Category Archives: Days Like This

This review is from Kate at Reading Marathon Reviews http://readingmarathonreviews.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/review-days-like-this-by-alison-stewart.html Tuesday, 27 March 2012 Review: Days Like This by Alison Stewart   I was extremely excited about this book since A. It’s set in Australia, B. It is similar to … Continue reading →

I was interested to read Elizabeth Braithwaite’s recent paper on the complex issues of guilt and responsibility in young adult texts that deal with environmental disaster. The paper, published in Barnboken Journal of Children’s Literature Research Volume 35 (2012) and titled “The hope … Continue reading →

Kate reviewed Days Like This on her website, The Young Contemporaries, on March 27, 2012. Thank you Kate for your positive review. Here’s some of it: “I was extremely excited about this book since A. It’s set in Australia, B. … Continue reading →

Days Like This, my young adult dystopian novel set in Sydney, is now available on Kindle, for those readers outside Australia who have asked. Days Like This was a finalist in the 2010 YA Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and Penguin Australia … Continue reading →

I wish! But you never know. Melissa at “Spellbound by Books” has nominated Days Like This, along with Rachel Caine’s Morganville Vampires and Glass Houses as her Books from 2011 “that would make the best movie (December 24, 2011:  http://www.spellboundbybooks.com/2011/12/faves-of-twentyeleven-books.html) Melissa … Continue reading →

Published Wednesday, January 11, 2012: “This book has grabbed me from the first word, and pulled me into the pages of its world, where New South Wales is no longer a beautiful city, but two worlds separated by a wall. … Continue reading →

Fran Knight’s review of Days Like This was published on January 10, 2012: “Recommended. Dystopian thriller. From the cover blurb, ‘As the world grows older, it’s dangerous being young’, the reader knows that they are in for a treat, a … Continue reading →

Bookblogger’s recommendations: outstanding YA fiction 2010-11* Shirvington, Jessica. Embrace, Enticed and Emblaze (series; Emblaze released 2011 Hachette Australia) Crowley, Cath. Graffiti Moon (Pan Macmillan Australia 2010) Hart, Rhiannon. Blood Song (Random House, 2011) Foster, Rose. The Industry (not yet released) … Continue reading →

Delighted to see Days Like This among Alpha Reader’s “Favourite Books of 2011″ on her December 4 blog. Have a look: http://alphareader.blogspot.com/2011/12/favourite-books-of-2011.html  Writes Alpha Reader, generously” “I loved this book, not least because Stewart put Australia on the Dystopia map! In this … Continue reading →

Here’s Chloe Mauger’s review of Days Like This in the November 1, 2011 issue of Reading Time (the quarterly journal published by the Children’s Book Council of Australia):  “Set in a dystopian future after global warming has led to the surviving wealthy families of … Continue reading →