Ruby Grinter
Ruby Grinter is from Readings Carlton
Review — 25 Aug 2024
Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi
New Lagos, Nigeria. The books opens with the parting of a couple, Kalu and Aima, who are filled with love and grief in equal parts. Their move back to Nigeria…
Review — 20 May 2024
Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
The bond of a sibling is a difficult thing to express in words. In Blue Sisters, Coco Mellors manages to communicate the tumultuous, vicious, all-consuming love that sisterhood involves…
Review — 21 Apr 2024
Antiquity by Hanna Johansson & Kira Josefsson (trans.)
Our narrator – lonely, introspective, of uncertain reliability – is on the Greek island of Ermoupolis, drawn there by her adoration for and desire to please an older woman, Helena…
Review — 26 Feb 2024
Lead Us Not by Abbey Lay
Millie is in her final year of high school at ‘Our Lady’s’, a Catholic school that Abbey Lay ensures is dripping with recognisable details of at least an element of…
Review — 28 Jan 2024
My Brilliant Sister by Amy Brown
Stella Miles Franklin. Literary hero, feminist trendsetter, trailblazer for Australian women to come – but what of her sister? Linda Franklin has remained largely unacknowledged in the whirlwind of Miles…
Review — 23 Oct 2023
Women & Children by Tony Birch
Lovely, mischievous Joe Cluny is living in 1960s Melbourne with his older sister, Ruby, and their mother, Marion. Ruby has gone away to the country for a few weeks, and…
Review — 1 Sep 2023
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
‘History is a silent record of people who did not know when to leave.’
As the clouds of political change enshroud a modern Ireland, the newly powerful Nationalist Alliance Party…
