This anthology is so good I bought it twice. Not really, but yes. I bought two copies by accident a month apart. I was still suffering from Shingles during all of this time (I’ve got symptoms now as I type) so I’m excusing myself, and I’m sure the Andromeda Spaceways ...
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis
Est. 2009
I bought this at Book Fair Australia 2024. Shaun Micallef was a guest speaker there and I managed to sit in on his Q&A, not an easy feat, it meant getting to the seats several minutes before he started. It was lovely to watch him walk up the aisle saying ...
A while back I scribbled some words about What Cancer Said And What I Said Back by Kellie Nissen. In that book she survived her bout with cancer and wrote a book about it. Unfortunately, not every one survives cancer and in Days Like These Kristian Anderson doesn’t survive. It’s ...
I don’t recall where I bought this. It has a price inside so possibly a second-hand book shop in Adelaide, or one in Melbourne…either is possible. This was written in the 1920s and I feel that little has changed since then. It highlights how those people living on, or below, ...
I picked this up at Book Fair Australia in 2024. I was both intrigued by the title and enamoured with the author. She was vivacious, young and quite happy to be alive. This book was eminently readable despite the subject matter. I only stopped once to write one note because ...
I bought this at Oz Comic-Con in 2025. It was totally on spec. I stopped at a book shop booth and they only had translations. I did ask my normal questions but they didn’t seem to know anything about the books. I just bought this one from them. I have ...
I discovered one of my favourite authors had a book on Kickstarter. It was quite some months ago and finished on a high, having smashed several goals. Why did I back it when I knew I’d probably see him at one of those mini-conventions I like to haunt? Because it’s ...
Review by Jahanzeb Khan Backlund: From All-American Boy to Professional Wrestling’s World Champion is no ordinary autobiography. Most readers have likely read one by their favourite actor or athlete, but it’s unlikely they’ve read one by someone who was both of those at once. This is a book about a ...
This is another book that has the tag ‘return to Mum’. It’s a good thing I put these tags in books I’ve been loaned, I’d never remember to return them. This is one of those ‘must read’ books, one to be read over and over again until you’ve learned the ...
This is not your standard Discworld book. Yes, it has words, and it even has the wizards of the Unseen University. With both of those ingredients you’d expect it to be Discworld. And it is, but it isn’t. This is a book about the science that goes into making the ...
This is the first book published by Elizabeth von Armin. She published it anonymously, and continued to published many of her books without her real name. Some of them she had published as “by the author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden“. I read a biography of von Armin recently by ...
I joined the Monash Writers Group several months ago. It’s been good to be able to sit with fellow writers and talk about our writing. We’re meant to bring some writing to share with the group and receive feedback. It makes me feel as if I’m back at uni as ...
This is the second sequel to Iconic written by A.J. Gordon and Peter J. Aldin. The first was Quaestor by Peter J. Aldin and this second one is written by Aldin’s co-author. Iconic showed me that Aldin and Gordon are best when they write together. I’m not saying when they ...
This is a book loaned to me by my Mum. She insisted I had to read it and a good thing too, as it turns out. Let’s just ignore the fact that I’d not heard of Elizabeth von Arnim until I read the book. Born on the shores of Sydney ...
I read this book as part of my book club. I’m not sure I would have picked it up if I’d realised the subject matter would be so hard to read. On the other hand, the writing is fantastic, I really struggled to put it down. I loved Odette from ...