Just So Stories

Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe

  • Making Trouble (A Good Kind of Trouble #2) – Brooke Blurton. Melanie Saward.

    Harper Collins Australia March 2026 Following up last year’s A Good Kind of Trouble, Brooke Blurton continues the journey of the Noongar girls from the bush, this time with the focus on Stella as she and Jamie head to the big smoke to continue their education under the auspices of Melbourne Indigenous College. Jamie is…

  • The Long Distance  Playlist – Tara Eglington

    Harper Collins Australia January 2020 ISBN: 9781460755211 ISBN 10: 1460755219 Imprint: HarperCollins – AU RRP: $19.99 Well if you told me I would absolutely fall in love with a YA (primarily) romantic novel I would no doubt have scoffed loudly. However, this is just delightful and so so much more than just romance. Eglington explores contemporary culture, family…

  • Illustrated Ballet Stories: by Various, illustrated by Yvonne Gilbert Nanos

    Harper Collins Australia November 2018 ISBN: 9781474922050 ISBN 10: 1474922058 Imprint: Usborne – GB RRP: $29.99 When I was pretty small – probably around my 6th birthday I was given the very beautiful The Splendour Book of Ballet and loved it. I was a little dancer but it was more than that. It was the beautiful narratives and…

  • Christmas is Coming…

    And it would always be incomplete without The Nutcracker. Two beautiful new books celebrate 200 years since the first publication of Hoffman’s story and the exquisite 1954 rendition of the ballet from George Balanchine for the New York City Ballet. The Nutcracker – Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann Illustrated by Robert Ingpen Walker Books ISBN: 9781922244550 Imprint: Walker Books…