Books

If you have ever wondered what the end point of mercenary capitalism looks like, and to be fair, it beginning and mid points too, then look no further than the chillingly imaginative second instalment in the Memory War series by Karen Osborne. Engines of Oblivion, the successor to the endlessly Continue Reading

It has become apparent to all but the comprehensively deluded among us that the planet is in deep, sustained ecological trouble. Wildfires whip through places annually that might’ve seen a terrible conflagration once a decade, droughts lay waste to once productive land and catastrophically violent storms are sweeping in with Continue Reading

It is one thing to love a book; quite another to fall so headlong in love with it that reading it feels like you’ve come home. In the latter scenario, it’s as if this was the book you were always meant to read, one that will stay in your heart Continue Reading

SNAPSHOTSeventy-five years from today, the human race has been cast from a dying Earth to wander the stars in a vast fleet of arks—each shaped by its inhabitants into a diverse and fascinating new environment, with its own rules and eccentricities. When her sister disappears while responding to a mysterious Continue Reading

Some bonds can never be broken it seems. In the mysterious perfection of Catriona Silbey’s Meet Me in Another Life, we are given devastatingly powerful insight into how some connections are so strong and unyielding that they persist in the face of every challenge or obstacle they encounter. To begin Continue Reading

People like, no, NEED to feel grounded and connected. Without that sense that we belong somewhere, to someone or to a particular time and place, we feel lost and unmoored, a debilitating condition that sends life into an agonisingly enervating limbo. Eileen Garvin explores exactly how this feels, with tenderness, Continue Reading

Humanity doesn’t do well with brokenness. Not so much the being in it, although god knows none of us like to loiter there for too long, but with the concept of brokenness itself, that troubling, unsettling sense that life is not as perfect or idyllic as we want it to Continue Reading

Los Angeles has clearly done something to make the universe determined to wipe it off the face of the map. Or at least that part of the universe that has fantastical powers and a sociopathic, the world-done-me-wrong mindset, the drivers of action in Jackson’s Ford’s first two Frost Files books Continue Reading

SNAPSHOTWhen Rosie finds a secret door under her bed, it leads her to a spooky town with two BIG problems – they’ve lost all their color, and Rosie can’t seem to get back home! With the help of a new friend, Rosie has a new goal: repaint and restore the Continue Reading