Better to ask for forgiveness than seek permission.
That’s a mantra running through Karen Comer’s verisimilitude verse novel, GRACE NOTES.
Grace, an aspiring violinist, with virtuoso lineage from her paternal grandmother, has parents who have confused the word ‘possibilities’ with …
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FAITHLESS is a dilemma as there is a disconnect between what Alice Nelson was hoping to write versus how the book actually is. Good enough for me but maybe not for her. I was entertained the way I …
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When I started reading I MAY BE WRONG by Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, I was sure I had read this book before. It is the same book in different packaging as many before it, although I do not think …
I fear for any book that fails to interest one the way that I FEAR MY PAIN INTERESTS YOU does.
Stephanie LaCava’s short sharp novel grabs your interest from the title alone, then keeps it on the incline with the …
Captain Courageous is young Max’s favourite TV character, for whom – according to the theme song – nothing is too rough or too tough. Max can’t wait to get home after school and enjoy the show.
However, much to Max’s …
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You are not going to die. You are not going to die. You are not going to die. You are already dead.
A beautifully written, dramatically photographed small, light book by Richard James Allen that tackles hard subjects.…
The first great thriller of the year is here.
AGE OF VICE by Deepti Kapoor is a blockbuster, sprawling, brawling crime saga set in the subcontinent in the first decade of the current century.
A kind of Crazy Rich Asians…
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“She wanted her story to be told and, although it’s more than a decade later, I hope she would have approved.”
This is the rationale given by Lynne Williams for why she chose to write “Girl with the …
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Kate Scott’s debut novel COMPULSION captures the drug taking, nihilistic, too-good-for-the-mainstream youth hipster music scene of the 2000 in the worst way possible. I remember this scene well, being an insufferable hipster teen myself, skipping classes with my …
Melissa Doyle was feeling very sorry for herself.
Her beloved son Nicholas was leaving the nest to further his studies in America. Furthermore, she had lost her long term contract with Channel 7 inferring that at fifty she was deemed …