Posted on 12 Aug 2021 in Fiction, SFF |
Clare Moleta’s novel canvases big questions as a mother searches for her child in a hostile landscape. The opening scene of Clare Moleta’s debut novel describes two farmers standing in the rain. Their daughter runs towards them – she’s...
Posted on 10 Aug 2021 in Non-Fiction |
Michael Holding assembles a stellar array of champions to discuss their experiences of racism, Black achievements on and off the field, and finding a way forward. Michael Holding was a champion fast bowler and a member of the all-conquering West...
Posted on 5 Aug 2021 in Non-Fiction |
A reclusive scientist and a wild fox form an unusual bond in Catherine Raven’s memoir. I needed to be thinking of how my relationship with the fox began and why we rendezvoused every day at 4.15 p.m. We were meeting, after all, under odd and...
Posted on 3 Aug 2021 in Non-Fiction |
Part memoir, part urgent appeal, Claire Dunn’s new book explores how our urban lives can become more intimate with nature. For many of us, the world of lockdown has been about life inside four walls: comfy clothes, home schooling and baking...
Posted on 29 Jul 2021 in Crime Scene, Fiction |
The new thriller from the award-winning author of Call Me Evie and In the Clearing has a disturbing premise. New Zealand writer JP Pomare opens his sinister thriller setting a scene as though it were a movie set — which it will be, shortly. The...
Posted on 27 Jul 2021 in Fiction |
The new novel from the author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo explores the life of foreign workers on the island of Cyprus. The day that Nisha vanished, before I even realized she’d gone, I saw in the forest a mouflon ovis. I thought it was odd. These...