Nina Kenwood
Nina Kenwood is the former marketing manager for Readings. She is the author of two novels for young adults, It Sounded Better in My Head and Unnecessary Drama.
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Review — 31 Jan 2021
The Boy from the Mish by Gary Lonesborough
Gary Lonesborough’s debut YA novel is an extraordinary coming-of-age story of first love, community and discovering who you are. Seventeen-year-old Jackson lives with his family on the Mish in rural…
Review — 26 Jun 2017
Hunger by Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay is the smart, funny, outspoken author of the bestselling essay collection Bad Feminist and several acclaimed works of fiction. Her new book, Hunger, is a deeply personal…
Review — 25 Feb 2018
Educated by Tara Westover
Tara Westover grew up on a mountain in Idaho with her parents and six siblings. She was given almost no formal education, as her father kept the family isolated, prepping…
Review — 24 Sep 2017
Force of Nature by Jane Harper
Jane Harper’s The Dry was the book of 2016. An Australian debut that grabbed everyone’s attention, it won awards, hit the top of bestseller lists, and captured a Hollywood movie…
Review — 30 Apr 2018
The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
Much like her previous novel The Interestings, I found Meg Wolitzer’s new book The Female Persuasion to be completely immersive. It is centered around two characters: Greer Kadetsky, who…
Review — 20 Aug 2017
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Celeste Ng’s second novel, Little Fires Everywhere, opens with the line: ‘Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children…
Review — 26 Apr 2017
Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
Elizabeth Strout is one the best American writers working today. She is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Olive Kitteridge, and last year’s devastatingly brilliant short novel My Name…
Blog post — 4 Dec 2017
Five things that made me happy in 2017
Our marketing manager shares five things that made her feel happy this past year
2017 has been a very hard year for a lot of people, the kind of year…
Blog post — 6 Jun 2017
10 fun books to read in dark times
Sometimes the best escape from the dark times swirling around us is a good, fun book, dammit. And as luck would have it, right now there are a bunch of…
Review — 27 Mar 2017
The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy
Ariel Levy’s first book, Female Chauvinist Pigs (2005), was an influential feminist work on raunch culture and the sexualisation of women. In the 12 years since its publication, Levy has…