Top 10 Books of 2020
Happy new year! In no particular order, these were my favourite reads from the last 12 months (not necessarily published in 2020). I…
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Top Ten Lists on various themes
Top 10 Books of 2018
I’ve been in a reading malaise for a while now, and due to some things going on in my personal life, when I…
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Top 10: Books About Marriage
The novel I’m writing, the first in a series tentatively titled Monkey See, centres on the lives of a couple who’ve been married…
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Top 10 Books of My 30s
After the halcyon days of my twenties, when I was reading a couple of books a week, my son was born when I…
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Top 10 Books of 2017
Last year, I didn’t read anywhere near as many books as I usually do. I was off reading in a way I’ve never…
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20 Favourite Books from my 20s
My 20s were perhaps the most exciting reading period of my life. When they began I was studying literature at university, including two…
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Top 10 Books I Loved as a Teenager
This list of my favourite books from my teenage years is inspired by Kate Forsyth, who celebrated her 50th birthday by writing a…
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Top 10: Favourite Childhood Books
This list of my favourite childhood books is inspired by Kate Forsyth, who celebrated her 50th birthday by writing a list of 50…
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Loveable Rogues: 10 Books with Flawed Characters
My novel Monkey See features a trio of unlikely heroes, one of whom is Danior, a jaded, cocaine-addicted gambler, who’ll pawn his best…
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Speak, Memory: 10 Books on Remembering & Forgetting
In my novel Monkey See, millions of people are affected by a disease known as RONDS: Rapid Onset Neural Degeneration Syndrome, which has similar symptoms…
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