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 […]
#LoveOzYAbookclub February 2023 title announcement – TWO CAN PLAY THAT GAME Read More »
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
#LoveOzYAbookclub December 2022 title announcement – THE KILLING CODE Read More »
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
#LoveOzYA November 2022 title announcement – LIFE IN OUTER SPACE Read More »
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!
#LoveOzYAbookclub October 2022 author Interview – POPPY NWOSU (Hometown Haunts) Read More »
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,
#LoveOzYAbookclub October 2022 title announcement – HOMETOWN HAUNTS Read More »
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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Hi and welcome to our Author Interview with Kay Kerr author of this month’s title SOCIAL QUEUE: What gave you the idea to set SOCIAL QUEUE in the first months of university? I was thinking a lot about bullying, particularly during the release of my first novel Please Don’t Hug Me, when I was getting
#LoveOZYAbookclub Aug 2022 author interview: KAY KERR (Social Queue) Read More »
Hi everyone! We are super excited to announce the #LoveOzYAbookclub book for August 2022 will beSOCIAL QUEUE by Kay Kerr. We all loved Please Don’t Hug Me, Kay Kerr’s first book, so we thought it would be great to feature her second book here on bookclub! I thought I was nobody’s teen crush, but turns
#LoveOzYAbookclub August 2022 title announcement – SOCIAL QUEUE Read More »
It’s lovely to have Kate Murray, author of this month’s title WE WHO HUNT THE HOLLOW, here to visit on the bookclub blog! I hope you enjoy the chance we had to pick Kate’s brain about female superheroes, Umbrella Academy, and why she prefers editing over writing – read on… Hi Kate! Can you tell
#LoveOzYAbookclub July 2022 author interview – Kate Murray (We Who Hunt the Hollow) Read More »
It’s halfway through the year already! And here in the chilly depths of Australian winter, it’s good to know there’s a warm fireside tale coming our way this month… WE WHO HUNT THE HOLLOW is the debut YA novel by Kate Murray, a New Zealander transplanted to Melbourne who is a full-time parent and writer.
#LoveOzYAbookclub title announcement July 2022 – WE WHO HUNT THE HOLLOW Read More »
