Bronte Coates

Bronte Coates is the former digital content manager and Readings prize manager.

Review — 26 May 2016

Wasted by Elspeth Muir

In 2009, Elspeth Muir’s youngest brother, Alexander, went out drinking with friends. That same night, he climbed over the railing of the Story Bridge and jumped 30 metres into the…

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Blog post — 28 Apr 2016

Exploring Charlotte Wood's backlist

Charlotte Wood has recently been named the winner of this year’s Stella Prize for her fifth novel, The Natural Way of Things. Here’s a look over her earlier books…

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Blog post — 20 Apr 2016

Great reads for tweens becoming teens

Bridging the gap between middle fiction books and young adult books can be tricky for readers. Here are some books that speak to those late childhood and early teen years…

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Blog post — 14 Apr 2016

A guide to Pride and Prejudice adaptations

For a reader who’s looking for smart, irreverent contemporary fiction…

Eligible is one of my favourite adaptations – of anything! – I’ve ever read. Curtis Sittenfeld (who wrote the bestselling…

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Review — 24 Aug 2014

Golden Boys by Sonya Hartnett

Reading Sonya Hartnett’s Golden Boys is unnerving, an experience akin to treading deep water. Everything above the surface appears calm, but there’s the lingering sensation that anything could be lurking…

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Blog post — 2 Feb 2016

Reimagined visions of Australia in YA books

Last week, Marlee Jane Ward’s Welcome to Orphancorp was named the winner of the Prize for Writing for Young Adults as part of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. Set…

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Review — 24 Jan 2016

When the Floods Came by Clare Morrall

Set in a future imagining of Britain that is scarily believable, the latest novel from Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author Clare Morrall is a literary thriller that forces readers to consider…

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Review — 27 Apr 2015

The Green Road by Anne Enright

The latest novel from Man Booker Prize-winning author Anne Enright is a gorgeously raw and expansive examination of the Madigan family. Sprawling thirty years, The Green Road follows the four…

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Review — 29 Feb 2016

A Tangle of Gold by Jaclyn Moriarty

Either, like me, you’ve read the first two books of Jaclyn Moriarty’s Colours of Madeleine trilogy and have been waiting anxiously to find out what happens next to the wonderful…

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Blog post — 14 Dec 2015

My favourite page-turners of 2015

The Every series by Ellie Marney

I tore through Ellie Marney’s Sherlock Holmes-inspired YA detective trilogy in a single weekend. Smart, sexy, and suspenseful, these novels were dangerously readable and…

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