Books

No matter who you are, growing is never, ever easy. It becomes significantly less easier when you have the audacity to be born singularly unable to march to the beat of a mainstream drum, a “failing”, so the gatekeepers of what is normal and correct, by society’s standards anyway, that Continue Reading

Brilliantly well-written romantic comedies are a thing of escapist wonder. In a world where life too often throws on beige garments, walk at a sullenly glacial pace through each and every day and spends its free time doing tax returns and crunching rainfall data from 1943, rom-coms often us the Continue Reading

“Hi, my name is Andrews and I have a TBR pile so tall and full of titles that it will down fall and bury me.” “Hi Andrew.” I am a man of many books and many aspirational reading adventures and while I have read 58 books this year, which is Continue Reading

Whether we know it or not, we are powerfully shaped by our stories and histories, by where we belong and who we belong to, and by how the past is inextricably part of our present. This truth is captured with powerfully moving resonance by debut novelist Shankari Chandran who writes Continue Reading

One of the biggest genres in book publishing at the moment is what you could loosely called redemptive literature. Often inspirational and heartwarming in all the right places, the genre offers a chance for growth and change in a world where that is not always where a realistic option and Continue Reading

Most of the time, a road trip is am exciting thing, redolent with the promise of adventure, of time away from the everyday and the banal and perhaps a surprise or two tucked in there among the food and petrol stops and the kilometres ticking by at a rate of Continue Reading

Diving headfirst into a novel that promises escapism writ large is one of the best self-care things you can do for yourself. Most especially when you have an author John Scalzi at the helm who freely admits, with a refreshing honesty that is gloriously uplifting in its intent, that his Continue Reading

Healing from grief is a thousand kinds of awful, awkward, strange and desperately, disorientingly uncertain. In a landscape where many of the old certainties of life are gone, and a chaotic jumble of previously unknown feelings and experiences have taken their place, it’s entirely fair to say that there is Continue Reading

It is generally agreed that every book worth its captivating storytelling novel needs a damn good protagonist, someone who may not be perfect but who is able to drive things forward, get things done and hopefully end up suitably well-changed by the time the narrative draws to a satisfying close. Continue Reading