First published in Australian Book Review September 2003 Justin D’Ath 
Infamous, Archimedes Fusillo
 An Earful of Static, Sue Lawson Ferret Boy, Kierin Meehan
 Night Singing Kierin Meehan’s Hannah’s Winter was one of the most promising débuts in some time. Her second novel, the ambitious Night Singing, attests to Meehan’s importance as a new writer for the…

I’ve always thought of the years between nine and twelve to be a kind of “golden age” of reading, and yet for at least the past decade, some of the loudest grumblings about contemporary Australian children’s publishing have been about the dearth of substantial, complex and challenging literature for this readership. Program notes for a…

Secret Scribbled Notebooks by Joanne Horniman Published in Viewpoint: On Books for Young Adults vol. 12 no. 3 Spring 2004 The title of Joanne Horniman’s Secret Scribbled Notebooks comes from Jack Kerouac ‘s “Rules of Modern Prose” from Good Blonde and Others. The full quote refers to “secret scribbled notebooks and wild typewritten pages, for your…