Trauma has its own corrosive way of stopping life in its tracks. For many people it is a transitory thing, a period of loss and grieving that immobilises them temporarily but which eventually gives way to some form of healing and tentative then more confident steps forward to something new Continue Reading

There is a power and resilience, and yes, even a verdant sense of hope to Emily Spurr’s debut novel, A Million Things, that will leave you in wonder at the immense capacity of connection, friendship and love to rescue a lonely and adrift life … or two of them. But Continue Reading

For a species that craves certainty, humanity sure has an enduring fascination with the enduring endlessness of mystery and suspense. Perhaps now that we are mostly, pandemics and their wrathful disruption aside, snug and safe within the clearly-set bounds of civilisation – sure it’s an illusion of substance and assuredness Continue Reading

Diving into any of Becky Chambers wondrously good books is to enter a literal universe of rich possibility and exquisitely well-realised humanity (even when the characters are anything but) that engages you from the get-go and doesn’t let you go until the very end of each thoughtfully-written and insightfully emotive Continue Reading