If ever there was a love letter to the power, surety and steadfast supportiveness of friendship, it is The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas. First published in 1996, this much-loved novel came upon this reviewer’s path in a secondhand bookshop in Newtown, Sydney called Elizabeth’s in the form of Continue Reading
TV review: Alien Worlds
Humanity loves a good “what if?” proposition. It is yet another manifestation of the curiosity about the world, and everything which lies beyond it, which has sent us hurtling up the evolutionary ladder, going from spears and arrows, hunting and gathering to cutting-edge medicine and spaceflight. Alien Worlds, a British Continue Reading
Movie review: Soul
Just what exactly makes for a well-lived and satisfying life? It’s sounds like a simply enough question but dig down, as Pixar’s latest animation masterpiece Soul does with poignancy, honesty, good humour and rich imagination, and it becomes quickly apparent that there’s a far bigger answer waiting for someone to Continue Reading
Book review: The Saints of Salvation (Salvation Sequence #3) by Peter F. Hamilton
However long you have been waiting for a thrilling and exciting finish to a series of some kind, no matter the medium, there is something inordinately exciting about coming to the end of a story upon which rides the fate of a particular group of people. Above all else, you Continue Reading