It’s 1949, early in the Cold War, but St. Petersburg, Florida is warm, lush, and booming with newcomers seeking sunshine and opportunity. For seventeen-year-old Nora, St. Pete feels like paradise, especially after she meets and wins over Leonard, the shy, brilliant son of transplanted New Yorkers. Nora and Leonard are soon spending balmy days andContinue reading “Review: Sunlight Finds You explores first love and relationship trauma in the 1950s”
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Q&A with Jaclyn Moriarty on Time Travel for Beginners
Three strangers’ lives are forever changed when they’re all drawn to a mysterious agency claiming to have unlocked the secret to time travel. Anna, Teddy, and Jade are on a collision course. The Agency is the cause. It is also the solution. On a quiet road nestled within the bustle of Sydney lies a nondescriptContinue reading “Q&A with Jaclyn Moriarty on Time Travel for Beginners”
Review: When She Was Ours shines in emotional moments but struggles with plotting
Thea Erickson, a renowned surgeon, is filled with both joy and grief as her family gathers at their home on a summer night in 1995. Her elder daughter Phoebe is getting married, but even the happiness of the day feels bittersweet, as Thea grapples with a terminal cancer diagnosis. She worries she won’t be aroundContinue reading “Review: When She Was Ours shines in emotional moments but struggles with plotting”
Q&A with Jodi McAlister on A Study in Sparkling: Fine wine, romance & more
Fiona Fisher thought she had it all: a loving husband, three kids, and a life far away from the suffocating expectations of her family. But when her husband reveals that he’s leaving her for his secret second family, Fiona is left devastated and humiliated. Satoshi Tsukamoto wants it all. He’s the owner of a popularContinue reading “Q&A with Jodi McAlister on A Study in Sparkling: Fine wine, romance & more”
Review: Neighbourhood Watch balances realism and hope
The annual Curlew Street scarecrow competition is back, and the residents of Melbourne’s inner north have never seen an entry like it. Shirt bloody, head and arms slumped over a scarecrow crucifix: Victoria’s most conservative Supreme Court Judge, Harry ‘The Pope’ Somerton, is dead. Priyanka Pal, a former psychologist turned homicide detective, is disturbed whenContinue reading “Review: Neighbourhood Watch balances realism and hope”
Q&A with Amanda Lohrey on Capture: Alien abduction, scepticism and psychiatric research
James Mather is a psychiatrist in his sixties. He is invited to take on a new group of patients. All he knows about them is that each one claims to have been abducted by aliens. His wife, Deborah, is sceptical, but he gets going anyway. His patients tell mesmerising stories. There’s Anthony, for instance, whoContinue reading “Q&A with Amanda Lohrey on Capture: Alien abduction, scepticism and psychiatric research”
Review: The Paradise Heights Miniature Railway Bust-Up, A Neuroaffirming Cosy Mystery
Something is amiss at the Paradise Heights Miniature Railway. And this suits Fleck Parker just fine – she’s on the hunt for a new puzzle to solve. Expensive equipment and supplies have disappeared and nobody knows why. Who could possibly wish harm on a community group delivering Sunday afternoon fun on a fleet of jollyContinue reading “Review: The Paradise Heights Miniature Railway Bust-Up, A Neuroaffirming Cosy Mystery”
Review: Reflecting on schizophrenia representation in The Sooner I Go
Seven months after her boyfriend and parents die tragically on the same night, eighteen-year-old Brynn—once an aspiring singer, now desperate for any paying gig that will keep her from ending up on the streets—sets out to rebuild her shattered world. At her new ad agency job, she’s distracted by enigmatic twenty-year-old Micah. Their enemies-to-lovers attractionContinue reading “Review: Reflecting on schizophrenia representation in The Sooner I Go”
Q&A with Lauren Keegan on The Woman in the Seal Skin
Set in Scotland in 1695, this is the story of Malie, a young woman struggling with grief, oppression, her relationship with nature and her own inherent wildness within during Europe’s ‘little ice age’. Malie grew up hearing tales of selkies: shape-shifting women who shed their seal skins to seduce fishermen on the Orkney shores. That’sContinue reading “Q&A with Lauren Keegan on The Woman in the Seal Skin”
Love is an Algorithm review: can compatibility be quantified?
Eve wants to make music that’s fuelled by love, passion, and rage (feelings!). She trusts her gut and her friends and in no way wants to rely on technology, let alone AI, to tell her how she feels. Danny is anxious – about his dad, his dating life, his coffee order (why is it twelveContinue reading “Love is an Algorithm review: can compatibility be quantified?”