(not final cover; courtesy Simon & Schuster Australia) SNAPSHOTIn Wynbridge, the scent of autumn is on the breeze and love is in the air… Clemmie Bennett has been renovating beautiful Rowan Cottage on the outskirts of the small town of Wynbridge, for eighteen months following a very public heartbreak back Continue Reading
A revolution begins … Thoughts on Silo season 2
(courtesy IMP Awards) Humanity has always been defined by an exuberant need to LIVE. Not just get by nor survive but to LIVE, to revel in possibility and promise and to explore all the amazing ways we can express our innate curiosity, passion and vivacious fascination with life. But what Continue Reading
Book review: The Serial Killer’s Guide to San Francisco by Michelle Choiunard
This book was read at Kalimna, Yeranda cottages, near Dungog in early January 2025. Once upon a time, a certain reader devoured all of Agatha Christie’s novels in one roughly year-long go at the suggestion of his book-loving dad who saw the works of the masterful English crime writer as Continue Reading
“No matter what happens, you are all winners!” Win or Lose debuts official full trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTWin or Lose follows a co-ed middle school softball team called the Pickles in the week leading up to their big championship game. Each 20-minute episode takes the same events from one different member of the Pickles and their perspective as the game approaches, such as players, Continue Reading
Book review: Mrs Quinn’s Rise to Fame by Olivia Ford
This book was read at Kalimna, Yeranda cottages, near Dungog in early January 2025. We live in an age where endless self-empowerment and improvement have become dogma, the endless mantras of a world where you don’t stand still, you don’t stop and you don’t simply make do. It’s an endless Continue Reading
Sometimes adventure isn’t all it’s cracked up to be … thoughts on Star Wars: Skeleton Crew S2 (E3-8)
(courtesy IMP Awards) One of the things that has always about Star Wars, from the moment this reviewer saw A New Hope (or just Star Wars as it was then) in a cinema in 1977 right up until now is its capacity for no holds barred adventuring. As Luke Skywalker Continue Reading
Movie review: Paddington in Peru (#3)
(courtesy IMP Awards) Any time you’re around Paddington Bear is a good, warmhearted and wonderful time. In the case of this reviewer, it began some decades ago with the books of Michael Bond, the man who gifted us this remarkably lovely and thoughtful character, beginning in 1958 with A Bear Continue Reading
Book review: Echo of Worlds (The Pandominion Book 2) by M. R. Carey
This book was read at Kalimna, Yeranda cottages, near Dungog in early January 2025. Every novel you read should, in some way or another, take you to a place far away from your own. Good or bad, this world should provide an escape from the everyday sameness of the life Continue Reading
Can you move on eventually? Shrinking S2 wrap-up review
By the time many of us reach the confusingly contradictory, dark and difficult, joyful and not messy wilds of unpredictable adulthood, we have been well and truly disabused of the notion that life is always going to be a smooth and easy ride. With that warm and cosy slice of Continue Reading
Movie review: Wallace & Gromit Vengeance Most Fowl
(courtesy IMP Awards) It’s a rare thing in this hyperconnected, digitally frenzied age where something is demanded of you almost every second of every day to just sit back, switch off and spend some time with old friends. And when that happens, when the gods smile upon you with an Continue Reading