Kate McIntosh
Kate McIntosh is the manager of Readings Emporium
Review — 19 Nov 2024
The Truck Cat by Deborah Frenkel & Danny Snell (illus.)
The first time I read this picture book, I read it out loud to my cat. She has never been in a truck, and she slept through the whole thing…
Review — 28 Oct 2024
Comes the Night by Isobelle Carmody
The first book in the Obernewtyn Chronicles was published when I was nine years old; the seventh and final, when I was 37. To maintain that kind of dedication and…
Review — 23 Sep 2024
The Lost Book of Magic by Amelia Mellor
There was once a magical arcade in Melbourne, full of books and life and imagination and lollies and monkeys. Most of the arcade has been gone for nearly 100 years…
Review — 23 Sep 2024
Grandma Murphy’s Pussycat by Maura Finn & Lucinda Gifford (illus.)
‘At midnight’s strike as all lie sleeping, comes a figure crawling, creeping …’ And so begins the night-time adventures of Grandma’s cat, a sly black feline on the hunt (when…
Review — 23 Sep 2024
Playground by Richard Powers
I am not a beach person. Traumatised by a near-drowning as a child, given the choice, I will head for hills over coast every single time. So this book, most…
Review — 26 Aug 2024
The Death of Dora Black: A Petticoat Police Mystery by Lainie Anderson
In 1915, Australia’s first female police officers were appointed. In Adelaide, Kate Cocks became the first policewoman in the entire British empire to be paid the same as her male…
Review — 24 Jun 2024
When the Lights Went Out by Lian Tanner & Jonathan Bentley (illus.)
In the olden days, when I was young, the power used to go out in Melbourne’s suburbs a few times a year. Occasionally annoying, but more often great fun, it…
Review — 23 Jun 2024
All the Colours of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
By the second paragraph of this book, you will think you know what happened to young Patch Macauley. (Spoiler alert: You don’t.) By the second page, you will need to…
Review — 23 Jun 2024
The Kellerby Code by Jonny Sweet
This novel has a jaunty cover, suggesting a somewhat twee mystery lies within. The author’s surname, Sweet, deceives the reader into thinking this is something that it is not. The…
Review — 22 Apr 2024
The Truck Cat by Deborah Frenkel & Danny Snell (illus.)
The first time I read this picture book, I read it out loud to my cat. She has never been in a truck, and she slept through the whole thing…
