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 — 26 May 2016
The Dry by Jane Harper
Jane Harper’s The Dry won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript in 2015, and before it was even published, rights were sold to over twenty territories and…
Review — 25 Apr 2016
Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman
From its very first pages, I knew Robin Wasserman’s novel Girls on Fire was going to be a book for me. I say this because it’s not going to be…
Blog post — 20 Dec 2016
Podcasts to listen to over summer
If you need to laugh…
The breakout star of the year was the delightful My Dad Wrote a Porno. I can truly say I’ve never laughed so hard at…
Blog post — 20 Dec 2016
TV series to watch over summer
It’s been a really tough year, and summer is the perfect time to log off from social media for a little while, give yourself a break and binge watch your…
Blog post — 5 Dec 2016
My top five American novels of the year
Here is the best American literature I read this year, in order, with picks one and two pretty much tied as my equal favourites.
Review — 29 Feb 2016
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Last year, I read Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge, and I was blown away. It was one of the best books I read in 2015. Now I’ve read Strout’s new…
Review — 23 Feb 2015
The Anchoress by Robyn Cadwallader
Set in England in 1255, The Anchoress follows the plight of Sarah, a seventeen-year-old who chooses to become an anchoress – a holy woman – and spend her life locked…
Review — 23 Jun 2015
In the Quiet by Eliza Henry-Jones
I approached this debut Australian novel with some caution, because it centres on a literary device that I can find off-putting: main character Cate is dead and narrating the story…
Review — 28 Jan 2013
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
Graeme Simsion wrote The Rosie Project in the space of just 50 days. According to his blog, he spent 19 days writing the first draft, then 30 days re-writing, before…
Review — 31 Aug 2014
The Girls from Corona del Mar by Rufi Thorpe
Mia and Lorrie Ann live in the Californian town of Corona Del Mar. It is the 1990s, and the two girls, best friends, are 15 years old. Mia’s life is…
