Books

In its usual state of busyness and activity, it is easy to think that your life is exactly where it’s meant to be. After all, who, in the pell-mell rush to get life done ever really has the time to stop and consider what it is they really want from Continue Reading

Is there anything new under the apocalypse meets space opera sun? Why yes there is, in fact, and it’s all thanks to one of the best books to emerge so far this year, Project Hail Mary, courtesy of Andy Weir who is most well known for The Martian, his debut Continue Reading

One of the enduring deficits of our modern age is the inability of people to put themselves in someone else’s shoes and appreciate life from their perspective, a great irony considering the supposed hyperconnectivity of the digital era. This lack of empathy is nothing new, of course, having bedevilled humanity Continue Reading

Having the weight of destiny sitting heavily upon your shoulders is not easy for anyone. But it’s particularly onerous for Dreckly Jones, the protagonist of The Rose Daughter by Maria Lewis, a woman of supernatural origins – her father was an earth elemental and her mother a selkie – who Continue Reading

ARC courtesy NetGalley – release date 2 June 2021 in Australia. There is a certain familiarity that comes with airline hijacking narratives. Naturally, there is always a sense of mounting tension as innocent parties embark on what they think will be a trouble-free journey only to discover that their flight Continue Reading

ARC courtesy Simon & Schuster (via NetGalley) – release date 25 May 2021. There is a certain romanticisation about writing that dwells steadfastly in the hearts of anyone who hasn’t actually written. Truth be told, it probably resides in the souls of those who do write; however, there it is Continue Reading

ARC courtesy NetGalley – release date 31 August 2021 in Australia. At the very least, a good fantasy story should allow you to escape the often dreadfully predictable bonds of the everyday and escape into a world that’s nothing like the one you see on your daily commute or when Continue Reading

ARC courtesy NetGalley – release date 7 July 2021 in Australia. There is a great and abiding darkness in Catch Us the Foxes by Nicola West which belies its setting in the bucolically sunny climes of the NSW South Coast, specifically the popular tourist town of Kiama, known most famously Continue Reading

It’s a rare thing for anyone to ever have an abiding sense of destiny. Sure, many of us might have a fairly strong sense of where it is we want to head in life or who we would like to be, but knowing deep in the very fabric of our Continue Reading