One Wrong Turn by Chenée Marrapodi (published by Fremantle Press) Chenée Marrapodi is an Australian writer and podcaster who has just launched her first book for middle readers, One Wrong Turn. She writes with insight and clarity about One Wrong Turn for Joy in Books at PaperbarkWords blog: Guest author post by Chenée Marrapodi about One […]
Read More One Wrong Turn by Chenée MarrapodiBeing Jimmy Baxter by Fiona Lloyd (a Puffin Book from Penguin Random House) Guest author post about Being Jimmy Baxter by Fiona Lloyd for Joy in Books at PaperbarkWords blog: Uncertainty. It’s an all too familiar word in the wake of the covid pandemic. It’s also the story for my gentle protagonist, 12-year-old Jimmy Branthwaite. […]
Read More Being Jimmy Baxter by Fiona LloydThe Pole & Other StoriesJ M CoetzeeTextReviewed by Joy LawnReleased July 2023Trade paperbackISBN 9781922790354RRP $34.99Category: Fiction The Pole & Other Stories by J.M. Coetzee (published by Text) (This review was commissioned by Books+Publishing and is reproduced with permission) Aficionados of South African-Australian Nobel and Booker Prize-winning author J M Coetzee will be delighted with his new […]
Read More The Pole & Other Stories by J.M. CoetzeeLIONEL AND ME Written by Corinne Fenton, Illustrated by Tracie Grimwood (published by New Frontier) Inside the CBCA Shortlist Inside the 2023 CBCA Shortlist Inside the 2023 Notable Books Lionel and Me is a beautiful, warm story for young children. All dog lovers will adore it. On Writing LIONEL AND ME Guest author post by […]
Read More LIONEL AND ME by Corinne Fenton Illustrated by Tracie GrimwoodWhat We All Saw by Mike Lucas Inside the CBCA Shortlist Inside the 2023 CBCA Shortlist Inside the 2023 Notable Books What We All Saw by Mike Lucas (published Penguin Random House Australia) What We All Saw is a high-stakes tale of friendship, risk and danger. It is well balanced with thought-provoking themes. It defies […]
Read More What We All Saw by Mike LucasA Giant’s Trek by Nick Stella (Text Publishing) Guest author post by Nick Stella about A Giant’s Trek, an imaginative, well put-together fantasy adventure, at PaperbarkWords blog I love a good quest. A group of heroic characters bound together to achieve a common goal. Striding across plains, wading through marshes, climbing over mountains. Fighting monsters, solving riddles, […]
Read More A Giant’s Trek by Nick StellaJessica Au wins the 2023 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction. Cold Enough for Snow (Giramondo Publishing) wins another literary prize. Congratulations! Read my interview with Jessica Au and other panellists at Brisbane Writers Festival 2023. Jessica Au, Susan Johnson, Anne Casey-Hardy & Ianto Ware at BWF 2023 It was great to be moderating sessions […]
Read More Jessica Au & Cold Enough for SnowCome Together: Things Every Aussie Kid Should Know about the First Peoples by Isaiah Firebrace, ill. Jaelyn Biumaiwai (Hardie Grant Publishing) Inside the CBCA Shortlist Inside the 2023 CBCA Shortlist Inside the 2023 Notable Books Isaiah Firebrace is a Yorta Yorta and Gundit Jamara man whose formative years were spent on the banks of the Murray […]
Read More Come Together: Things Every Aussie Kid Should Know about the First Peoples by Isaiah Firebrace ill. Jaelyn BiumaiwaiGLIMPSE by Jane Higgins ‘FINDING THE WORLD OF GLIMPSE‘ Guest author post at PaperbarkWords blog by Jane Higgins Glimpse is a story about earthquakes and what might happen if some of us could see them coming. The world of Glimpse comes from my own experience of a series of earthquakes that rocked my city of […]
Read More GLIMPSE by jane higginsTulips for Breakfast by Catherine Bauer Q&A with Catherine Bauer for Paperbark Words by Joy Lawn Thank you for speaking to Joy in Books at PaperbarkWords, Catherine! You have several interesting titles based around the history of war. How is your latest novel, Tulips for Breakfast different from some of your other books? Hi Joy and thanks for […]
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