One of the great and much-loved constants of my life has been the presence of Sir David Attenborough in many of the natural world documentaries I have watched and have come to love. A man who clearly loves, champions and advocates for his very precious subject matter, who possesses a Continue Reading
Books
New releases May book review: Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth
As a reviewer who knows a metric ton of books in a year, I have come across a few “second chances” books in my time, stories which ask what might happen if socially isolated or broken people burdened by past mistakes were given the opportunity to remake their lives (deliberately Continue Reading
Book (ish) review: Star Wars: The Perfect Weapon (short story) #StarWars #Maythe4thBeWithYou
(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) One of the more enjoyable pop culture trends of recent years has been the willingness to give less iconic characters a little more time in the storytelling sun. Concomitant with this, has been an appetite for imbuing these characters, good and bad, with more humanity and Continue Reading
UPCOMING READ: As We Fall Through Time by Claire North
(courtesy Hachette Australia) SNAPSHOTFrom the multi-award-winning Claire North comes an extraordinary and epic tale of time travel, betrayal and a love that echoes through the centuries. In the beginning, the world will end. This is the story of what happens next. When Cal meets a soldier of the French Revolution, Continue Reading
Fantasy April book review: A Pirate’s Life For Tea (Tomes & Tea #2) by Rebecca Thorne
(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) “Cosy” is one those words that suggests contentment, peace, of being right with the world and nothing terrible coming to trouble those wrapped happily in its blissful cocoon. And while all of that is true, it doesn’t fully describe what happens in the delightfully titled sub-genre Continue Reading
Fantasy April book review: The Dark Lord’s Guide to Dating (and Other War Crimes) (Guides to Villainy and Love #1) by Tiffany Hunt
(courtesy Simon & Schuster Australia) One of the most sacred axioms of book buying, assuming you pay attention to such things and honestly this reviewer rarely does, is that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover (but of course we all do so sorry, not sorry). Probably up there Continue Reading
Fantasy April book review: Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan #1) by Robert Jackson Bennett
(courtesy Hachette Australia) As deaths in murder mysteries go, the one that that graphically kicks off all the fantastical sleuthing in The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett is hard to beat. That doesn’t escape the two people assigned by nervous local authorities – idiosyncratic, fiercely intelligent and socially awkward Continue Reading
We need to understand how it all began … Silo drops an intriguing teaser trailer for season 3
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTSeason 3 of Silo continues the saga of a dystopian society of 10,000 people living underground under mysterious circumstances, while revealing an origin story from centuries earlier. In the present, Juliette (Ferguson) survives her forced “cleaning” but returns with memory loss as the silo recovers from rebellion Continue Reading
Fantasy April book review: Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes Book 2) by Travis Baldree
(courtesy Pac Macmillan Australia) Prequels aren’t always a good idea. While we naturally want to know, being the endlessly curious creatures that we are, what led to the characters and places of a story we have come to love, it’s not always a satisfying journey to go on. But as Continue Reading
Fantasy April book review: The Astral Library by Kate Quinn
(courtesy Harper Collins Australia) Have you ever wanted you could live inside a book? This phrase, replete with melancholy longing and wishful hopefulness begins and ends The Astral Library by Kate Quinn, its use embodying the need many of us have had at one point or another in our lives Continue Reading