Bronte Coates
Bronte Coates is the former digital content manager and Readings prize manager.
Review — 25 May 2015
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty
Funny, gruesome and thought-provoking, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes is Caitlin Doughty’s candid account of her early experiences working with dead bodies, first as a crematorium operator and then at…
Review — 25 Apr 2016
Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
Eligible is the fourth book to be released as part of the Jane Austen Project; a series that sees contemporary authors adapt Austen’s stories to modern-day settings. This time around…
Blog post — 20 Jul 2017
Here's why Anne with an E feels like a betrayal
Bookseller Bronte Coates on why Anne with an E, Netflix’s adaptation of L.M. Montgomery’s classic 1908 novel about a popular red-haired orphan, has received so much backlash.
When you…
Review — 20 Aug 2017
Take Three Girls by Cath Crowley, Simmone Howell & Fiona Wood
This raw and funny novel is the much-anticipated collaboration between three beloved Australian YA authors: Cath Crowley, Fiona Wood and Simmone Howell. The story follows three girls as they struggle…
Blog post — 14 Jun 2017
Here's what I learned at Readings Matters
A couple of weeks ago I attended Reading Matters. This is a bi-annual celebration of youth literature featuring a wonderful array of international and Australian guests, including authors, publishers, bloggers…
Review — 22 Aug 2016
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
If you enjoy stories that explore the nuances of big, messy, irresistible families, then this new novel from Orange Prize-winning author Ann Patchett is for you. Commonwealth is an immersive…
Review — 29 Feb 2016
Talking to My Country by Stan Grant
In 2015, veteran journalist and Wiradjuri man Stan Grant caught the attention of Australia with his short but passionate response to the booing of footballer Adam Goodes. Earlier this year…
Blog post — 3 May 2017
Book suggestions for soon-to-be-mothers
A perennial and tricky question that booksellers often hear is what to gift someone who is pregnant. Tricky because expectant mothers are not a separate breed to the rest of…
Blog post — 10 Apr 2017
Children's books that teach empathy
We begin to encounter difference right from the beginning of our lives, and all the way through to the end. There will always be different ideas about and ways of…
Blog post — 17 Feb 2017
Here's what we know about The Book of Dust, so far
Here are 10 things we know about Philip Pullman’s much-anticipated upcoming fantasy trilogy. (Okay, nine things we know, and one thing I hope…)
1. The Book of Dust is going…