Here’s a list of some of my favourite books I read this year, put together very unscientifically by glancing at my book shelves and picking through the pile (wall, really, I have enough books to make a wall) next to my bed. No doubt I have missed out on a bunch of brilliant ones and […]
Salon’s Ultimate Book Guide 2013 asked writers from Junot Díaz to Lee Child to recommend their favourite books they read this year. (I raved about Max Barry’s Lexicon, a smart, twisty thriller that turns into something profoundly more ambitious and surprising with brutality, beauty and empathy). I was blown away by Joe Hill‘s write up on […]
There have been a lot of moving tributes to Mandela and what this country has come through over the last few days. One which touched me most is the most personal, a letter from my husband, Matthew Brown, to a seven year old kid he’s never met. My American friend Alan wrote me an email […]
RIP Nelson Mandela. Your fight, your ability to forgive, your faith in all of us to live up to our humanity lives on. You weren’t a symbol, you were a man, and that’s a lot harder. May we be haunted, in the best possible way, by your spirit of reconciliation. May we live up to what […]
Forbidden Planet asked me to write about some of my favourite books, comics and TV shows from 2013, from The Oatmeal’s personal essays to Ed Brubaker and Sean Philips Fatale, Charlie Human’s Apocalypse Now Now, Caitlin Kittredge and Inaki Miranda’s comic, Coffin Hill, Joe Hill’s Locke & Key and Sara Gran’s Claire de Witt and […]