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Well that was unexpected…

I’m okay, I promise, but last Monday I had a heart attack. ( PSA to all my women friends – it didn’t feel all dramatic and serious like on tv, my chest just hurt, and my arm was a bit sore, so I popped in to the nearby medical centre on my way to work

A Book A Week – July 2022

Covid came to our little apartment in July, and although I worked more days at the day job, not less, I did allow myself to read a bit more inbetween. Books three and four of Selina Fenech’s Beshadowed series were awesome, I loved the extraordinary Legacy by Larissa Behrendt, Garden of Promises and Lies by Paula Brackston and Eternal Light

A Book A Week – June 2022

June was a month of beautiful books, and awesome writers festival events for Hannah Kent’s third book Devotion, Kate Forsyth’s intriguing The Crimson Thread and Favel Parrett’s adorable MG book Wandi, plus the fascinating Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta, sweet audiobook Anne of Green Gables, narrated by Rachel McAdams, and The Silent Princess and may other faery

A Book A Week – May 2022

May #bookaweek catch-up – so many incredible reads, especially Claire G Coleman’s extraordinary debut novel Terra Nullius, and Elle McNicoll’s stunning Show Us Who You Are. The first is a heartbreaking, desperately moving and horrifying sci-fi novel, which made me equally sad and enraged – but convinced that *everyone* should read it. It’s beautiful, powerful

A Book A Week – April 2022

My favourite April reads were the magical MG adventure Like A Charm by Elle McNicoll, and the historical fantasy The Vine Witch by Luanne G Smith. (I have the next two in this trilogy, and will hopefully get to them soon!) There were also faery tales, an intriguing spec fic novel, a new instalment in

A Book A Week – March 2022

March was full of wonderful books, from Felicity Pulman’s Arthurian adventure Shalott 2: Dangerous Magic, Lily Chu’s sweet The Stand-In and Yvette Poshoglian’s inspiring MG read Dear Greta, to Clementine Ford’s Boys Will Be Boys and Samantha Allen’s touching M to (WT)F and Love & Estrogen, and some gorgeous books for younger readers... And I’m

Swan Maiden Audiobook

It’s always a bit nerve-racking hearing your audiobook for the first time, because for so long the story has been so clear in your head, and now someone else is contributing their perspective to it too, since an audiobook really is a collaboration between author and narrator. But when I was casting for the audiobook