Books

  You have to admire any author who plunges into the well-travelled waters of genre literature, particularly when it concerns mutants, often held aloft as humanity’s possible evolutionary future and the subject of many a graphic novel or film series. But Australian author Lynette Noni, who is best known for Continue Reading

  Romantic comedies are one of those cinematic genres that the cool people of the world love to rain hate and scorn down upon. Possessed, you must assume, of love lives so magnificently perfect and satisfying that Cupid himself looks on with rose-ripped envy, they look disdainfully at films which Continue Reading

  It is tempting to think of a whimsically-inclined title such as The Unlikely Heroics of Sam Holloway as a jaunty, appealingly-idiosyncratic journey through the highs and lows of life with a young Englishman whose unorthodox approach to life and decidedly non-mainstream experiences lead to a glowingly-happy end at which Continue Reading

  Lauren Graham is one of my favourite people in the world. I say this quite confidently though I have never met her nor conversed with her at length on social media – nothing says I know you well than an almighty long Twitter thread these days right? – it’s Continue Reading

  Human beings are an innately communal species. It’s one of the things that define us – our need to not simply be in close proximity to our fellow women and men but to know them, laugh with them, drink and eat with them, and above all, profoundly connect with Continue Reading

  I believe it was those pop sages ABBA who once intoned in one of their marvellously-attractive songs that “Love isn’t Easy (But It Sure is Hard Enough)”. A perfect mix of early ’70s folk-pop, Swedish harmonies and life truisms doesn’t feature anywhere in The Book Ninja by Ali Berg Continue Reading

  I love reading books. Losing myself in books, long and short, big and small, has been a passion of time since I can remember but even I have to admit it’s well near impossible to read everything (not that I don’t give it a red hot go!). Riding to Continue Reading

  Jenny Ebert is not even remotely comfortable in her own skin. That much is apparent from the get-go in The Lonely Hearts Cinema Club, the latest book from David M. Barnett (Calling Major Tom) in which the film nerd who won’t accept she’s a film nerd – she loves Continue Reading

  When the cover of a book proclaims it’s Romeo & Juliet meets Mad Max meets X-Men with a little bit of Blade Runner cheering from the headlines” it’s either got a healthy sense of what makes it work so well or its hopelessly derivative and is hoping that bringing Continue Reading