Here’s another great read of 2015. Elizabeth Gilbert’s latest release had a pretty big bandwagon before it was even published, and I’m very happy to join it. This book is full of down-to-earth advice and insight for creative types. If you want to release your inner artist in 2016, I highly recommend reading Big Magic (if […]
One of the joys of my studies this year has been coming across so many brilliant books that might otherwise be out of my usual reading range. Australian author Claire Zorn’s YA book The Sky So Heavy is one of these. Fin is just a regular kid at school, getting by in class and trying to suss out how to […]
My favourite book character of 2015 comes from Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey. Maud might be losing her mind, but she is sure that her friend is missing, and she’s determined to find out what has happened to her. This is such a bittersweet, intimate portrayal of dementia, and Maud and her tins of peach slices will […]
I read a short story in 2015 that left me staring at the wall in dumbfounded awe while I tried to absorb it. The story is ‘The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas’ by Ursula Le Guin, written in 1973. I’m not even going to try to sum it up, I’m just going to urge you […]
A few months ago I listened to Carl Honore discuss ‘the slow movement’. He is a great speaker – and as with all those wise motivational people around us, he wasn’t so much telling us things we didn’t know but reminding us to take time to listen to our inner voice and reflect on our […]
My Book of the Year: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr ‘The brain is locked in total darkness, of course, children, says the voice. It floats in a clear liquid inside the skull, never in the light. And yet the world it constructs in the mind is full of light. It brims […]
The cover for All That is Lost Between Us has just been revealed exclusively on Write Note Reviews. Simon & Schuster Australia have done a brilliant job and I’m in love with this cover – I hope you like it as much as I do. col-md-2
Seventeen-year-old Georgia has a secret – one that is isolating her from everyone she loves. She is desperate to tell her best friend, but Sophia is ignoring her, and she doesn’t know why. Before she can find out, Sophia is left fighting for her life after a hit and run, with Georgia a traumatised witness.
Jenn J McLeod is releasing a new book just in time for Mother’s Day – and thanks to the lovely people at Simon & Schuster I have one copy to give away. Here’s the enticing blurb for Season of Shadow and Light: When it seems everything Paige trusts is beginning to betray her, she leaves […]
