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Review: Pan’s Labyrinth, by Cornelia Funke & Guillermo del Toro

July 28, 2019 by Rebecca Bowyer Leave a Comment

Pan's Labyrinth, by Cornelia Funke & Guillermo del Toro (sq)

Pan’s Labyrinth bears an unusual relation to the 2006 film of the same name. It is a film-to-book adaptation rather than vice versa. Best-selling author, Cornelia Funke, has written a novel inspired by Guillermo del Toro’s film. A very dark fairy tale for adults, Pan’s Labyrinth follows the plight of young Ofelia after she and her mother […]

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Review: Vox, by Christina Dalcher

June 30, 2019 by Rebecca Bowyer Leave a Comment

Vox by Christina Dalcher (square)

Could you survive on 100 words a day? As someone who loves to talk and write and read, Vox by Christina Dalcher was a nightmare read for me. In a near-future U.S. the alt-right has risen to power and put women in their place – in the home, serving men. Women and girls are fitted […]

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Hobart could be the Australian capital by 2221 thanks to global warming

June 27, 2019 by Rebecca Bowyer Leave a Comment

The Warming by Craig Ensor

Average sea levels have risen around 23 centimetres since 1880 and that rate is accelerating, with another 3.2mm of rise each year in 2019. What if that rate continues to accelerate as the polar ice caps melt and the water heats up? Most of the eastern seaboard of Australia would be underwater, drowning Melbourne, Sydney […]

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Review: Things in Jars, by Jess Kidd

June 10, 2019 by Rebecca Bowyer 1 Comment

Things in Jars by Jess Kidd

Things is Jars is like a female Sherlock Holmes story. Except Watson is a half-naked ghost – or possibly a drug-induced hallucination – in boxing shorts who has very little to contribute to the investigation. London, 1863. Bridie Devine, the finest female detective of her age, is taking on her toughest case yet. Reeling from […]

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Review: Daughter of Bad Times, by Rohan Wilson

May 22, 2019 by Rebecca Bowyer Leave a Comment

Daughter of Bad Times by Rohan Wilson

Daughter of Bad Times reads less like dystopian fiction and more like future history. The writing style makes it feel like a slightly dramatised reenactment of entirely plausible events. The only kicker is that these particular events haven’t happened – yet. In 2075 the seas have risen and swallowed up tiny island-based nations like the […]

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Review: The Book of Dreams, by Nina George

May 8, 2019 by Rebecca Bowyer Leave a Comment

The Book of Dreams by Nina George

Nina George’s incredible new novel, The Book of Dreams, is about the dream world that exists between life and death. 13-year-old Sam sees the world in colours and can sense things most others can’t. He meets his father, Henri, for the first time in hospital. Henri is in a deep coma after being struck by a […]

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