If you’ve been alive for longer than a day, it will have become dispiritingly obvious that do-overs or second-go-rounds are not exactly thick on the existential ground. Even the much-vaunted concept of closure seems maddeningly elusive much of the time, with mistakes and regrets irreversible and what-ifs purely the stuff Continue Reading

ARC courtesy Angry Robot Books – release date 8 February 2022 in UK and 22 March 2022 in Australia. How can you possibly resist a book which winningly pitches itself as the story of a lesbian gunslinger who fights spies in space? Reader, you cannot, and honestly, why would you Continue Reading

Life can be incredibly, disorientingly and emotionally destructively cruel. That might not be immediately apparent to anyone with a reasonably cushy middle class existence in a plush Western liberal democracy, but for many people the stark, horrifying reality is that their hopes and dreams often take a distant back seat Continue Reading

Growing up in a place where your lived experience is not part of the mainstream is daunting indeed. It becomes even more pronounced in rural areas where the lack of anonymity provided by the diversity hustle and bustle of the big city leaves many people exposed and open to ridicule, Continue Reading

Having your heart ripped out of you and then placed back in again may not be at the top of everyone’s list of great things to do in your mortal waking hours. But when you are reading the transcendentally affecting delight that is TJ Klune’s (The House in the Cerulean Continue Reading