Books

  Grief does strange things to people. And try as we might to predict how we will react in circumstances of great loss, you don’t really know how you will cope, or not cope as the case maybe, until the time comes. In the case of Arthur Pepper, the protagonist Continue Reading

(cover via Hachette Australia)   Dreams are often seen as an ephemeral part of life. Necessary yes, for without them where would we draw hope, or be motivated to push beyond ourselves and achieve great things, but hardly the root stock of existence, a necessity for a full and complete Continue Reading

  Adversity often strikes us when we are least expecting it. That’s largely because our natural tendency, the Eeyores among us not withstanding, is to hope for the very best, to let hope spring eternal until such time as it becomes abundantly clear that it has no intention of rewarding Continue Reading

  Joel McHale is a very funny man. Blessed with model-handsome good looks and spot-on comic timing, he has gifted us with humourous performances as Jeff Winger in Community, and 11 years of amusingly satirical hosting of The Soup (2004 – 2015). And now, in keeping with the man’s gifted Continue Reading

  Jason Dessen has it all. Well, almost everything. He hasn’t even come closing to realising the impressive potential he showed at university as one of the most promising astro-physicists to come along in years, a man destined for great things. But while that nags at him, and he wonders Continue Reading

  No matter how well-educated we might be, all of us have a tendency, to  a greater or lesser degree, to interpret other cultures, peoples’ situations or even ancient civilisations through the lens of our modern worldview. We might have all the facts or evidence we need at hand but Continue Reading

  Guylain Vignolles, blighted by a name that in French is uncomfortably close to a spoonerism, Vilain Guignol or Ugly Puppet, is a 36 year old man astride two worlds. By day he works at a book-pulping factory, overseen by “Fatso”, the corpulent supervisor of the plant, where is in charge of Continue Reading

  In almost every respect Simon Spier is your typical American 16 year old. He’s popular but not too popular, dabbles in drama productions at school where he sits with a motley array of old friends, jocks and new arrivals at lunch, has lifelong friends in Nick and Leah, a Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT We never saw them coming. Entire cities disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving nothing but dust and rubble. When an alien race came to make Earth theirs, they brought with them a weapon we had no way to fight, a universe-altering force known as thelemity. It Continue Reading