BOOK REVIEW In the words of Monty Python – and now for something completely different. My favourite children’s author and illustrator coincidently wrote my favourite children’s book and she has…
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BOOK REVIEW – The Compound, debuting in late June 2025, thrusts readers into a dystopian, reality TV–style experiment involving 10 women who awaken in a desert compound, cameras following their…
If there was one book I could read over it would be American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins, so I was really anticipating the release of Speak to Me of Home….
BOOK REVIEW This selection had a well-deserved 5/5 on goodreads and there is a reason for that. Fierceland, the latest poetry collection by acclaimed Australian writer Omar Musa, is a…
BOOK REVIEW Due to be released in August, Tenderfoot sees celebrated Australian author Toni Jordan return to literary fiction with a deeply affecting and nuanced coming-of-age story set in the…
BOOK REVIEW I want to introduce you to Ruth Warburton, known by the alias Ruth Ware – a British psychological thriller author. Her novels include In a Dark, Dark Wood,…
BOOK REVIEW From my review of Limberlost you will remember I am a fan of Robbie Arnott so I am delighted that his fourth book is here, Dusk, which encapsulates…
BOOK REVIEW RF Kuang’s Babel is a brilliant, genre-bending novel that seamlessly weaves together fantasy, historical fiction, and political allegory. Subtitled Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of…
The Pulitzer Prize honours Joseph Pulitzer who stood out as the very embodiment of American journalism. Hungarian-born, an intensely indomitable figure, Pulitzer was the most skilful of newspaper publishers, an…
BOOK REVIEW This novel circles around the two sisters, with the bond between them proving fragile yet resilient. Beneath layers of deception lies a heartfelt story about acceptance and love….
BOOK REVIEW I have just finished F Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night, for maybe the third time. It was first published in 1934 and is a hauntingly lyrical exploration…
BOOK REVIEW Best-selling author Evie Woods lives on the west coast of Ireland and writes her stories in a converted attic. Treading an intriguing line between the everyday and otherworldly,…