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  I was never of a video game player growing up. Mostly that was the result of growing up in the ’70s and ’80s when board games were the diversion of choice, and all you really electronic games-wise were the likes of Pong and Space Invaders which, while fun, were Continue Reading

  National Bookshop Day was held Saturday 13 August and I made a point of visiting my three favourite bookshops in Sydney … and yes, I bought a LOT of books in my favourite places in the world. Long may they live! ______________________________ This National Bookshop Day, Australia’s one-time Minister Continue Reading

  If there is one thing Lauren Graham has mastered after playing Lorelai Gilmore , not once but twice – Gilmore Girls returns on Netflix this November with 4 new stand alone episodes – it’s talking fast. Wonderfully, gloriously, cleverly, articulately, pop culture reference-laden FAST. Having seen her interviewed on Continue Reading

  They were, as the jaunty theme song is fond of saying, “the modern stone age family”. But a lot of time has passed between the 1960s when The Flintstones debuted, inspired in large part by The Honeymooners, and while the cartoon re-runs are still a delight to watch with Continue Reading

  Granted it’s winter in Australia but such are our mild temps at the moment – it was 25 degrees Celsius in Sydney yesterday just to give you some idea of how un-Siberia-like things are at the moment! – that these wonderful suggestions from Instagram account Ice Cream Books can be Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Porcelain is about making it, losing it, loving it and hating it. It’s about finding your people, and your place, thinking you’ve lost them both, and then, finally, somehow, when you think it’s over, from a place of well-earned despair, creating a masterpiece. As a portrait of the Continue Reading

  If you’ve had a sneaking suspicion, a tingling sixth sense sensation that there is more the world around you than meets the eye, then welcome to the mysterious world of Mur Lafferty where zombies and vampires, dragons, sprites and Nordic Goddesses are not only real but “living” and working Continue Reading

  When we think of the apocalypse or dystopian futures, our minds usually go to scenes of the undead pursuing the living with flesh-craving resolve, giant asteroids on a collision course with Earth, or cities rife with grime and decay, poverty and despair. They do not, however, entertain visions of Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Vivian the Dog Moves to Brooklyn is a book about a big dog moving from Albuquerque, New Mexico to Brooklyn, New York. It’s 32 pages long and will be full of beautiful photo-illustrations created by Mitch and starring Vivian, with some pretty fantastic letterings and drawings by the Continue Reading

  Grief can be a cruel, intangible beast. As we grapple with great loss and the seemingly unending loss of control that comes with it, we struggle to understand how to approach to deal with it, how to regain some form of power from an entity that seems to have Continue Reading