Reviews
Review: La Mama 4 Kids - Super Jenny! (VIC)
This short series for preschoolers incorporates fine and gross motor skills, Auslan, shape recognition, singing, dancing and musical terms in…
Review: Thom Pain (Based on Nothing), streamed from the Old Fitz Theatre
A play about anxious masculinity that isn't short on tragic humour.
Book review: Snow by Gina Inverarity
This is one of the best young adult adventure stories published in a long time.
Book review: Providence by Max Barry
As a plot for a guns-a-blazing space opera, this novel could well be a huge success.
Book review: Mammoth by Chris Flynn
For all its fantastical elements Mammoth is a novel steeped in fact and extensive research.
Book review: Cursed: An Anthology Edited by Marie O’Regan and Paul Kane
This collection of dark tales, featuring writers such as Christina Henry, Neil Gaiman and Karen Joy Fowler, explores and reimagines the power of…
Book review: Period Queen by Lucy Peach
Women have been around for a while but, thanks to age-old stigma, female biology has been left pretty enigmatic.
Book review: Taking down Evelyn Tait by Poppy Nwosu
Like some novels for young adults this will likely prove popular with older readers too.
Book review: Allegra in Three Parts by Suzanne Daniel
This stridently feminist debut packs an emotional punch.
Book review: Family Trees by Michael Farrell
An unconventional poetry collection that pushes its reader to questions norms and re-imagine their world.