Stella Prize long-listed author Sonya Voumard’s Skin in the Game is original, incisive and hugely entertaining. Skin in the Game Synopsis: The Pleasure and Pain of Telling True Stories The daughter of a European refugee mother and a journalist father, Voumard recounts with aplomb her passionate … [Read more...]
YAK GIRL, Dorje Dolma on Growing Up in the Remote Dolpo Region of Nepal
Today we welcome Dorje Dolma to share with us what inspired her to write her memoir Yak Girl: Growing Up in the Remote Dolpo Region of Nepal, the first ever from a Dolpo native, and her new goal now that the book is in print. I started writing Yak Girl: Growing Up in the Remote Dolpo Region … [Read more...]
Book Review – MOMO FREAKS OUT by Samone Bos
Wanderlust on the Web and Finding a Way Home Momo Freaks Out Synopsis : A long time ago, way before Facebook and Instagram, and when no one had even considered Snapchat, there were blogs. One day, bored at work, Momo, a typical twenty-something, discovered this curious new underworld of secret … [Read more...]
ROSETTA, A Scandalous True Story by Alexandra Joel – Book Review
The scandalous Australian woman who enchanted British society Rosetta Synopsis: Headstrong and beautiful, in 1905 Rosetta escaped her safe Melbourne life, deserting her respectable husband and five-year-old daughter to run away with Zeno the Magnificent, a half-Chinese fortune teller and seducer … [Read more...]
Mr Snack & the Lady Water by Brendan Shanahan and Wonder Cruise by Ursula Bloom, Reviews
Two titles with a travel theme - Ursula Bloom's romantic fiction Wonder Cruise and Mr Snack and the Lady Water, a collection of travel essays from Brendan Shanahan. Wonder Cruise Synopsis Ann Clements is thirty-five and single, and believes nothing exciting will ever happen to her. Then, she … [Read more...]
JANE DOE JANUARY by Emily Winslow, Book Review
Jane Doe January is the searingly honest memoir from crime fiction author Emily Winslow, once a real-life victim of rape. Jane Doe January Synopsis: My Twenty-Year Search for Truth and Justice Emily Winslow was a young drama student at an elite conservatory in Pittsburgh when she was brutally … [Read more...]
Book Review – I WAS TOLD THERE’D BE CAKE by Sloane Crosley
I Was Told There'd Be Cake Synopsis : Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays is a celebration of fallibility and haplessness in all their glory. From despoiling an exhibit at the Natural History Museum to provoking the ire of her first boss to siccing the … [Read more...]
Book Review – LION ATTACK! by Oliver Mol
Lion Attack! Synopsis : From an inaugural winner of the Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers comes a funny, energetic coming-of-age story that isn’t quite like any other book you’ll read this year. Oliver is a writer who’s just moved cities. He doesn’t have any friends yet; he can’t get his … [Read more...]