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(courtesy Simon & Schuster UK) In his atmospherically-titled novel, The Betrayal Of Thomas True, A. J. West manages a rare and enthrallingly intense double feat. He delivers up a epically tense mystery, a race of one man to uncover the spy who has betrayed the “mollies” of 1715 London, often Continue Reading

(courtesy Hachette Australia) One of my reading happy places, and as an eclectic reader there are many, is when a writer combines books and love in one beautifully realised package. There’s something about the idea of a rom-com which is all about books and writing that sets the pulse racing Continue Reading

(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