There is something thrilling about a writer who is so acrobatic in their writing style and so skilled at their craft that they can handle a number of ideas and genre leaps in the one novel and never have it feel for a second like it’s a literary Frankenstein. Such Continue Reading
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Book review: The Dark Between the Trees by Fiona Barnett
You know that deeply unsettling sense you sometimes get when you’re deep in the forest or bush, or walking past it, where it feels like someone is watching you? It’s a cloyingly unnerving sense that you are not alone, egged on by flashes of movement you swear you see in Continue Reading
Book review: The No-Show by Beth O’Leary
Beth O’Leary has proven herself to be one of those talented authors that you can depend on to deliver highly readable books that are both accessibly escapist and yet which come with ready wit and the meat substance of the human experience folded in. Her novels to date such The Continue Reading
Book review: Loveland by Robert Lukins
The ugliness of life is rarely beautiful but in the hands of masterful Australian writer Robert Lukins, it is realised in ways that are lyrically poetic, mesmerisingly powerful and profoundly moving. Loveland is a novel that carries a title that suggests the most beautiful things in life all embodied in Continue Reading
UPCOMING READS: Nubia: The Awakening by Omar Epps and Clarence A. Haynes
SNAPSHOTFor Zuberi, Uzochi, and Lencho, Nubia is a mystery. Before they were born, a massive storm destroyed their ancestral homeland, forcing their families to flee across the ocean to New York City. Nubia, a utopic island nation off the coast of West Africa, was no more, and their parents’ sorrow Continue Reading
Book review: The Stranger by Kathryn Hore
Renewal or revenge? They are, of course, polar divergent opposite choices and the idea and impetus behind them form the beating heart of The Stranger by Kathyrn Hore, a stunningly evocative novel that asks which one will save you, if there is saving to be done at all, and which Continue Reading
Book review: Twice Shy by Sarah Hogle
Falling in love is quite wonderful, no matter who you are. As the anticipatory jitters become nascent attraction and then full-blown head over heels loved up splendour, you find yourself swept up in something which has no real equal with anything else we go through in life. It’s a life Continue Reading
Book review: When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
If you have ever thought that love, in all its many-splendoured glory has a supernatural feel to it. then you will find much to love in When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo. An evocatively written novel that seamlessly and affecting melds a love story with a ghost story, Continue Reading
Book review: A Million Aunties by Alecia McKenzie
We all need family. Whether it’s flesh or found, family is the glue that binds to a very special sense of time and place, which gives us a place of unconditional belonging and which helps us to make sense of the world. It may not always be an idyllic place Continue Reading
UPCOMING READS: The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by KJ Charles
SNAPSHOTAbandoned by his father as a small child, Sir Gareth Inglis has grown up prickly, cold, and well-used to disappointment. Even so, he longs for a connection, falling headfirst into a passionate anonymous affair that’s over almost as quickly as it began. Bitter at the sudden rejection, Gareth has little Continue Reading