Books

  There are a great many books I remember fondly from my childhood – the rest of the Rip’d from the Pages of My Childhood series is testament to that – but there is one series in particular that I adore to this day because I fell in love with Continue Reading

    Life is a complicated thing. Anyone who has reached adulthood with life, limbs and psyche relatively intact will attest to the fact that for all its capacity for magical delight and soul-consuming wonder, life also comes with some fairly onerous demands. It’s a hard enough ask for anyone Continue Reading

  We live in a complicated, unforgiving world. You only have to take even momentary stock of current events to realise that there is a great deal wrong with the world we live in and never enough help to be found for those who need it. That’s why David M. Continue Reading

  Reading a book after watching the movie or TV show is always an interesting exercise (the same applies, but in different ways, to the reverse). Not necessarily because one will be good and one will be bad, but purely because it is always fascinating to see how two creative Continue Reading

  In so many crucial ways, people are defined by where they live. It’s not necessarily a conscious thing, although there’s strong evidence that many people gravitate to a particular place such as hippies in northern New South Wales and deliberately let it inform who they are, but it is Continue Reading

  Sporting a catchy, intriguing title that goes to the heart of an age-old scientific debate which, to be fair, science has pretty much won, John Green’s first new book in six years, Turtles All the Way Down, is due in just 7 weeks. That’s pretty exciting in and of Continue Reading

  Masculinity, like so many societal constructs, perpetually teeters on the edge of a thousand shaky assumptions. We may think we know what it is, and what it is not, but the truth is, it’s a hazily grouped together set of ideas that when put to the test, often come Continue Reading

  Grief is the enemy of many things. Forward momentum, a belief in a rosy future, creativity, laughter, renewal and rebirth, a sense that if you put one foot in front of the other, even just for a short while, it will lead somewhere meaningful. The exquisitely-wrought debut novel by Continue Reading

  The final book in the imaginatively-named Newsflesh Trilogy, in which society survives the zombie apocalypse but in a form almost unreconisable to the one we know today, Blackout is all about reunions, farewells and yes, the revealing and bringing to justice of those behind the great conspiracy that has Continue Reading

  Combining both poetic lyricism and raw emotional vulnerability, A General Theory of Oblivion explores, with poignant insight and an unwillingness to wash everything in a romanticised sheen, what it is like to take a great big step away from the human race. Through the protagonist, Ludovica Fernandes, who walls Continue Reading