Book Reviews – Page 15 – Readability Australia

Book review: The Aunts’ House by Elizabeth Stead (UQP)

Set in Sydney in 1942, The Aunts’ House is the charming story of a young recently orphaned girl named Angel…

Review by Sam, 8 years What is the book about? There are seven short stories that all have a completely…

Bridge of Clay is an intimidating book, the size of a brick and as eagerly anticipated as it was, following…

In literary fiction, it is often the language that rises above the plot. Sometimes, little seems to happen, but the…

Review by Sam, 8 What was the story about? The story was about toys that Jacob was going to get…

I read The Rosie Result at the same time as I was reading Toni Morrison’s Beloved – Simsion’s book was…

I’ve been holding off on reviewing Toni Morrison's Beloved because how can you really critique such a book? It won the 1988…

With the follow up just published, I finally got around to reading Dervla McTiernan’s The Ruin. Set in Galway, The…

It is with trepidation that I start reading an author of a book that I adored, and so it was…

Kamila Shamsie's award-winning novel Home Fire begins as a story of two families on either side of the fight against…