This issue of Review of Australian Fiction includes the first chapter of When Rosie Met Jim by Melina Marchetta and a short story by Kathryn Baker called Shoeboxes which is a psychological thriller.
This issue of Review of Australian Fiction includes the first chapter of When Rosie Met Jim by Melina Marchetta and a short story by Kathryn Baker called Shoeboxes which is a psychological thriller.

Hi! I’m Kathryn and I wrote the young adult novel, In the Skin of a Monster. If you’re a stickler for trivia, then you should also know that I hate shopping, believe that the number 11 is lucky, always overcook chicken, never skip to the end of a book, have won a chilli-eating competition, sneeze at the sun, was born in Canberra, am a terrible singer, am awesome at karaoke, don’t believe in umbrellas, know the first 20 elements of the periodic table, have a phobia about one particular insect, live in Sydney, was named after a pet dog, pass-out out in extreme cold, would set my time-machine to ‘forward’, can’t watch scary movies, am inexplicably proud of my blood group, have smallish feet, suck at dancing, sometimes suffer from insomnia, once worked in a food van, prefer the first page of a good book to the last page of a good book, am weirdly confident about getting car-parks, started primary school in Tokyo, finished high school in Olympia (aka that rainy place where Twilight was set), think that sweet breakfasts are revolting, was once a lawyer, love the smell of newspapers, placed second-last in a corporate triathalon, bite my nails when I’m writing but not when I’m nervous, am a teensy bit superstitious, once unwittingly put coins from a funeral pyre in my mouth, hum Christmas carols when I’m happy, own precisely three things that I love, believe there’s a right way and a wrong way to make Laksa, have two equally favourite colours… and am addicted to young adult fiction.