by Aislinn Batstone | Jul 5, 2019 | Round-ups
The Australian winter started with a bang in general fiction, with a huge 114 reviews of 75 books. There were a couple of clear standouts, including Tess Woods’ Love and Other Battles, and Tabitha Bird’s A Lifetime of Impossible Days. Both of these excellent books...
by Aislinn Batstone | Jun 7, 2019 | Round-ups
I had a fantastic month of reading in May, due to a new resolve to always have a non-fiction book on the go and read about a chapter per day. I tried to do this early in the morning and I think it got me into a groove of picking up a book during the day—a bit more...
by Aislinn Batstone | May 4, 2019 | Round-ups
April was a little slower than usual in the General Fiction category with a total of 65 reviews of 43 books. But there have been some exciting new releases in the genre that have gathered numerous reviews. Josephine Moon’s new release The Gift of Life gathered...
by Aislinn Batstone | Apr 5, 2019 | Round-ups
March was a solid month for the General Fiction category with a total of 90 reviews of 53 books. The Stella Prize longlist released in February, and the shortlist in early March, had a clear impact on this category: Little Gods by Jenny Ackland was reviewed by Kim...
by Aislinn Batstone | Mar 8, 2019 | Round-ups
My stand-out read for February was Dervla McTiernan’s new crime fiction release, The Scholar – such an engaging book that I didn’t want it to end. But this post is all about general fiction and the work that our busy reviewers have been doing across February. In...
