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An excellent work of literary fiction: Ripple: A Tale of Hope and Redemption...
This is an excellent work of literary fiction, well written, moving and thought provoking, in fact, at times, downright disturbing. Truly, if we didn’t find it disturbing, there’d be something wrong...
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Simply excellent YA literary fiction: ‘Scratches on the Surface’ by Aaron...
Scratches on the surface is an excellent book. The beginning is riveting. A group of teenage boys give Derek a severe bashing and leave him bleeding in a field, but one of the boys, overcome with...
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Intense moving literary fiction: I Run by E.L Farris
I Run is the story of a woman battling the demons of her childhood, an addictive personality and an injured body in an attempt to get her inner life together. I always thought that running was a...
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Lessons Learned from Broken Characters: Discover Laurie Boris
Meet Awesome Indies author Laurie Boris. I’ve heard that her books are really good. I’m a bit different from some authors. Instead of outlining and building a character from scratch, I let one fall...
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Lovely & very different: Lifeform Three by Roz Morris
I love different books and this certainly is one. I love great prose, and this book has it, and I love a book that’s sleek and focused, just as this one is. It’s a five star delight, a balm for a...
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Literary Fiction: Not an Excuse for Boring
Literary fiction is supposed to be a category for beautifully written, moving fiction that crosses genres or otherwise doesn’t fit into the genre categories. It’s supposed to deal with ‘deeper’ themes...
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Powerful and moving. ‘Checkpoint Kalandia’– a book everyone should read.
Checkpoint Kalandia is a powerful and absorbing read, a book for our times, and one that everyone should read. It takes you into the heart and minds of a family living under Israeli occupation, and...
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Lit Fic: redefining a genre
Sometimes I look at the books that do the best—thrillers, mysteries and romance do well—and I wonder if I wrote something in a popular genre, would it sell better than my slightly out of the box...
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Intriguing – a review of ‘Tom Houghton’ by Todd Alexander
Tom Houghton is a well-written story about a complex and tortured character. It juxtaposes the past with the present to give us some understanding of why the adult Tom is the way he is. The result is...
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Fine literature: Review of The Colour of Light by Emilie Richards
Minister Analiese Wagner faces a challenge when a homeless family camps on the church’s grounds one freezing evening. She decides to let them move into the empty apartment upstairs, even though it’s...
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A book for pet lovers: Lily and the Octopus Review
When I first started reading this, I felt that had the growth on the dog’s head not been called an octopus, the book wouldn’t have been at all interesting. It was just a story about a man who...
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An Interview with author Florence Osmund
Meet Florence Osmund, an author whose books you know are quality because they have Awesome Indies Approval. Her books would suit people who like fiction that gets to the nitty gritty of life. You can...
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Review of ‘Seven Perfect Things’ by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Watch my video review of Seven Perfect Things, a contempory fiction novel by Catherine Ryan Hyde to see what I thought of it and what makes it work as a story. The video has subtitles so you can read...
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