Books

One of the biggest genres in book publishing at the moment is what you could loosely called redemptive literature. Often inspirational and heartwarming in all the right places, the genre offers a chance for growth and change in a world where that is not always where a realistic option and Continue Reading

Most of the time, a road trip is am exciting thing, redolent with the promise of adventure, of time away from the everyday and the banal and perhaps a surprise or two tucked in there among the food and petrol stops and the kilometres ticking by at a rate of Continue Reading

Diving headfirst into a novel that promises escapism writ large is one of the best self-care things you can do for yourself. Most especially when you have an author John Scalzi at the helm who freely admits, with a refreshing honesty that is gloriously uplifting in its intent, that his Continue Reading

Healing from grief is a thousand kinds of awful, awkward, strange and desperately, disorientingly uncertain. In a landscape where many of the old certainties of life are gone, and a chaotic jumble of previously unknown feelings and experiences have taken their place, it’s entirely fair to say that there is Continue Reading

It is generally agreed that every book worth its captivating storytelling novel needs a damn good protagonist, someone who may not be perfect but who is able to drive things forward, get things done and hopefully end up suitably well-changed by the time the narrative draws to a satisfying close. Continue Reading

Every family has its secrets. Some are earth shattering, some most assuredly not, but all of them are held close to the chest of their keeper/s for fear of what they could do to the family itself and to those outside looking in, who seldom let a sound perspective or Continue Reading

It’s time to get your Maple on! Or is that Marple? It is, in fact, Marple, but in the gloriously funny sleuthing world of loaded-to-the-gills heiress Indigo-Daisy-Violet-Amber-Hasluck-Royce-Jones-Bombberg, what passes for classic detective work, and classic detectives of the Agatha Christie kind for that matter, are played fast and loose with Continue Reading

SNAPSHOTEddie Robson’s Drunk on All Your Strange New Words is a locked room mystery in a near future world of politics and alien diplomacy. Lydia works as translator for the Logi cultural attaché to Earth. They work well together, even if the act of translating his thoughts into English makes Continue Reading

The idea of alternative timelines where the less than ideal outcomes of our reality find an altogether, hopefully better (though not always) realisation is a seductive one. As a species, humanity is a sucker for the possibility of things being different elsewhere, and it’s why ideas like the multiverse are Continue Reading