The conceit that underpins this terrific coming of age novel is the idea that beginning with puberty the kids of a mid-western town “breach”, i.e. when the moon is full they go completely feral. Lumen Fowler is late...
Read MoreExperimental Film by Gemma Files is a damn fine ghost story. It’s not a genre that I particularly like – last year I read a couple of ghostly related novels that bored me senseless – but by fusing together the...
Read MoreBooks Read The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan The Night Clocks by Paul Meloy The Reflection by Hugo Wilcken Currently Reading In the Skin of a Monster by Kathryn Barker (1) This week my review of Tade Thompson’s...
Read MoreWhat’s It About A creepy and dark novel about reality bending motels and business conferences. Representative Paragraph The “conference surrogate” is probably the greatest idea ever invented in all of...
Read MoreWhat’s It About History. Sex. And 6 foot tall praying mantises attacking a small town in Iowa. So, you know, the usual fare. Should I Read It? Yes – but I recommend that you read a sample first. In an attempt to reflect the...
Read MoreWhat’s It About The back cover copy of The Race would lead you to believe that the entire novel is set on the coastal town of Sapphire, suffering a slow decline from fracking and ecological disaster. And while that’s...
Read MoreHere’s a couple of projects you might be interested in supporting. The first comes from Julia Rios and Alisa Krasnostein, two of my favourite people, who have joined together to edit an anthology of diverse YA stories....
Read MoreOn Sunday, Kirstyn and I recorded episode 32 of Writer and The Critic. During our discussion of Every Day by David Levithan, Kirstyn quoted from this review by Sara Polsky. Assuming Kirstyn doesn’t edit it out, you...
Read MoreI’d like to read Christopher Priest’s The Adjacent but I haven’t actually read any of his fiction (I know you can castigate me later). Anywho Niall Alexander’s review on Strange Horizon – which I...
Read MoreThe itch to blog has returned. Mostly I want to review the books I’ve been reading. Not that there have been that many but I’d still like to share my thoughts with the internet public. I had dreams of writing actual...
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