Bronte Coates
Bronte Coates is the former digital content manager and Readings prize manager.
Blog post — 21 Dec 2015
Four books that broke my heart in 2015
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
No piece of writing has ever made me cry as much as this raging, eloquent letter from Ta-Nehisi Coates to his 14-year-old…
Blog post — 9 Dec 2015
A soundtrack to this year's best fiction
Pair…
by Atticus Lish
With… Carrie and Lowell by Sufjan Stevens
Because… With its exquisitely crafted, stripped-back prose that leaves utter devastation in its wake…
Blog post — 25 Nov 2015
A summer reading guide to OzYA books of 2015
If your teen is looking for some reading material for the summer holidays, here’s a guide to some of the best YA fiction written by Australian authors this past year.
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Blog post — 8 Sep 2015
New graphic novels for teens
Baddawi by Leila Abdelrazaq
Raised in a refugee camp called Baddawi in northern Lebanon, Ahmad is just one of the many thousands of refugee children born to Palestinians who fled…
Review — 21 Aug 2013
MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
Ten years after the release of Oryx and Crake, the final instalment of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian trilogy is here, a slow-burning and wholly immersive, chilling delight. Once again we’re…
Review — 27 Jul 2015
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Described as required reading by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates’ searing missive to his 15-year-old son Samori is one of the most powerful pieces of writing I’ve ever read…
Blog post — 21 Jul 2015
Q&A with Kate Beaton
Kate Beaton is an award-winning Canadian comics artist, and creator of the much-loved comic strip Hark! A Vagrant. Here, Bronte Coates talks to her about writing and illustrating her…
Blog post — 10 Jun 2015
Five terrific graphic novels for teens
Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
Nemeses! Dragons! Science! Symbolism! Ballister Blackheart is a Super Villain and Nimona is a shapeshifter who’s determined to be his Evil Sidekick. Opposing them is Ballister’s…
Blog post — 20 May 2015
What I learned from the Level 87 Book Club
100 Story Building is a centre for young writers based in Melbourne’s inner-west, where children and young people from culturally and linguistically diverse and marginalised backgrounds are given the opportunity…
Review — 21 Oct 2019
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
When Louisa May Alcott released the first section of what we now know as Little Women in 1868, she was reportedly surprised by its instant success. Imagine her shock if…
