(courtesy Harper Collins Publishers) SNAPSHOTIs a new beginning waiting for her this Christmas? When Imogen leaves her fiancé at the altar and escapes to her grandmother’s cottage by the sea, the only thing she wants to do is disappear. But in a village curious about their new arrival, Imogen finds Continue Reading
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Book review: Tenderfoot by Toni Jordan
(courtesy IMP Awards) We all know growing up is tough. But for some people growing up is even tougher, with a bewildering array of issues to navigate and circumstances to survive, and no real emotional support to get through it all. Just how daunting it can be is explored with Continue Reading
Book review: Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson
(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) I know you are not supposed to judge a book by its cover; but what its title? What if it’s so quirky and full of promise with a tagline that says “The hardest murder to solve is your own”? Well then you scoop it up, head Continue Reading
Book review: Terms of Service by Ciel Pierlot
(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) ARC courtesy Angry Robot Books – release date 23 September 2025 in UK and 28 October 2025 in Australia. One of the things I love about reading sci-fi/fantasy is endlessly and imaginatively expansive it can be. You could likely say that about any genre, but there’s Continue Reading
Book review: The Wolf Who Cried Boy by Mark Mupotsa-Russell
(courtesy Affirm Press) The world is full, sagely observes a quote lifted onto the back cover of The Wolf Who Cried Boy by Mark Mupotsa-Russell, of magic and monsters. Those words simultaneously delight and terrify, and they capture the brilliantly evocative duality of this novel which takes you into the Continue Reading
The art and fun of Wallace the Brave: Watch creator Will Henry bring a Sunday strip to playfully colourful life
(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
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