(courtesy official Will Henry Twitter/X account (c) Will Henry/Go Comics) Wallace the Brave, which flows from the imaginatively whimsical hand of Will Henry, is of those unicorn comic strips that has it all. Set in the archetypal New England town of Snug Harbor [sic], the strip follows the adventures of Continue Reading
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Book review: June in the Garden by Eleanor Wilde
(courtesy Text Publishing) We all crave a place to belong. There’s an innate drive to find our tribe, our people which defines all of us, with the presence of whatever we know as family enriching us and its absence impoverishing and isolating in ways innumerable. In short, we need companions Continue Reading
Book review: The Best Way to Bury a Husband by Alexia Casale
Comedy, if you’re not paying attention, might look for all the world like a rip-roaring fun fair of ephemerally hilarious nothing, there one amusing minute and gone the more soberly serious next. But in the hands of someone who truly knows what they’re doing, a richly comedic story can wield Continue Reading
Book review: The Life of Chuck by Stephen King
(courtesy Hachette Australia) Like many other people, I am well acquainted with Walt Hitman’s immortal line “I contain multitudes”, taken from his poem “Song of Myself, 51”. It is one of those popularly understood but not always fully ruminated on lines that resonate with people, even if many of us Continue Reading
Book review: Strange New Worlds: The High Country by John Jackson Miller
(courtesy Simon & Schuster Australia) I am not one of those consumers of books and movies and TV shows that recoils in horror whenever a story or a set of characters which originated in one medium make the leap to another. In fact, watching these people or a much enjoyed Continue Reading
Book review: Clarke by Holly Throsby
(courtesy Allen & Unwin Book Publishers) Connection is the heart and soul of the human condition. It gives us a sense of place and time and often identity, of feeling as we matter because we love and we are loved back; but for all the good things that come our Continue Reading
Looking ahead: Wicked for Good featurette promises a wild and unbridled story
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT“You’re the only friend I ever had…” The final chapter of the untold story of the witches of Oz begins with Elphaba and Glinda estranged and living with the consequences of their choices. Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), now demonized [sic] as The Wicked Witch of the West, lives Continue Reading
Book review: Ghosted by Amy Hutton
(courtesy Simon & Schuster) Passion projects are always a delight to read. There’s something about a novel that an author has long held close to their heart that reads with extra vivacity, reflecting a prevailing love of genre or storytelling style that has had to be put aside for other Continue Reading
The world keeps spinning … the threat evolves on Invasion S3 trailer
(courtesy First Showing (c) AppleTV+) SNAPSHOTInvasion follows an alien invasion through different perspectives around the world. In season three, those perspectives collide for the first time, as all the main characters are brought together to work as a team on a critical mission to infiltrate the alien mothership. The ultimate Continue Reading
Book review: The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses (Mossa & Pleiti book #3) by Malka Older
(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) Arriving at the third book in any series is a thing of quiet and fulfilling joy. You have had two books to be introduced and get to know the main characters, to be come familiarised with the world in which they love and to understand the Continue Reading