Woolshed Press
Maya Linden reviews 'Are You Seeing Me?' by Darren Groth and 'The Minnow' by Diana Sweeney
Maya Linden
Monday, 01 September 2014
At its greatest, literature offers us the opportunity to see the world through the eyes of someone else; at its most inviting, through a character whose experience could be our own; at its most powerful, through a view of existence that differs vastly, even frighteningly, from ours. The latter is explored in these two new works of Young Adult fiction that show us intensely ‘other’ ways of seeing.
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Published in
September 2014, no. 364
It’s the early 1980s in Melbourne. Shelley, aged fourteen, is obsessed with football. Discussions of the game are the one point of mutual interest that allows communication between Shelley and her father in the aftermath of the death of her mother.
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Published in
September 2013, no. 354
Mike Shuttleworth reviews 'Slice: Juicy Moments from My Impossible Life' by Steven Herrick
Mike Shuttleworth
Wednesday, 08 June 2011
In the Young Adult novel Slice: Juicy Moments from My Impossible Life, you will meet Darcy Pele Franz Walker, a boy named after famous international footballers, but one who has no interest in the game... ... (read more)
Published in
December 2010–January 2011, no. 327