Set in rural England, 1989, The Perfect Golden Circle tells the story of two men who set out over the course of a summer to form elaborate crop circle patterns in the wheat fields under the cover of darkness. As their circles become increasingly intricate, their work gathers an international cult like following, pushing them … Continue reading Book Review: The Perfect Golden Circle by Benjamin Myers
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Book Review: Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
About the Book: From the author of the international bestseller Migrations comes a pulse-pounding new novel set in the wild Scottish Highlands. Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team tasked with reintroducing fourteen grey wolves into the remote Highlands. She hopes to heal not only the dying landscape, … Continue reading Book Review: Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
Book Review: Repentance by Alison Gibbs
Repentance... About the Book: It’s the summer of 1976, and the winds of change are blowing through the small town of Repentance on the edge of the Great Dividing Range. The old families farmed cattle and cut timber, but the new settlers, the hippies, have a different perspective on the natural order and humankind’s place … Continue reading Book Review: Repentance by Alison Gibbs
Book Review: The Breaking by Irma Gold
The Breaking… About the Book: Hannah Bird has just arrived in Thailand. Disoriented and out of her depth, she meets Deven, a fierce and gutsy Australian expat who sweeps her into thrilling adventures rescuing elephants. As they head deeper and deeper into the fraught world of elephant tourism, their lives become tangled in ways Hannah … Continue reading Book Review: The Breaking by Irma Gold
Book Review: The Mother Fault by Kate Mildenhall
The Mother Fault… About the Book: Imagining a near future as terrifying as Margaret Atwood’s Gilead, a riveting tale of one woman taking on the world to save her own. You will not recognise me, she thinks, when I find you . . . Mim’s husband is missing. No one knows where Ben is, but … Continue reading Book Review: The Mother Fault by Kate Mildenhall
Book Review: The Last Migration by Charlotte McConaghy
The Last Migration... About the Book: A dark past. An impossible journey. The will to survive. How far you would you go for love? Franny Stone is determined to go to the end of the earth, following the last of the Arctic terns on what may be their final migration to Antarctica. As animal populations … Continue reading Book Review: The Last Migration by Charlotte McConaghy
#MWFDIGITAL: How Crises Shape Literature
James Bradley (Ghost Species) and Caoilinn Hughes (The Wild Laughter) delivered an interesting session today on How Crises Shape Literature. Caoilinn's two novels play out against a backdrop of the Celtic Tiger; the Irish experience of the global financial crisis of the mid-2000s. James' work is all driven by the climate crisis. There was a … Continue reading #MWFDIGITAL: How Crises Shape Literature
Book Review: Wolfe Island by Lucy Treloar
Wolfe Island… About the Book: Kitty Hawke, the last inhabitant of a dying island sinking into the wind-lashed Chesapeake Bay, has resigned herself to annihilation... Until one night her granddaughter blows ashore in the midst of a storm, desperate, begging for sanctuary. For years, Kitty has kept herself to herself - with only the company … Continue reading Book Review: Wolfe Island by Lucy Treloar
Book Review: Greenwood by Michael Christie
Greenwood... About the Book: 2038. On a remote island off the Pacific coast of British Columbia stands the Greenwood Arboreal Cathedral, one of the world’s last forests. Wealthy tourists flock from all corners of the dust-choked globe to see the spectacle and remember what once was. But even as they breathe in the fresh air … Continue reading Book Review: Greenwood by Michael Christie
Book Review: Three Ways To Disappear by Katy Yocom
Three Ways To Disappear... About the Book: Leaving behind a nomadic and dangerous career as a journalist, Sarah DeVaughan returns to India, the country of her childhood and a place of unspeakable family tragedy, to help preserve the endangered Bengal tigers. Meanwhile, at home in Kentucky, her sister, Quinn—also deeply scarred by the past and … Continue reading Book Review: Three Ways To Disappear by Katy Yocom
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