Took me a while to get into, but once I did it was very enjoyable.

Banks clearly has a wonderful imagination, as well as a way with words, allowing him to describe bizarre and fantastic scenes with detail and humour. He gives us a space opera, but rather than a clone of Star Wars, it always feels fresh and surprising.

Funny, exciting, harrowing. A page turner.

An incredibly human account of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. A must read, both to understand the despicable crimes of Stalin and his ilk, but also to appreciate the depts of courage, organisation, and creativity that is displayed by people in revolutionary situations.

This is the first Stephen King book I’ve read, and I was pleasantly surprised by his writing style. While I think the changes made to the recent Carrie adaptation by Kimberly Pierce were for the better, I thought this original version of the story was good.

Wow, definitely joining Connie Willis's previous The Doomsday Book in my favourites list.

There is so much to love about To Say Nothing of the Dog. The wonderful and hilarious cast of characters, the humour (always hard to pull off in a book), the brilliantly intricate time travel plot (as well as an expansion of the wonderfully crafted mechanics, terminology, technology and sociology of time travel established in the previous book), the many references to history and Victorian literature, and the overall story that kept me laughing and smiling the whole way through.

A beautiful and thought provoking series of poems and essays on being Indigenous, the recent Australian bushfires, COVID, Australiana amongst other topics.