Whenever you pick up a book, the hope, always springing eternal, is that this will be a read that will touch you deeply on some level. After all, what is a book if it doesn’t whisk you off to other realms or peer incisively into your soul, or at the Continue Reading
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UPCOMING READS: Under Fortunate Stars by Ren Hutchings
SNAPSHOTTwo Ships. One Chance To Save The Future. Fleeing the final days of the generations-long war with the alien Felen, smuggler Jereth Keeven’s freighter the Jonah breaks down in a strange rift in deep space, with little chance of rescue—until they encounter the research vessel Gallion, which claims to be Continue Reading
Book review: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
There are a great many novels out there that explore the idea of a multiverse, or at least the idea of alternate realities or time shifts, and which do so in a way that is often imaginative, compelling and fantastically immersively readable. The new novel by Emily St. John Mandel Continue Reading
UPCOMING READS: The retold power of myth in Ithaca by Claire North
SNAPSHOTThis is the story of Penelope of Ithaca, famed wife of Odysseus, as it has never been told before. Beyond Ithaca’s shores, the whims of gods dictate the wars of men. But on the isle, it is the choices of the abandoned women—and their goddesses—that will change the course of Continue Reading
Book review: The Secret World of Connie Starr by Robbi Neal
The Secret World of Connie Starr releases 1 June 2022; ARC courtesy NetGalley. If you cast your mind back quite some decades, specifically the middle swathe of the twentieth century, your overwhelming impression is of impressively impervious social cohesion and conformity, bolstered by church and state in resolute lockstep and Continue Reading
Happy Easter reading kids! Time to tuck into We’re Going on an Egg Hunt, The Great Eggscape! and Mr. Impossible and the Easter Egg Hunt
Easter is all kinds of colourful, eggs-citing fun! Kids, most of all, love heading out for time with friends and family and embarking on Easter egg hunts which can be quick or slow but which are never ever dull. The theme of these three gorgeous books is how good it Continue Reading
UPCOMING READS: The “poetic ferocity” of Annalee Newitz’s The Terraformers
SNAPSHOTDestry is a top network analyst with the Environmental Rescue Team, an ancient organization devoted to preventing ecosystem collapse. On the planet Sask-E, her mission is to terraform an Earthlike world, with the help of her taciturn moose, Whistle. But then she discovers a city that isn’t supposed to exist, Continue Reading
Book review: Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
People like to think that, above all else, they know their family well. In a world where a great many other things will disappoint, horrify or surprise, we can be assured, so we tell ourselves, that we know the ins and out of family members, for better or worse, especially Continue Reading
Book review: Her Fierce Creatures by Maria Lewis
Over a series of eight immersively engaging novels, all set in the same shared paranormal universe – think Marvel but with way more werewolves, sprites and immortal beings – Maria Lewis has told the story of empowered supernatural women reshaping the world in an image which is far more just, Continue Reading
Book review: The Island Home by Libby Page
There is pain in life that starts so early, cuts so deep, and leaves such a long-lasting, festering wound that we wonder if we will truly ever get over it. Our responses to such pervasively terrible wounding vary but the truth of the matter is, facing up to the pain Continue Reading