Books

(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Growing isn’t easy at the best of times, but it becomes even darkly and challengingly problematic when the person doing the growing up is doing in the very late 1970s in northeast England at a time when the Yorkshire Ripper is terrorising a fearful populace with Continue Reading

(courtesy Ultimo Press) Diving into any book comes with certain expectations – there will be a beginning and an end, a middle that connects them both in ways that are emotionally fulfilling and intellectually satisfying, and there will be characters you come to care deeply about, people (and not; this Continue Reading

(courtesy Hachette Australia) Humanity, for all its curiosity and insightfulness, is not that good, by and large, at seeing anything that doesn’t sit well within its established physical frames of reference. Thus, while we happily explore the implications of a multiverse, which has its roots in actual physics, we tend Continue Reading

(courtesy Simon & Schuster Australia) If you have ever experienced the true cataclysmic abyss of grief, you will know, all too painfully, how completely it consumes you. You often have no choice but to get on with life but the truth is, for a good long while (let’s be honest, Continue Reading

(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) If you think the only place you will find generous amount of narrative humanity is in a book solely about actual people, then the Murderbot series by Martha Wells will have you thinking again. The first entry in the series, which kicked off in 2017, All Continue Reading

(courtesy Harper Collins Australia) Unless you’ve grown in the church, it’s near impossible to fully appreciate just how all that corrosively twisted dogma can seep into your mind, heart and soul and turn your nice and healthy nascent humanity into something that looks like Eton Mess (a deliciously chaotic English Continue Reading

(courtesy Pantera Press) Life can be a LOT much of the time. And that doesn’t always meaning you have a surfeit of something; often and rather ironically and perversely, it can be the sheer absence of something that can feel like a multitudinous weight upon your shoulder and weigh you Continue Reading

(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) This novel will be published by Angry Robot Books on 23 April 2024 in U.K. and by Penguin Books Australia on 30 July 2024. Grief, as many of us know, can be a dark and terrifying place. Suddenly so much of what we know and loved, Continue Reading