Apocalypse stories are a guilty pleasure of mine, so I was eager to dig into Salvation Reigned. It’s a bit of hard book to categorize, and that’s part of its charm. On the surface it’s a science fiction disaster story, but underneath it’s something closer to a fever dream about the end of the world […]

As the title signposts, I Get Knocked Down is a collection of deeply personal poems that tackle some difficult subjects. Poetry can be tricky to review because it’s such a personal form of writing, and what resonates with one reader may not with another, but I found this to be a genuinely moving collection. Although […]

Black River by Yvonne Osborne, the follow-up to 2024’s Let Evening Come, is a literary rural noir set in the lowlands of Michigan farm country. If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if Where the Crawdads Sing sat down for a drink with a William Faulkner novel and a touch of Romeo and Juliet, this is roughly the result. […]

The Sizable Problems With an Interspecies Relationship by Belladonna Bryson, originally released in 2024 with a one-year anniversary edition out in March 2025, is a debut fantasy romance that reads like a love letter to the energy of mid-2000s teen fantasy. If you have ever wondered what would happen if Sky High, Zootopia, and a […]

The Hierarchy of Angels by William Whitley, released in May 2026, is a debut novel that drops readers straight into a richly imagined alternate-history world that feels like a lost Jules Verne epic, with strong shades of Philip Reeve’s Mortal Engines thrown in for good measure. It is a steampunk adventure, but a particularly grounded […]

How to Sit With Someone: Peer Support Skills for Connection & Mental Health is a short and accessible guide by John F. Gerrard on the often-overlooked craft of being there for someone in distress. Drawing on his training as a peer support worker with the Canadian Mental Health Association, as well as his own lived […]

First published in November 2025, I Fall to Pieces is the first entry in Dani Lewis’s Cassie Hunt series, and it is one of the most hilarious mysteries I’ve read in quite some time. Blending dark humour, crime and an unforgettable narrative voice, it manages to feel familiar enough for fans of the mystery genre while also […]

Some books feel like they were made to be discovered on a school library shelf, shoved into a bag and finished in one sitting. Wyatt Moore’s second novel after 7 Days to Die is that kind of book. The Dyre Prophecy follows fourteen-year-old Kevin Greene, who returns to his small hometown of Dyre, Nevada after a […]

If you’re looking for a quick read that punches above its weight, The Performance Review by Adrian M. Mompoint is a very short, enjoyable, and mind-bending story. I was initially uncertain about what to expect, but I ended up enjoying it far more than I anticipated. It’s the type of story that would translate exceptionally well […]

Published 17 February 2026, Off Script: The Actor’s Operating System is a practical guide for actors. The book has a unique approach to acting based on Marquez’s ‘operating system’ idea, drawing on years of the author’s experience as an actor. It is obviously primarily aimed at actors who want to improve their craft. To preface, […]

Released in 2019, The Last Diaspora: Letters to Earth by Mandy Gardner is the first in a five-book sci-fi series about planetary colonisation, published by Endless Ink Publishing. While comparisons inevitably arise to Interstellar and Andy Weir novels like The Martian, this novel carves out its own distinctive voice. Though there are echoes of familiar space-faring stories, Letters to Earth […]

The Dreamer’s Path: Twin Peaks and David Lynch the Actor by Brent Simon, published in February 2026, is one of those wonderfully obsessive books that feels less like a standard film study and more like stumbling into a hidden archive assembled by someone who genuinely loved his subject. As someone whose own relationship with David […]