Brave! That’s what I would call Charlotte Wood, having just finished reading her Stella Award novel, ‘The Natural Way of Things’. The first thought that fixes in my mind is “unnatural”, and this novel is disturbing, to say the least. I have had friends say they...
Baby Boomers! Do come along to this after work on Wednesday evening. We will have a wow of a time with bubbly/wine/beer and tapas at the Bookplate Restaurant on Wednesday evening at 5:45pm. A great place to come after work and be entertained by one of...
Nigel Featherstone’s prose in The Beach Volcano is ample evidence of his literary writing skills. His mastery of nuance and clever character development techniques combine to drive the plot inexorably forward, and this novella is a compelling one, from beginning to...
Richard Glover conducts a heartfelt, meticulous autopsy of his key family relationships in Flesh Wounds. The result? We get the sinister and the sensitive, the heart-wrenching and the uplifting, the humorous and the melancholy, the hubris and the intellect — but wait...
Strong, on slender legs You strut, racehorse, a winner One day, and now gone! We have one planet. Blue earth of beauty, yet we Trash you without care. What is my role? Is My voice to be heard among The chorus of...
