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  This is the first in a series of interviews with the (re)Visions: Alice that I published on a now sadly defunct writing site back in 2012. I hope you enjoy discovering more about the authors behind these remarkably imaginative re-imagined tales. Kaye Chazan describes herself on her blog as “a writer Continue Reading

I have always been a voracious reader. As a child I devoured anywhere between 75 and 150 books a year – and yes, I have the geeky award cards from the school librarian to prove it; this explains, of course why I was so wildly popular with my peers during Continue Reading

  If you’re a book lover, forget about Paris in the Springtime! Well for the purposes of this post at least. Consider instead London in the Summer and its marvellous Books About Town campaign which has seen the city dotted with “50 unique BookBench sculptures, designed by local artists and Continue Reading

  Grief is not the uniformly expressed, clean cut, step by step, easily measured process that modern pop psychology has led us to believe. Like any expression of our humanity, it is as individual as the person experiencing it, fleetingly brief for some, painfully lingering for others, its expression finding Continue Reading

  There is a Jesuits quote, attributed to any number of people, most notably either St. Francis Xavier or St. Ignatius of Loyola, that is often rendered as “Give me a child until he is seven, and I will give you the man”. Echoing the Biblical idea encapsulated in Proverbs Continue Reading

  I really love the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes by the amazing Bill Watterson. Really love it. REALLY, really love it. And in the spirit of being mad about an art form that is more than a little bit in danger, in its traditional form at least, thanks to the Continue Reading

  Ask anyone who reads a lot of books what they love about them and they’ll likely tell you it’s the immersive worlds you are subsumed into, the vivid characters, the sense of escape into someone else’s life, the joy/the sadness/the exhilaration of being someone else for a while, the Continue Reading

  The world needs more people with a gleefully twisted view of the universe. No, I am not talking the need for more TV crime shows about sociopaths happily dispatching all and sundry with artistic brio and philosophical justification, although to be fair what would Dexter, The Mentalist and the Continue Reading

  At first appearance, Don Tillman, the handsome 39 year old geneticist with undiagnosed Asperger’s Syndrome (and a love of lobster every Tuesday night without exception) who anchors Graeme Simsion’s delightful debut novel with his quest for a wife via questionnaires, and Shakespeare may not look to have a great Continue Reading

  We are accustomed in our loud, brash, 24/7 news cycle world to marking life’s big, momentous moments, the 10th anniversary of this, the 75th celebration of that, our calendars jammed full of the epic, the noteworthy, the hard to miss. While there is, of course, nothing intrinsically wrong with Continue Reading