Copy provided for review by NetGalley For a species that embraces the certainty of rules, regulations and dogma, we are also invariably in love with the idea of mystery, with the sense that for all the things we know about the world, there are a great many things we do Continue Reading
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Graphic novel review: The Heartstopper Yearbook by Alice Oseman
SNAPSHOTNow an acclaimed live-action Netflix series! Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. This joyful trip into the LGBTQ+ world of Heartstopper is the perfect gift for anyone who loves the graphic novels or Netflix TV series – from Alice Oseman, bestselling author and winner of the Continue Reading
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas … Santa Maybe by Mary Jayne Baker (book review)
Santa Maybe was provided as a preview by NetGalley. As romantic times of the year go, surely nothing surpasses Christmas as the go-to season for falling headlong, madly, irrevocably and without regret into the welcoming arms of Cupid? Sure, you are supposed to do that on Valentine’s Day but it’s Continue Reading
Book review: Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan
Is it possible for something as confectedly light and escapist as a rom-com to have a sense of grounded, real world humanity? And even if it is, wouldn’t that break the gossamer-lovely romantic spell that every rom-com tries to weave in ways beguiling and heart-stirringly sweet? Well, while it’s not Continue Reading
Book review: The Last Watch (a novel of The Divide #1) by J. S. Dewes
Much as this reviewer loves wandering through bookstores and adding to a TBR pile that is tall enough to block out the sun at last count, there are times when a book buyer’s fingers lead them to online sites where apart from the book you came for, a thousand different Continue Reading
Book review: Moon Sugar by Angela Meyer
There is something thrilling about a writer who is so acrobatic in their writing style and so skilled at their craft that they can handle a number of ideas and genre leaps in the one novel and never have it feel for a second like it’s a literary Frankenstein. Such Continue Reading
Book review: The Dark Between the Trees by Fiona Barnett
You know that deeply unsettling sense you sometimes get when you’re deep in the forest or bush, or walking past it, where it feels like someone is watching you? It’s a cloyingly unnerving sense that you are not alone, egged on by flashes of movement you swear you see in Continue Reading
Book review: The No-Show by Beth O’Leary
Beth O’Leary has proven herself to be one of those talented authors that you can depend on to deliver highly readable books that are both accessibly escapist and yet which come with ready wit and the meat substance of the human experience folded in. Her novels to date such The Continue Reading
Book review: Loveland by Robert Lukins
The ugliness of life is rarely beautiful but in the hands of masterful Australian writer Robert Lukins, it is realised in ways that are lyrically poetic, mesmerisingly powerful and profoundly moving. Loveland is a novel that carries a title that suggests the most beautiful things in life all embodied in Continue Reading
UPCOMING READS: Nubia: The Awakening by Omar Epps and Clarence A. Haynes
SNAPSHOTFor Zuberi, Uzochi, and Lencho, Nubia is a mystery. Before they were born, a massive storm destroyed their ancestral homeland, forcing their families to flee across the ocean to New York City. Nubia, a utopic island nation off the coast of West Africa, was no more, and their parents’ sorrow Continue Reading