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How Literature Explores Time Travel

by Madeleine Rose Jones | Feb 8, 2021 | History

If you could go back in time, what era would you go to? Would you want to see the future in 200 years’ time? If you could kill Hitler as a baby, would you? Although time travel does not exist, it is a key feature of speculative fiction and dinner time conversations....

Why You Should Read Utopian Man By Lisa Lang

by Madeleine Rose Jones | Dec 4, 2020 | Book Recommendations, literature

Note: This post does not contain spoilers. Have you taken a risk recently with your reading? Picked a book based on its cover or premise? I did, and the novel is called Utopian Man. It won the Vogel Prize in 2009, an award for first time authors in Australia. The...

The Tolstoy Estate by Steven Conte: Book Review

by Madeleine Rose Jones | Dec 3, 2020 | Book Reviews, literature

This review does not contain spoilers. Not all books grab you immediately. Some take time to win you over, but once they have, you’ll have no choice but to adore. The Tolstoy Estate by Australian author Steven Conte starts off rather plain, but the subject...