All the Good Things is about a 21-year-old woman tries to make sense of her life while in jail for a crime she has difficulty confronting. Beth has been bounced from one foster carer to another in and around London since before she started school. Eventually the path of her life leads to a jail […]
contemporary fiction
Book review: Life After Coffee, by Virginia Franken
It’s got ‘Coffee’ in the title, it’s about a nowhere-near-perfect mother and it’s funny. That was enough to convince me to open Life After Coffee, the debut novel from Virginia Franken. After the first few paragraphs I had several problems: I couldn’t put it down I drove everyone around me nuts by reading them out […]
Review: Like I Can Love, by Kim Lock
‘Why doesn’t she just leave?’ ‘How could she kill herself and leave her baby behind?’ These are seemingly-simple questions with not-so-simple answers. Kim Lock answers all of them in horrifying and convincing detail in her new novel, Like I Can Love. About Like I Can Love Fairlie and her best friend Jenna lived happily together in their tiny […]
Kim Lock – Aussie Author Interview
Kim Lock is an Australian fiction author, mother, breastfeeding counsellor and active feminist. Her second novel, Like I Can Love, will be released by Pan Macmillan Australia on 23 March 2016. I’m thrilled to have Kim Lock with us on the blog today to tell us about her new novel of family secrets and suicide […]
Review: Looking for Alaska, by John Green
I discovered John Green through his best-seller The Fault in Our Stars. I loved it so much I went looking for other books he’s written. Turns out he’s written quite a few. Five, to be precise. Plus a novella, short stories, reviews, articles for mental floss and a bunch of other stuff. I chose Looking for […]
Season of Salt & Honey – author interview with Hannah Tunnicliffe
He always laughed more after surfing. His body was loose, his shoulders relaxed. He’d be tired, but somehow filled up from the inside. His hair thick with salt, dried crispy; the whites of his eyes pink; the skin on his hands tanned from the sunlight reflecting off the glassy surface of the water. And that […]
