Books

(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) It’s such a delight to come across a sci-fi tale that completely delights and engrosses you with its originality, thoughtfulness, wit & verve and rich characterisation, that when you do stumble across it, it feels like all your reading Christmases have come at once. Such was Continue Reading

(courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) All of us, to some extent or another, come to appreciate through the course of our lives just how the present owes to the past. It’s not simply that one leads to the other though that is very much a part of what takes place Continue Reading

(courtesy Hachette Australia) Jumping without looking into a reasonably long-running series of books does not always end well. If the author is skilled and accomplished, they will do a marvellously good job of folding you into an already established world, getting you up to speed with who the main character/s Continue Reading

(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) While doomscrolling through social media is generally a compulsive activity with few, if any, productive outcomes, it can sometimes, algorithms be damned, offer up some real gems. Such as coming across a fellow book lover on Bluesky who is waxing lyrical about the books of Malka Continue Reading

(courtesy Hachette Australia) Any good book worth its narrative, world-building salt should be able to hold immersively entranced through every page and exciting twist-and-turn. But some books are created more equal than others in this regard, and Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear, the first book in her White Space series, Continue Reading

(courtesy Allen & Unwin Book Publishers) Books that subvert expectations are quite possibly the very best kind. When you first pick up The Dead Friend Project by Joanna Wallace, you might be struck by the quirkiness of the titlenand even the taglines on the front cover and atop the back Continue Reading