, and his wealthy family wanting nothing to do with her, even…
Review — 23 Sep 2024
The Ledge by Christian White
Twenty-four years ago, four boys were best friends, inseparable, like brothers. That was until the night that changed everything, when their friend Aaron ran away from home. Now, years later…
Review — 23 Sep 2024
A Song to Drown Rivers by Ann Liang
Ann Liang, winner of The Readings Young Adult Prize 2023 for her debut If You Could See the Sun, premieres her first adult novel in this spell-binding historical fiction…
