Books

When it comes to life, we always have the best of intentions. We’re going to carpe diem, triumph over the odds, find success and happiness in multitudinous quantities and prove to all the naysayers from our past that we have what it takes, and then some. It’s a glowing, exciting Continue Reading

Life rarely works out quite like we plan it, does it? Oh, we have grand and vaulting plans when we’re young, a time when we expect that our adult decades will be all self-fulfillment, donuts and parades; then we actually grow up and find that making those heady plans come Continue Reading

With so much of life uncontrollable and intangible, people often place great stock in the fact that the physical world around us has a solidity and permanence to it. Sure, natural disasters and pandemics can shake that to the core in profoundly traumatic ways at times, something we all have Continue Reading

What truly makes an arresting novel? Answers will likely vary as widely as every reader out there, and their numbers are considerable, but usually most people will agree that you need a gripping narrative, superlatively engaging writing, a beguiling sense of palpable time and place, and a protagonist that captures Continue Reading

Much as we like to think of reality as a concrete, palpable thing, immovable and unchangeable, the fact is that it is altered by any number of variables, not least how we perceive the world around us and what our mind accepts as real and not real. It might look Continue Reading

SNAPSHOTFrom idyllic small towns to claustrophobic urban landscapes, Mallory Viridian is constantly embroiled in murder cases that only she has the insight to solve. But outside of a classic mystery novel, being surrounded by death doesn’t make you a charming amateur detective, it makes you a suspect and a social Continue Reading

Agatha Christie in space! Okay that’s not quite what The Apollo Murders is, and no doubt real-life Canadian author Chris Hadfield, who has made quite a name for himself in recent years with great space-centric non fiction reads, might wonder how you might shoehorn Miss Marple into a spacesuit and Continue Reading

Whenever we consider what the end of the world might look, or at least the end of the world in the form with which we are most familiar, we think of it in epic, sweeping ways, a period of time writ large with destruction, loss, pain and immeasurable grief. All Continue Reading

If you’ve been alive for longer than a day, it will have become dispiritingly obvious that do-overs or second-go-rounds are not exactly thick on the existential ground. Even the much-vaunted concept of closure seems maddeningly elusive much of the time, with mistakes and regrets irreversible and what-ifs purely the stuff Continue Reading

ARC courtesy Angry Robot Books – release date 8 February 2022 in UK and 22 March 2022 in Australia. How can you possibly resist a book which winningly pitches itself as the story of a lesbian gunslinger who fights spies in space? Reader, you cannot, and honestly, why would you Continue Reading