Aurelia Orr
Aurelia Orr is from Readings Kids
Review — 23 Jun 2024
Misrecognition by Madison Newbound
Elsa has a problem with obsessions. She’s failing to recover from the abrupt breakup with the polyamorous couple she was dating. Then, after watching a romantic queer film set in…
Review — 23 Jun 2024
If You Go by Alice Robinson
If You Go is a powerfully evocative new novel from Alice Robinson, winner of the 2019 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction for her novel The Glad Shout.
Esther…
Review — 20 May 2024
Death in the Air by Ram Murali
Knives Out meets Crazy Rich Asians in this entertaining and witty whodunnit where murder has never been so glamorous. Everyone who’s anyone goes to Samsara, a luxurious and extravagant spa…
Review — 19 May 2024
Exhibit by R.O. Kwon
Jin feels stuck. She’s at a crossroads in her career as a photographer, and lately she’s been unsatisfied with her marriage to her college sweetheart, Phillip. Phillip has begun expressing…
Review — 19 May 2024
Heartsease by Kate Kruimink
Once upon a time, there were no two sisters whose lives were more closely entwined than Charlotte and Ellen. But everything changed when their mother died when they were teenagers…
Review — 26 Mar 2024
The Whisperwicks: The Labyrinth of Lost and Found by Jordan Lees & Vivienne Yo (illus.)
Benjamiah is a realist. He does not like anything remotely fictional, and could not care less about all the mythology books his father reads and wishes his son would indulge…
Review — 26 Mar 2024
Wrong Answers Only by Tobias Madden
It has always been Marco’s dream to study biomedicine at the University of Melbourne and become a neurosurgeon. But when he starts to suffer from panic attacks, Marco’s parents do…
Review — 26 Mar 2024
It Takes a Town by Aoife Clifford
Reading this book, I’m reminded of a quote in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, when Jordan says ‘And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties…
Review — 26 Mar 2024
Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi
To those reading this review, I first ask you to imagine a city in your mind. It can be any city in the world, maybe your favourite one, or the…
Review — 26 Feb 2024
I Hope This Doesn’t Find You by Ann Liang
The winner of the The Readings Young Adult Prize 2023 for her debut novel If You Could See the Sun, Ann Liang returns with her third novel I Hope…
