by Brona68 | Feb 11, 2019 | Round-ups
Welcome to a brand new year of monthly reviews for General Non-Fiction. We’re starting off 2019 with 18 non-fiction reviews, for 11 different books from 14 individual reviewers. A great start! During the week, The Stella Prize announced their 2019 longlist, with...
by TheresaSmithWrites | Feb 18, 2018 | Interviews, Spotlights
Recently longlisted for The Stella Prize, Sofie Laguna’s The Choke is a brilliant, haunting novel about a child navigating an often dark and uncaring world of male power and violence, in which grown-ups can’t be trusted and comfort can only be found in nature. I...
by Brona68 | Apr 10, 2017 | Round-ups
The Non-fiction round up usually has the smallest amount of reviews each month. And that’s fine. If you’re like me, you are reading several non-fiction books at once, very slowly. My non-fiction books usually need to be read when I’m alert and...
by Janine Rizzetti | Mar 22, 2017 | Round-ups
Don’t let anyone tell you that long-lists don’t count! During February, three of the history/memoir/biography books that appeared on the Stella Prize long-list were reviewed by Australian Women Writers Challenge participants. But that’s not all – a total...
by Debbie Robson | May 18, 2015 | Round-ups
Well! What a big month this month with 26 reviews featuring 19 historical novels, including my own which was a nice surprise. The most reviewed book this month was The Strays by Emily Bitto with 4 reviews. This isn’t surprising as the novel won the Stella Award...