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    We seem to live in an age where mystery is a rare and vanishing commodity. But just when it threatens to wink out of existence, a victim of a culture where everything appears eminently explainable, along comes Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robyn Sloan to the rescue, uniting Continue Reading

    The Long Earth, the first in a planned series of novels by these two giants of the British publishing scene is an expansively imaginative work. Flavoured more by Stephen Baxter‘s high-concept reckonings of future realities, with only traces here and there of Terry Pratchett‘s warmth and whimsy, it Continue Reading

  Entertaining Mr Sloane by the oft-acknowledged master of black comedies, Joe Orton, is a journey to the dark side of humanity. Albeit one disguised with such witty, euphemism-laden banter that you’re apt to forget you are witnessing people, desperate for the best in life, behaving at their very worst. And Continue Reading

  When you say the phrase “author platform” it conjures up images of an earnest writer perched high atop a teetering wooden rostrum, fingers perched above typewriter keys, their face a knot of perspiring concentration. An interesting image to be sure, but it does beg the question of what an Continue Reading

Forget torches under the sheets as we read way past our bedtime. In this celebrity-driven age, we can read by the sheer light of star power alone. While society has always been obsessed with the great names of the day, it has never been more ubiquitous than it is now, Continue Reading

Shocking news today. Fairfaz media today announced a raft of sweeping changes to the way they operate over the next three years including the excising of 1900 jobs, mostly in their print facilities, and the conversion of the two oldest newspapers in the country, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Continue Reading

If it’s possible for apocalypses to be in vogue, and there is plenty of evidence that they are the in-thing at the moment with the ongoing fascination with a possible looming zombie infestation or the Mayans end-of-days calendar, then thoughts surely must turn to what you would do with yourself Continue Reading

I may have missed seeing this in person this year because life got in the  way but thanks to the wonders of time lapse photography, it is as if I did get to wander amongst all the luminous wonder. And now you can too…  

  This is  a seriously funny book. It really is. There are few comedic writers that I can think of that can weave painful stories about their past in with pithy, hilarious observations about those experiences and salt and pepper them with pop culture references that don’t just make sense Continue Reading