Books

It’s often the case that when our lives change, they change in fairly big ways. Sure, we witness incremental shifts on an almost daily basis, but that’s usually to do with small things such as a picking different café to get our coffees or walking a different way to work. Continue Reading

This book was read at Kalimna, Yeranda cottages, near Dungog in early January 2025. Stuck, as many of us lamentably often are, in a variety of fairly unchanging workplaces, the idea that we might be condemned to wandering the earth without ceasing for our entire lives might seem an attractive Continue Reading

(not final cover; courtesy Simon & Schuster Australia) SNAPSHOTIn Wynbridge, the scent of autumn is on the breeze and love is in the air… Clemmie Bennett has been renovating beautiful Rowan Cottage on the outskirts of the small town of Wynbridge, for eighteen months following a very public heartbreak back Continue Reading

This book was read at Kalimna, Yeranda cottages, near Dungog in early January 2025. Once upon a time, a certain reader devoured all of Agatha Christie’s novels in one roughly year-long go at the suggestion of his book-loving dad who saw the works of the masterful English crime writer as Continue Reading

This book was read at Kalimna, Yeranda cottages, near Dungog in early January 2025. We live in an age where endless self-empowerment and improvement have become dogma, the endless mantras of a world where you don’t stand still, you don’t stop and you don’t simply make do. It’s an endless Continue Reading

This book was read at Kalimna, Yeranda cottages, near Dungog in early January 2025. Every novel you read should, in some way or another, take you to a place far away from your own. Good or bad, this world should provide an escape from the everyday sameness of the life Continue Reading

This book was read at Kalimna, Yeranda cottages, near Dungog in early January 2025. A sense of belonging, identity and purpose is what defines us but what happens when it’s rent asunder and all we have are the vestigial rags of who we once were? That’s the great dilemma facing Continue Reading

(courtesy Hachette Australia) Back cover blurbs are written with a singular purpose in mind – to entice a reader, with thousands of reading possibilities at their bookstore-packed disposal, to pick a particular book and take it home to be read (or in the case of this reviewer, to be added Continue Reading

(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) In a great many seasonally redemptive romcoms, tragedy is usually just the curtain raiser to something good and wonderful down the track. Sure, the person’s heart is torn in two and terrible changes are wrought in the fabric of their life, but by and large, the Continue Reading