What We’ve Been Reading this Month
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino If you were looking for a slightly confusing, low-key frustrating page turner to occupy you on a rainy day then…
Scribblers Festival: Words with Katherine Dorrington
Scribblers is a new annual festival celebrating children’s literature. It has been developed as part of FORM’s Creative Learning Program, which aims to equip children and young adults with the…
Don’t be Frightened by Doorstopper Books
To the average reader, Victorian era literature can be suffocating. Victorian literature has a certain reputation for overly long and boring books in which polite people get offended and worry…
How to have a graphic summer
Graphic Literature (aka comics for grownups) now makes up one of the most exciting and dynamic genres around.
My Hugo Must Be Acknowledged
The Hugo and Nebula awards for Sci-Fi and Fantasy are held annually, open to the public and decided upon by popular vote. Past winners include Heinlein, Phillip K. Dick, Frank…
Revival by Stephen King
In keeping with the theme of firsts, this was the first time I’d actually read a Stephen King novel. I wasn’t disappointed. I’ll be the first to admit that I’m…
Little Pretty Pocket Books and Murderous Clones: The Dark and Puritanical Heritage of Kids’ Lit
It would be grossly naive to think children’s stories are undeserving of serious consideration. Prevailingly though, they’re seen as the ‘paddling pool’ of literature; a place we glibly float before…