The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I never read The Little Prince as a child, so I was looking forward to reading it with my seven-year-old…
Junior review: Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend
Review by Elizabeth Morrison, 10 years old Nevermoor is a heartwarming story that will soon become the favourite of most…
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
What is it about this series that so takes hold of the reader? Is it the Italian setting, so vividly…
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Don’t let the title fool you – Toibin’s book is just as much about Ireland as it is about Brooklyn…
The Geography of Friendship by Sally Piper
The Geography of Friendship is set in a beautiful bush land setting, through which a group of friends retraces a…
Circe by Madeline Miller
For anyone who is curious about the ancient classics, but reluctant to give them a go, Circe is the perfect…
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azari
Twenty years ago, I fell in love with the magical realism in One Hundred Years of Solitude. I had never…
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
There is no shortage of books about the Holocaust, or other horrors of war, but in The Tattooist of Auschwitz…
Extinctions by Josephine Wilson
Some books are painfully clever. They are dense with ideas, and their dialogue is so witty as to be almost…
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
Many of Australians' favourite books of all times, according to the Dymocks 101 list are familiar. Unsurprisingly, there was Harry Potter…
