Emily Gale
Emily Gale is a former Readings bookseller and prize manager. She is the author of a number of children’s and young adult books.
Review — 29 Jul 2013
The Sky So Heavy by Claire Zorn
Certain books we read as adolescents stay with us. For Claire Zorn, Louise Lawrence’s Children of the Dust planted the seed in her mind that would eventually become her debut…
Review — 30 Jul 2013
Welcome to My Country by Laklak Burarrwanga & family
The Yolngu people of Bawaka – a beautiful, remote beach in the East Arnhem Land region – are said to be the most culturally intact Indigenous group in Australia. This…
Blog post — 10 Jul 2013
Kids and YA July Round-up
As the start of a new school term draws near, our kids and YA books selection is full of last-minute rabble-rousers and rebels!
Recent law graduate Skye Melki-Wegner decided to…
Blog post — 7 Jul 2013
AFL: Australian Football...Literature!
Last year I could write on the back of a stamp what I knew about AFL. This year I’m still pretty clueless but there are two new developments…
Blog post — 11 Jun 2013
Kids & YA June Round-Up
With Melbourne’s Reading Matters all wrapped up and some brilliant new Australian releases, the month has been dominated by young adult fiction. Emily Gale gives us her picks with a…
Review — 30 May 2013
The River Charm by Belinda Murrell
I can’t resist a time-slip novel and Belinda Murrell has already established herself as a contender in this genre with The Ivory Rose and The Forgotten Pearl. Her stories…
Blog post — 28 May 2013
When Libba Met Fiona
U.S. YA met Australian YA today at the Carlton store ahead of the three-day
Fresh from the Sydney Writers’ Festival, bestselling US author Libba Bray popped in for a visit…
Review — 29 May 2013
The Bone Dragon by Alexia Casale
I wanted to read this story as soon as I saw the beautiful cover and read the single line hook: a teenage girl, Evie, carves a tiny dragon from a…
Review — 25 Jun 2013
The Girl Who Brought Mischief by Katrina Nannestad
This is a little heartbreaker of a story. Think Pollyanna meets Anne of Green Gables with a dash of Heidi. It’s set in Denmark in 1911, so younger readers…
Blog post — 16 May 2013
Reading Matters at SLV: Round-Up
From Thursday 30th May to Saturday 1st June, Melbourne’s children’s and YA book fanatics are going to be in Seventh Heaven – and by that I mean The State Library…