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 Feb 2014
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
Alternatively funny and heartbreaking, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves tells the story of a young woman, Rosemary, and her not-so-ordinary upbringing. This is the kind of book where the…
Review — 22 Jul 2014
The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob
The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing is a hefty 500-page, multi-generational family saga. The novel follows the story of an Indian family who immigrate to America, moving between three timelines –…
Review — 25 Jul 2013
Tampa by Alissa Nutting
The text on the back of my advance copy of Tampa, Alissa Nutting’s new novel about a female sexual predator who is obsessed with 14-year-old boys, reads ‘you…
Blog post — 3 Jul 2014
Books by women you should read this winter
We’re deep in winter which means you have a built-in excuse not to leave the house; it’s practically mandatory to spend your weekend reading under a blanket on the couch…
Review — 27 Aug 2013
Night Film by Marisha Pessl
In 2006 I read and loved Marisha Pessl’s first novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, a 500-page coming-of-age story bursting with literary and pop-culture references. It was an ambitious…
Review — 24 Mar 2014
The Collected Works of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
This warm, gentle novel reads like a love letter to bookshops. It follows the life of A.J. Fikry, a man who is left as the sole owner of a small…
Review — 18 May 2014
The Feel-Good Hit of the Year by Liam Pieper
Liam Pieper’s memoir – of family, addiction and loss – begins in a crumbling, 35-room gothic mansion in Caulfield in the 1980s, where his hippie parents are struggling to raise…
Blog post — 11 Dec 2013
Five notable novels I read this year
The best novel I read this year: The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
I loved this big, bold novel. It follows a group of friends from their teen years at a…
Blog post — 9 Oct 2013
The Best Female Leads on TV
Our online manager (and TV addict) Nina Kenwood picks out her favourite female leads on TV right now.
With the end of Breaking Bad, I say let us now…
Review — 24 Oct 2013
Cartwheel by Jennifer DuBois
Twenty-one year old Lily Hayes is an American college student studying in Argentina. Five weeks into her exchange program, she is arrested for the murder of her roommate, fellow American…