Review
This splash of books demonstrates that the vigorous publishing for the young adult market embraces subjects as varied as mental illness, bullying, sleuthing in medieval times, crime in the present, defending an occupied Australia and two dead mothers; and is written across the genres of realism, fantasy and historical fiction. But how much is enticing to the adolescent reader?
... (read more)Seduced by Grace: Contemporary spirituality, gay experience and Christian faith by Michael Bernard Kelly
by John Rickard •
Births Deaths Marriages by Georgia Blain & The After Life by Kathleen Stewart
by Shirley Walker •
An Exacting Heart: The story of Hephzibah Menuhin by Jacqueline Kent
by Peter Rose •
Roma the First: A biography of Dame Roma Mitchell by Susan Magarey and Kerry Round
by Alison Broinowski •