(courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) As juxtapositions go, “cosy crime” is right up there on the list of sub-genres that might make you a double take. After all, what could possibly be cosy about murder, injustice and weirdly depraved attacks on people? Quite a lot as it turns out; not Continue Reading
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Post Halloween book review: Heads Will Roll by Josh Winning
If you have ever watched a slasher flick – think the Scream series or the Halloween franchise starring Jamie Lee Curtis to name just two of many – you will be well acquainted with the prevailing tropes and cliches of the genre. Eminently disposable characters suddenly find themselves stalked and Continue Reading
Deep TBR Halloween book review: A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher
(courtesy Argyll Productions) If you have ever seen a medieval battle scene where an army of armour and arrows and trebuchets (great big wooden slingy things) is laying siege to a walled city or castle, you will be well acquainted with how these conflicts generally go. There are lots of Continue Reading
Deep TBR book review: All the Galaxies by Philip Miller
(courtesy Allen & Unwin Book Publishers) After watching far too many books sit trapped in my To Be Read (TBR) pile for years and years, I decided it was high time a month was devoted to rescuing them from the reading void and diving into their promising stories. So, for Continue Reading
“Guys like us don’t become the heroes.” Find a new place in life with Interior Chinatown
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTBased on Charles Yu’s award-winning book of the same name, the show follows the story of Willis Wu, a background character trapped in a police procedural called Black & White. Relegated to the background, Willis goes through the motions of his on-screen job, waiting tables, dreaming about Continue Reading
Deep TBR book review: An Accidental Odyssey (An Exlibris Adventure) by kc dyer
(courtesy Penguin Random House) After watching far too many books sit trapped in my To Be Read (TBR) pile for years and years, I decided it was high time a month was devoted to rescuing them from the reading void and diving into their promising stories. So, for October, each Continue Reading
Deep TBR book review: Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
(courtesy Fourth Estate) After watching far too many books sit trapped in my To Be Read (TBR) pile for years and years, I decided it was high time a month was devoted to rescuing them from the reading void and diving into their promising stories. So, for October, each book Continue Reading
Rebellion in the offing … Silo season 2 drops its first portentous trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIn a toxic dystopian future where a community lives in a giant silo hundreds of stories deep underground, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Silo, formerly known as Wool, is a mini-series created and written by Canadian TV Continue Reading
Deep TBR book review: The Geography of Friendship by Sally Piper
(courtesy UQP) After watching far too many books sit trapped in my To Be Read (TBR) pile for years and years, I decided it was high time a month was devoted to rescuing them from the reading void and diving into their promising stories. So, for October, each book review Continue Reading
Celebrating the very happiest of my happy places: Love Your Bookshop Day 2024
(courtesy The Book People) An initiative of The Book People, Love Your Bookshop Day was started as a means of “celebrat[ing] bookshops across the country and highlight[ing] what makes local bookshops great”. This year’s theme, “Giving the gift of imagination”, celebrates “the crucial role bookshops play in inspiring our imagination” Continue Reading