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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Clem Ford, 2 kids for sale and a few vampires – Story Addict Podcast
In this episode of Story Addict I’m talking about Clementine Ford’s upcoming book, Boys Will Be Boys, as well as my thoughts on her first book, Fight Like A Girl. I’ll also tell you about a new release historical fiction, Sold on a Monday, based on the true Depression-era photograph of two children with a ‘For Sale’ sign next to […]
Book review: Strangers With The Same Dream, by Alison Pick
Strangers with the Same Dream, by Alison Pick, is the story of a group of Jewish idealists struggling to found a kibbutz in harsh conditions in 1920s Palestine. Alison Pick writes with masterful skill and captures the hopes, delusions and horrors of pioneer settlement life with shocking clarity. I nearly put the book down and […]
Book review: A Superior Spectre, by Angela Meyer
A Superior Spectre, by Angela Meyer, is based on a fascinating premise of time travel by haunting. Leonora is a fabulously strong 1860s character. Raised by her father in the Scottish Highlands after her mother dies in Edinburgh, she wants nothing more than to tend to the animals and crops. Then the local laird takes […]
Book review: The Wild Dead, by Carrie Vaughn
The Wild Dead, by Carrie Vaughn, is the second book in the Bannerless series. It’s part of a new wave of popular science fiction that, at its core, is about fertility and parenting. A very different kind of post apocalyptic world is imagined by Vaughn, one where people have figured out how to live together […]
Book review: The Water Cure, by Sophie Mackintosh
Oh my. Where to start? The Water Cure is a seriously strange, dark, twisted, warped story about three sisters and their parents living in near-isolation on an island. Set in the near future where the environment itself – and men in particular – is literally making women sick. Years ago, Mother and ‘King’ withdrew their family […]