In this episode of Story Addict I have TWO new releases for you plus one of my all-time favourite speculative fiction novels, The Time Traveller’s Wife. Plus I’ll discuss the question everyone seems to be asking at the moment – have our kids forgotten how to read ‘properly’? Listen to Season 1, Episode 2 Listen here […]
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Book review: How To Be Perfect, by Holly Wainwright
Holly Wainwright is a natural storyteller and she’s back with another rollicking good read, How To Be Perfect. Just like her first novel, The Mummy Bloggers, it’s packed with perceptive insights into parenting, hilarious observations on modern life and more than a few heart-in-mouth moments. It’s the perfect book to read when you want something light, familiar […]
Book review: Ghosted, by Rosie Walsh
Ghosted, by Rosie Walsh, is one of those rare gems of a book that is set in the modern world, involves a love story about two people over the age of 30 and is brilliantly written. It also comes with a killer twist. ‘Ghosted’ is a term that has been coined in recent years for […]
Book review: You Wish, by Lia Weston
What if you could erase your ex from your history entirely? What if you could go back and change that hideous choice of wedding dress you made 30 years ago? Or watch your deceased child grow into adulthood, picture by picture? You wish. Enter IF, the Melbourne-based creative team, headed by Tom Lash, which can […]
Book review: The Break, by Katherena Vermette
When Margaret Atwood describes a book as ‘very tough and real’ you know you’re in for a hard few hundred pages. Reading the multi award-winning novel, The Break by Katherena Vermette was like being wounded in a thousand small ways, both through the story itself and the resurrection of my own memories. A 13-year-old girl […]
Book review: Lullaby, by Leila Slimani
Leïla Slimani’s best-selling novel Lullaby is a The Hand That Rocks The Cradle-style creepy thriller about a seemingly perfect Parisian nanny who murders her charges. The very first paragraph in the book describes the crime in gruesome detail: The little girl was still alive when the ambulance arrived. She’d fought like a wild animal. They found […]