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(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) We live in an age where people are, with a few notable exceptions, divorced from the natural world, or what’s left of it, around them. We catch our trains, eat at our favourite restaurants and live our concrete-clad, digitally buttressed lives without any sense of the Continue Reading

(courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) A good, no, great crime thriller is always something to be savoured, enjoyed and thereafter, remembered. But for that to happen you need an author who understands that the crime is not the only thing and that for any of it to impact beyond the Continue Reading

(courtesy Text Publishing) In a world full of hatred, bigotry, violent attacks and simmering intimidation, and that’s on the good days, having somewhere to escape to that also feels like it might just exist in the real world too is an incalculable joy. While romcoms get a lot of stick Continue Reading

(courtesy The Borough Press) Finding your place in the world is no easy thing. It’s a seemingly impossible task made all the more complex and challenging when you are under a huge amount of pressure, external or self-imposed, or sometimes if you are truly unlucky, both, to be a particular Continue Reading