Books

One of the inestimable delights of plunging into a really well thought out space opera is how many incredibly fascinating observations they have to make about the human condition. That’s true of almost all science fiction to be fair, but there is something about the larger than life look (they Continue Reading

You have to hand it to humanity, well the writers among us anyway – they can think up an awful lot of inventive way for our species to collectively bite the dust. We’ve had zombies, catastrophic pandemics, worldwide super storms, climate change, alien invasions and a whole host more, and Continue Reading

One of humanity’s greatest defining characteristics is our aspirational curiosity. In other words, our desire to know things simply for the pure thrill of knowing things, a quality that while a laudable goal in and of itself, has allowed us to grow and develop like no other species. While things Continue Reading

Grief isn’t just an emotional state. It is a reshaping of everything you have ever known, a resculpting of a world view that once felt as permanent as a towering mountain of solid rock but now feels like here-one-day-gone-the-next sandbars that come and go with the tide. It’s something that Continue Reading

Coming up with a truly original idea is a challenge. After all, thousands of stories, whether in oral or written form, have ensured that there are precious few new ideas under the sun; in fact, storytelling tropes are so well ingrained in our culture, that students of writing are taught Continue Reading

The following is my love letter, on Love Your Bookshop Day, to my favourite bookstore in the world – Better Read Than Dead in Newtown, Sydney, Australia. It’s a rare thing indeed for me, even as an inveterate people person who connects with just about everyone after 4.5 nanoseconds (likely Continue Reading

You could be forgiven, mere pages into the nostalgia-tinged, conversationally-oriented wonder that Daisy Jones & The Six, for thinking that the novel should be shelved in the music section of your local bookstore rather than on its fiction shelves. Styled like a VH1 Behind the Music special, where anyone and Continue Reading

For all the beauty, love and grandeur of which humanity is capable, there is also a frightening capacity for evil on a horrifying scale. Nowhere has this dark part of our collective soul been more terribly expressly that in the Holocaust when the Nazis murdered six million Jews (along with Continue Reading

One of life’s great joys is watching or listening to someone who is not only passionate about the thing or things they love, but who can talk about them in ways that inform, move and inspire you. That’s why watching any of British presenter Simon Reeve’s documentary series is such Continue Reading