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If you are part of a marginalised community, any marginalised community, you will all too painfully how much the mainstream abhors non-adherence to orthodoxy. People who simply want to be authentically and honestly themselves are treated like some of personal abomination, an affront to some weirdly collective idea of what Continue Reading

How you react to a given situation says a lot about who you are as a person. In Stina Leicht’s evocatively intense novel, Persephone Station, set in the future when humanity has colonised the stars to good and bad effect, depending on where you stand in society or if you’re Continue Reading

If you ask most people, especially inveterate readers for whom books hold an almost mystically romantic quality, working in a bookstore would have to be the best of all possible worlds. The people who work there talk highly about the merits and rewards of helping books and people make happily Continue Reading

There is something breathtakingly wondrous about being plunged into a whole new fantastical world, especially one as expansively and vividly realised as that in Stacey McEwan’s debut novel, Ledge, the first entry in The Glacian Trilogy. While the title might be taut and sparing in its use of letters, the Continue Reading

Despite all its lustrous, wondrously glittering possibility, life has a way sometimes, or much of the time if it has dealt you more than a few harsh blows, of feeling like it’s done as much as it’s going to do. That doesn’t necessarily mean you have given up on life; Continue Reading