REVIEW: ‘Hopscotch’, by Jane Messer
IN 140 CHARACTERS OR LESS: Beautifully crafted sentences tell the story of a family, struggling to maintain its functionality in a city of dysfunction.
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REVIEW: ‘Hey Jack: The Party Invite’, by Sally Rippin
IN 140 CHARACTERS OR LESS: A terrific chapter book for early readers aged 5-7 that explores how it feels to be left out of a party.
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MEET SARAH ARMSTRONG, AUTHOR OF ‘His Other House’
It’s my great pleasure to introduce Sarah Armstrong, a former Walkley award-winning ABC journalist whose first novel ‘Salt Rain’ was short-listed for a number of awards, including the Miles Franklin. Her second novel ‘His Other House’ is now in bookshops and it’s totally absorbing. In this interview Sarah talks about writing, ethics and parenting –
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REVIEW: ‘His Other House’, by Sarah Armstrong
IN 140 CHARACTERS OR LESS: A sensitive and nuanced exploration of how ‘good’ people find themselves in terrible situations.
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REVIEW: ‘Big Little Lies’ by Liane Moriarty
IN 140 CHARACTERS OR LESS: This book is an iron-fist in a velvet glove. You think you’re reading chick-lit, and BAM, you’re suddenly reading about one of the most serious issues facing society today.
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REVIEW: ‘The Prince and the Potty’ by Nicholas Allan
IN 140 CHARACTERS OR LESS: Royalty + toilet humour = a picture book marriage made in heaven
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REVIEW: ‘Foreign Soil’ by Maxine Beneba Clarke
IN 140 CHARACTERS OR LESS: A wonderful short story collection from an original Australian voice that probes how it feels to be the ‘outsider’
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Australian Women Writers Challenge
How long has this awesome initiative been going? Quite a while it seems. Anyway, while I’m a bit late to this particular party – The Australian Women Writers Challenge – I am now there with bells on. It is so far up my alley that I have, of course, joined up. The idea is to
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The Best Children’s Easter Books
Easter is my favourite holiday of the year. The season is changing. It’s a beautiful chance to spend time with family. And, there’s none of the stress of buying a billion and one presents for everyone. I am all for children getting an egg or two at Easter, but quite frankly, the amount of chocolate
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MEET DANIELLE WOOD, AUTHOR OF ‘MOTHERS GRIMM’
You cannot imagine my delight when award-winning Tasmanian author, Danielle Wood, agreed to be Book Birdy’s inaugural author interviewee! I adored her latest work, Mothers Grimm, in which she twists up traditional fairy tales into darkly funny stories of contemporary motherhood. Happily, the lady is as funny in interview as she is in fiction. What
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