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Fantasy April book review: Cinder House by Freya Marske
(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) Retellings of classic tales are often quite illuminating, revealing aspects of the original story that simply didn’t register because of the familiarity attached to their ubiquitous status. We become so used to the beats and tropes of the story, to the well-known elements that define it, Continue Reading
Fantasy April book review: Fathomfolk (The Drowned World Duology, Book 1) by Eliza Chan
(courtesy Hachette Australia) Imagination is the power source behind any great fantasy novel but as anyone who has read many books in the genre will attest, not all imaginative minds are created equal. Having just finished the gloriously clever storytelling that is Fathomfolk by Eliza Chan, it is well and Continue Reading
Fantasy April book review: The Impossible Garden of Clara Thorne by Summer N. England
(courtesy Hachette Australia) Hiding away from the world, even if it’s in plain sight, is something that anyone who has undergone trauma is very adept at doing. You may long for happy-ever-afters and a community to call your own and a life that’s buoyant and free but the truth of Continue Reading
Book review: Spring at Flora’s House by Freya North
(courtesy official Freya North site) Identity is a powerful driver for every person alive. Not all of us may acknowledge it outright, but whether we emphatically embrace the dogma of a religion, the fervency of fandom of a football team or we live and breathe artistic expression in all its Continue Reading
Easter is fun! Mini-reviews of Banjo the Hot Cross Bun, Pink Easter + Never Touch a Grumpy Bunny
(via Shutterstock) I adore kids’ books. Sure they were once upon just books to read to my nieces and nephews, but they’ve grown past books like these now, and yet, in reading them to my favourite little people, it hit me that here are some fun stories worth reading just Continue Reading
Easter book review: Easter Bunny Murder by Leslie Meier
(courtesy Penguin Random House) It would be tempting to take in the title to this book by Leslie Meier and assume that the much-loved iconic Easter Bunny has had a brain snap, a breakdown and a loss of inhibition all in one and got on an uncharacteristically bloody killing spree. Continue Reading
Book review: To the Moon and Back by Eliana Ramage
(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) If you have ever met someone possessed of singular, unwavering ambition, you will be well acquainted with how consuming that kind of focus can be. Nothing else matters to that person beyond seeing their vision realised, their life goals realised and all of the hope and Continue Reading
Book review: That Island Feeling by Karina May
(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) Heading off on holidays, all we really want is to get away from the insistent stresses and strains of everyday life. Hand us a cocktail, sit us by the pool or in a bush cabin somewhere, banish the internet to a simpler, more analogue time and Continue Reading
Book review: The Last Poem by Courtney Peppernell
(courtesy Simon & Schuster Australia) When my parents died less than four years apart in the mid-to-late 2010s, I was plunged into the kind of grief I had never really known before. And honestly, I wasn’t sure what to do with it; I expected it to be intense then ebb Continue Reading