Books

(courtesy Hachette Australia) There is something breathtakingly thrilling about opening a sci-fi novel by an author you’ve never read before and finding an opening paragraph that sets the scene so vividly that in less than a quarter of a page you’re immediately thrust into a world and a story that Continue Reading

(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) If you’ve read even one book in what could loosely but quite accurately be called the Cosy Redemption genre, in which a person whose life is way less wondrously good than it could be finds healing and a second chance, you will be well aware that Continue Reading

(courtesy Penguin Books) SNAPSHOTExplore EXODUS, a new sci-fi action-adventure RPG coming soon from Archetype Entertainment featured in this epic novel from legendary author Peter F. Hamilton. Forty thousand years ago, humanity fled a dying Earth. Traveling in massive arkships, these brave pioneers spread out across the galaxy to find a Continue Reading

(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Belonging to a community, to a group of people who give a damn about you, is one of the sublime, and you could well argue, necessary delights of being human. It grounds us, give us purpose and most importantly makes us feel as if we are Continue Reading

(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) The world can be a scary, messy and wildly unpredictable place, and while we can’t always run, for any length of reasonable time anyway, from the things that haunt and scare us, we can seek temporary solace in happy places of our choosing. One of the Continue Reading

(courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) There are romantic comedies, and then there are ROMANTIC COMEDIES (and, no, the demarcation does not lie in using all-caps alone). The greater difference, and one readily apparent in the superlative effort that is Just One Taste by Lizzy Dent, is the way in which Continue Reading

(courtesy Starlit Publishing) When is a restaurant far more than eating (hopefully) great food in a public setting? When it takes places at The Nameless Restaurant, the eponymous establishment in Tao Wong’s arrestingly involving novella which takes us to a mysterious place which offers far more than just very good Continue Reading

(courtesy Simon & Schuster Australia) The Fog was provided as a digital ARC ahead of its release on 4 September in Australia. The slow creep of horror that accompanies gothic thrillers is one of the reasons this particular genre is so widely read. There is something strangely enticing about reading Continue Reading

(courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) What a liberating read Lucky Day by Beth Morrey is! All of us, to greater or lesser extent, live ourselves constrained by a host of weird little social paradigms, spoken or unspoken rules by which we are allowed to act, speak or react, and while Continue Reading