Reviewsday: Hogfather
You can’t kill Anthropomorphic Personifications…or at least that’s what everyone thought. Everyone, but Mr Teatime. There is a plot afoot to kill the fat man and only Susan Sto-Helit and her handy poker can stave it off… To be fair, she doesn’t want to stave it off. She’d much prefer to be normal. But she […]
Reviewsday: Lost Brisbane
As a Brisbanite born and bred I was fascinated by this beautiful coffee table book. To be honest, I was looking for some of my relatives at the beginning (because we all want to be related to someone famous) but the more I looked, the more I was engrossed by the history and beauty of […]
Reviewsday: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
When Rosemary Cooke was growing up she had a sister called Fern and a brother called Lowell, now she has neither. After Fern disappeared Lowell left at the first chance he got. They are a family shaped forever by the trauma of Fern’s mysterious disappearance. The novel starts in the middle of the story, when […]
Reviewsday: Slow Regard of Silent Things
“You might not want to buy this book.” So begins Patrick Rothfuss’ foreword to his latest offering, a little gem of a novella called The Slow Regard of Silent Things. Now that’s not exactly what you’d expect an author to say about his own book, but he goes on to list two reasons as to […]
