Cirrus@Austlit

'Jon spoke to Nathania Gilson about radio-making, paying attention, and complicating the act of storytelling.' 

'When faced with tricky life-or-death decisions, the preteens of Australian graphic novel series Home Time don’t tread lightly or seek parental approval: as one of them says, “Now’s the time to ruin everything by doing something totally awesome.” These characters exist in the same plane as Bearded Dragons and rings of white fire, though, so the rules as we know them don’t apply in the fictional world created by Perth-born comics-maker and illustrator Campbell Whyte.' (Publication summary)

'The unnamed narrator of Madeleine Watts’ debut novel is an emergency dispatch phone operator. She’s spending her last year in Sydney making bad decisions: drinking too much, sleeping with the wrong men, wanting to escape overseas but seduced by the hourly rate of shift work and bearing witness to a national climate emergency. Her life is a freight train hurtling towards panic stations.' (Introduction)

'Nathania Gilson asks publishers and booksellers about the art of rejacketing a children's book series.' (Introduction)