Hello and welcome to the May 2023 title announcement. We are very excited to announce our book this month is A HUNGER OF THORNS by Lili Wilkinson. Maude is the daughter of witches. She spent her childhood running wild with her best friend, Odette, weaving stories of girls who slayed dragons and saved princes. Then Maude …
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Hello to a new month of bookclub! And hello to our amazing new home on Instagram – have you checked it out yet? Go do that! This month’s read is the debut YA fantasy NIGHTBIRDS by Kate Armstrong. Kate runs The Exploress podcast, which deals with all things ‘women in history’ and the threads of …
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Hello and wow it’s Autumn already now we are in March 2023! This month we are very excited to announce our book is SPICE ROAD by Maiya Ibrahim. The first book in an epic fantasy series for fans of Sabaa Tahir, Hafsah Faizal and Elizabeth Lim, set in an Arabian-inspired land. Raised to protect her …
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Welcome to another bookclub author interview! This is where we ask the questions, and the author gets to tell us all the gory details about their book’s creation and inspiration. This month, for our first New Year title TWO CAN PLAY THAT GAME, we have lovely debut author Leanne Yong in the hot seat… Did …
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Hello friends, and happy 2023! I love diving into the brand new year, and it’s always a privilege and a pleasure to be joining with my co-mod Emmaly to welcome everyone back once more for another year of bookclub. I hope your holiday break was fun, and your start to 2023 was smooth. We’re kicking …
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Hello everyone and welcome to our last book of the year for #LoveOzYAbookclub. For December I have decided to do Ellie Marney’s THE KILLING CODE. Virginia, 1943: World War II is raging in Europe and on the Pacific front when Kit Sutherland is recruited to help the war effort as a codebreaker at Arlington Hall, a …
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Happy November, friends! We’re one book away from the end of the bookclub year… Now that the Halloween pumpkins and nutmeg scents are drifting away, can you almost smell the crisp pine of yule logs and brandy-soaked raisins for the Christmas puddings? (Arrggghhh! we all scream in it’s-not-Christmas-yet) But this month we’re doing a flashback …
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An anthology is always a slightly different beast from a full length novel, and we have a great interview this month with Poppy Nwosu, who gives us some insight into the process of putting our October read HOMETOWN HAUNTS together. I’d love to see more horror fiction in Australian YA, so I’m all for it! …
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Hello! I’m back again! First of all, a giant thank you to my co-host Emmaly, who carried the load for running bookclub for the last two months while I was off gallivanting around Australia and the USA on book tour – thank you so much, Emm <3 Secondly, we have a new book for October, …
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Happy Spring everyone in the Southern Hemisphere and Fall/Autumn to those in the North! This month we have decided to do another classic Aussie YA, CAME BACK TO SHOW YOU I COULD FLY by Robin Klein. Seymour is bored and lonely, and running from a gang of kids when he opens a back-lane gate. And …
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