Books

Escaping from a dark and terrible situation usually demands one thing, and one thing only – just get the hell away! Whatever comes after that is the subject of improvisation and desperation, and if it’s a good thing, something that changes your life, well that is the luxuriant icing on Continue Reading

Most apocalyptic fiction rests solely on the basis that the end has come, civilisation has been shown the door and humanity is existing, if it can even be called that, in its smouldering, soon-to-disappear ruins. Granted these types of stories aren’t meant to have much hope or be even remotely Continue Reading

SNAPSHOTTV researcher Poppy McGowan has never sought the spotlight and is none too happy to be photographed with rock god Nathan Castle. When the photo pops up on celebrity gossip sites, it sparks a media feeding frenzy, forcing Poppy to go to ground, don a wig, and pull some nifty Continue Reading

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