Aurelia Orr
Aurelia Orr is from Readings Kids
Review — 26 Feb 2024
Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
Everyone thinks Lucy was the one who killed her best friend, Savvy. It makes sense – Lucy was found stumbling through the streets, covered in Savvy’s blood, and claiming she…
Review — 26 Feb 2024
Joy Moody Is Out of Time by Kerryn Mayne
For their whole lives, Joy Moody has told her adopted twin daughters Andromeda and Cassiopeia that they are both from the future, and on their 21st birthday they will be…
Review — 26 Feb 2024
Anna O by Matthew Blake
On the 30th of August, 2019, Anna Ogilvy committed a double homicide, brutally killing her two best friends. The catch is that she was sleepwalking when she committed the murder…
Review — 1 Feb 2024
Slow Down by Kohei Saito & Brian Bergstrom (trans.)
A manifesto for the 21st century, Slow Down is a compelling and thought-provoking read within which Japanese philosopher Kohei Saito offers a Marxist ecological critique on capitalism and degrowth economics…
Review — 25 Jan 2024
We All Lived in Bondi Then by Georgia Blain
Shortly after she passed away at the end of 2016, Georgia Blain’s final novel, Between a Wolf and a Dog, won the 2017 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction…
Review — 23 Oct 2023
What the River Knows by Isabel Ibañez
Set in 19th century Buenos Aires, Inez yearns for her parents, whose long travels to Egypt make her believe their love for a faraway land is greater than their love…
Review — 23 Oct 2023
West Heart Kill by Dann McDorman
It’s the 4th of July. Barbecues are sizzling, the sky is aglow with fireworks, star-spangled banners wave proudly, painting the day red, white and blue. But amid the celebrations, a…
Review — 23 Oct 2023
Hot Springs Drive by Lindsay Hunter
Hot Springs Drive is an explosive cocktail of lust, loneliness, and indulgence, all suppressed in a domestic suburban lifestyle. The tragedy occurs when the truth is unearthed.
Jackie and Theresa…
Review — 23 Oct 2023
I Hear You're Rich: Stories by Diane Williams
Diane Williams, the ‘godmother of flash fiction’, returns with a stunning collection of stories that beguile and unsettle you with their realistic charms and tragedies.
In the first story ‘Oriel?’…
Review — 25 Sep 2023
Unholy Terrors by Lyndall Clipstone
Everline Blackthorn is a sworn member of the wardens, a sect of holy warriors who protect the wall of bones surrounding the kingdom from the demons known as ‘the vespertine’…
