Books

It’s a rare thing indeed for great life changes to arrive without any trauma. In fact, many times, the sense of disruption and loss can be profound and while we usually emerge out the other side, we are changed, making a return to business as usual, which no longer exists Continue Reading

Life is messy. We all know this deep down and yet time and again, we seek ways short and long term, consciously and subconciously to bring order where there palpably is none and where, if we’re honest, we know there can never be. And yet we keep trying, shoving down Continue Reading

Where would you want to be at end of the world? With your loved ones or good friends? Favourite bar? The restaurant that serves your steaks just so? Most people, understandably would choose the first option if for no other reason than when everything is at its apocalyptically worst, you Continue Reading

The more things, the more they stay the same. This oft-repeated and frankly rather over-used phrase, which simultaneously sounds both very wise and extraordinarily obvious, is proof positive that humanity has a predilection for repeating its errant behaviour over and over again, no matter how disastrous or comically awful the Continue Reading

In the sometimes blighted age in which we now live, the concept of truth has taken rather a beating. A once inviolable idea that rested on the firm foundation of repeatedly verified facts, truth is now seen in certain quarters as a malleable quantity, something that can be dismissed as Continue Reading

There is something utterly captivating about watching someone come alive after years, nay decades, spent making themselves into as small and non-descript a shape as possible. Or in the case of Oliver, the titular protagonist in The Likely Resolutions of Oliver Clock by Sydney author Jane Riley who finds himself, Continue Reading

There is a time, a heady and seemingly limitless time, when you are on the cusp of adulthood where everything seems possible. Everything’s on the table, you have all the time in the world (so you think) to pick them up and put them where you will at your leisure Continue Reading

If you exercise it properly, the imagination is a vast and wondrous place. It can also be thrillingly dangerous and intensely emotionally resonant in the most visceral and cuttingly real of ways as Marlon James makes vibrantly and chillingly clear in Black Leopard, Red Wolf, a book which brings together Continue Reading

Are our lives governed by fate or free choice? It’s a weighty question, one that pops up in religious and philosophical reasoning far more than it doesn’t and for good reason – a great many of us want to know whether we are responsible for our actions or can happily Continue Reading

SNAPSHOTUnable to watch her father waste away from a mysterious illness, fierce warrior Yenni, of the Yirba tribe, sets off for a distant empire. Determined to find a cure for her father, Yenni travels to Cresh, where she comes face to face with culture shock, prejudice, and a brazen shape-shifting Continue Reading