Books

(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

(courtesy Hachette Australia) There is a sumptuously imaginative expansiveness to science fiction which, if you’re willing to surrender to it, can take you to places and times and worlds so wildly out there that you gasp at the fact that this came from someone’s mind and feel so beautifully, almost Continue Reading

(courtesy Affirm Press) One of the happy lies we like to tell ourselves is that life as we have it right now is the best version of life it can be. It often isn’t and we know it deep down but either it’s too hard to change things or we Continue Reading

(courtesy 47North) For the idealists amongst us, there is a seductive idea out there that the only way for humanity is up, and up and UP. No backward steps, no regression, no evolutionary slips down the hill from whence we came; it’s all forward towards better things and more progressive Continue Reading

(read at Pindari cabin, Yeranda Cottages, Dungog, 2-9 January 2024) he world, it is often observed (accurately or not) into two groups – dog people or cat people. You are, it is opined one or the other, and thus shall you will for the rest of your life. Regardless of Continue Reading

(read at Pindari cabin, Yeranda Cottages, Dungog, 2-9 January 2024) There was once a boy whose entire life was defined not by the good things in his life, and they were there in the form of a loving family, a rich engagement with learning and an overall garrulous love of Continue Reading