Books

It’s all too easy to begin hiding yourself away from the world, especially if you’re told repeatedly that this is something wrong with you, that people will reject you if they know. Or even if they don’t. Sometimes that rejection and sense of fear can be cruelly anticipatory, foreseeing problems Continue Reading

The review copy was supplied by NetGalley / publication date is 3 August 2022 There are novels, the sole motivation of which is to push the pedal to the metal and go hell for leather towards the narrative finish line, characters sacrificed on the altar of a thrilling story; then Continue Reading

There’s a meme that keeps popping up on Facebook that runs something along the lines of “I said to myself ‘I won’t buy any more books until I’ve read the ones on my TBR … and then I laughed and laughed and laughed”. Honestly, if you paid me a dollar Continue Reading

Farcically brilliant as Alison Reynold’s sparklingly clever debut novel, The Near Daphne Experience is – the inspired title alone is frankly worth the price of admission alone, one thing must be said from the start … you really should get as far from Daphne as you can. Quite why is Continue Reading

If you’ve read a lot of science fiction, there’s an extremely good chance that you have read an enormous amount of space opera, a significant chunk of the genre that dares to imagine what humanity might be like spread out among the stars and what threats might await those engaging Continue Reading

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