I can't believe it has taken me until the end of February to post my first #loveOzYA review of the year! It was worth the wait though - What I Like About Me is an absolutely adorable and fun read! Keep reading below to find out what I liked about it (see what I did there? Ha!)  You know those movies where teenagers...

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When the longlist for the Stella Prize - a major literary award for women's writing in Australia - was announced I immediately logged onto my library account to start requesting some of the titles. I did pretty well - about 10 days later and my loans for 4 of the fiction titles are in already! I wrote a bit last year about my...

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Gabrielle Tozer was one of the very first #loveozya authors I read as an adult (her novels The Intern and Faking It are so lovely!), AND we adore her picture book (Peas and Quiet) so when I saw she had a middle-grade title coming out I couldn't wait to get my hands on it (thanks to Harper Collins for sending me an early...

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The Mother-in-Law, the brand new novel be Melbourne writer Sally Hepworth, was near top of my list of most anticipated books for 2019. I was delighted to find a copy waiting for me when I arrived home from our holiday, and when I finally sat down to read it this week I devoured it in two short sittings. Someone once told me that...

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I was really keen to read Darry Fraser's The Widow of Ballarat after getting a taste of her writing in HQ Fiction's Christmas release Our Country Christmas (as an aside, this is one of my favourite things about those kinds of anthologies/short story collections - it is such a great way to discover new favourite authors!) 1854, Ballarat, Victoria When Nell Amberton's husband...

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