Books

If aliens were to invade Earth, and let’s be honest, if popular culture is any guide they are queued all the way back to the Kuiper Belt waiting to do so, the first question we would need to ask ourselves is who do need saving from – them or ourselves? Continue Reading

Sociopaths and psychopaths aside, no one ever wakes up one day and thinks to themselves that now is the time I will put aside all my lofty hopes and dreams for the future and choose instead to do those things which slowly but surely corrode my soul and eat away Continue Reading

Humanity is not, by and large, a fan of looking deep into its soul. You could be forgiven for thinking so when you look at the dizzying amount of literature, music, film and on and on devoted to exploring the darker and lighter parts of humanity’s inner self, but the Continue Reading

Humanity loves, among its many peccadilloes and quirks, the idea of positive, elevating, life-inspiring emotions. With an alacrity bordering on the zealous and borne no doubt of a desperate desire to push aside any idea that we are trapped in a gothic horror show from which there is no reasonable Continue Reading

Happy Love Your Bookshop Day everyone! If you are like me, you love your bookshop every day and the books you get there with immense affection, but today is a day when you can shower love, praise and enduring pleasure upon the good people who put up with a lot Continue Reading

Belonging somewhere, truly belonging somewhere, is a powerful thing. It can provide the kind of safety and security of which adventurous, well-lived lives are made, it allows us to explore and express who we are without fear of sanction or condemnation, and it instils a sense of shared humanity through Continue Reading

As 2020 has demonstrated with almost devilish glee, life is a LOT. While it can be gloriously uplifting and fulfilling and loving and rich with endless possibility, it can also feel like the entire weight of the world upon you, a disappointment so raw and gargantuan that coping with it Continue Reading

By its very nature, writing lends itself to great, vaulting leaps of imagination. Stories vary greatly and may take you to worlds magical or thoughtful, startling or reflective, whimsical or gravely serious; but whatever their tone or intent, every last one of them is underpinned by a surfeit of expansively, Continue Reading

For a species laying careless waste to the planet and appallingly skilled in the messily chaotic art of death, destruction and war, humanity has a prevailing passion for neat and tidy recovery from trauma and grief. Pop culture celebrates triumphant comebacks from breakdowns and mental setbacks, inspirational speakers spruik the Continue Reading