Books

  Getting older, as with most things in life, is a double-edged sword. For all the wisdom accrued and knowledge secreted away there are aches without number and ailments without number; every longstanding friendship is matched with the disappointment and loss of a relationship lost to enmity or mortality, every Continue Reading

  Diving into a book by Australian author Maria Lewis is a guarantee that you will be plunged, with well-researched vigour, emotional resonance and palpable love and familiarity with the supernatural, into a world vary different from the everyday world we encounter. Each of her books to date, which incorporate Continue Reading

  We all love a good treasure hunt. Even more so when it involves lost and fabled treasures from the distant past which thanks to ever more expansively-hyperbolic storytelling have taken on an aura so captivating that the very idea of them gets our collective pulse racing with only the Continue Reading

  I just had the loveliest time sitting down and talking with Kimmy Schmidt. Having devoured every available episode of her, naturally, autobiographical, post-being trapped inside a bunker by a pedophilic cult leader sitcom – yep, that’s the premise and it works like a charm, an hilarious mix of quirky Continue Reading

  One of the curiously unexpected aspects of deep and prolonged grief is an unnerving sense of becoming unmoored from your life. One minute all the touchstones are in place, the things that give your life a sense of time, place and meaning, and the next? One crucial piece is Continue Reading

  If life had a damn good PR team, and it does in a way if you pay any attention to the glass-half-full, carpe diem, bluebird of happiness souls of the world, they would be constantly rabbiting on, with Hallmark-esque gleeful abandon about the limitless possibilities it offers. It’s a Continue Reading

  People, by and large, place a great deal of faith in first impressions. They are an unofficial yardstick by which the worth of a person is judged and we cling them as social markers like a drowning man holding tenaciously to a buoy. But it becomes quickly apparent in Continue Reading

  Deep with all of us there is a void in this shape of whatever it is we most crave, need or want. Not all of us will admit it’s there of course, or if we do, be largely aware of the shape it takes, but it is there nonetheless, Continue Reading