Happy Love Your Bookshop Day everyone! If you are like me, you love your bookshop every day and the books you get there with immense affection, but today is a day when you can shower love, praise and enduring pleasure upon the good people who put up with a lot Continue Reading
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I am an extrovert gay man living in Sydney who loves Indian food, current affairs, music, film and reading, caramel anything, and a beautiful guy called Steve who makes every day a delight. I am trying to get two novels in a trilogy ready for e-publication, love my iPhone & iPod, and am secretly Canadian in my soul. Life is fun, exciting and joyful and I aim to make the absolute most of it!
Comics review: Crowded (TP 1 & 2) by Sebela / Stein / Brandt / Farrell / Rae
There is no greater joy than plunging into a highly-regarded series of any kind, but in this case a graphic novel, and finding that it’s not just as good as everyone says but quite possibly even better. Eisner-nominated Crowded from Image comics, which has now been collected into two gorgeously-presented Continue Reading
Book review: The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
Belonging somewhere, truly belonging somewhere, is a powerful thing. It can provide the kind of safety and security of which adventurous, well-lived lives are made, it allows us to explore and express who we are without fear of sanction or condemnation, and it instils a sense of shared humanity through Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs: My current 5 fave video clips – Rejjie Snow, Jessie Ware, Astrid S, Reyko, Paradis + #Eurovision update
Video clips are a brilliant way to promote a song. If the artist can’t be where you are, and let’s face it that’s more often the case than not given the burdensome constraints of corporeality, they are the perfect means of bringing the artist to you. Not at all video Continue Reading
Movie review: David Attenborough – A Life On Our Planet
For a species that has been around for a good 300,000 years or so in various evolutionary iterations, humanity has an astonishingly short attention span and an almost alarming inability to see beyond the immediate. You could argue that entirely the opposite is the case, using as your examples the Continue Reading
Weekday pop art: If all the fictional world was Polly Pocket
SNAPSHOTNowadays kids have iPads, Netflix, and the Internet to keep them entertained. But back in the 90s, there were few things more exciting than getting hold of the latest Polly Pocket. To recreate that feeling for 2020, our team has imagined what would happen if Polly Pocket decided to ‘do Continue Reading
Movie review: The Broken Hearts Gallery
The rom-com is dead! Long live the rom-com! As genres go, romantic comedies have been deemed to have lost all signs of life more times than a heartsick man or woman has rushed to the airport at the last minute in a blind, desperate panic, eager to tell their one Continue Reading
Book review: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
As 2020 has demonstrated with almost devilish glee, life is a LOT. While it can be gloriously uplifting and fulfilling and loving and rich with endless possibility, it can also feel like the entire weight of the world upon you, a disappointment so raw and gargantuan that coping with it Continue Reading
Movie review: Enola Holmes
It is a rare and wonderful thing indeed to walk away from a film feeling as if the world is a little brighter for having seen it. But that is precisely what happens to you as take in the convention-busting delights of Enola Holmes, newly-arrived on Netflix and based on Continue Reading
A mini-mass of movie trailers: Over the Moon, Ghabe, David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
A mixed bag this time, with an animated feature, a thoughtful indie drama and a documentary from an icon of the natural world on the slate. If you look closer, all of them share one very important quality – the need and longing for a better world, something that all Continue Reading