The Aurealis Awards shortlist has just been announced. You can go read the official release here . (Which has happily moved to blog format a...

The Hush by Skye Melki-Wegner is a standalone (gasp!) YA fantasy by the author of the Chasing the Valley trilogy. It's set in a comp...

Symbiont by Mira Grant is the sequel to Parasite , which I reviewed in late 2013, and the second book in the Parasitology trilogy (well, ...

I mentioned yesterday that the preliminary Ditmar ballot had been released and it has now turned into an official ballot. You can see it her...

Goodness, what a reading-packed month and a half 2015 has been so far! As I mentioned last month , I was drafted in as a last-minute Aureali...

I don't usually do memes here but Aurealis reading has left my blog a little bereft of content, so why not. Courtesy of SF Signal : Wh...

Today I have an interview with Kat Ross, author of Some Fine Day . This was one of the books orphaned when Strange Chemistry went under . Fr...

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein is a YA novel set during World War II. I have previously read and reviewed Rose Under Fire , which is ...

Space Dogs by Sophia Parsons Cope is a comic drawn and written by an independent artist living in Melbourne (who also happens to be a fri...

Rebels by Accident by Patricia Dunn is a contemporary YA novel about an Egyptian-American girl whose father sends her to stay with her gr...