This new angle on 'Pride and Prejudice' looks at the events that take place in that classic novel through the eyes of Mary Bennet. The part of the book that takes place during the Pride and Prejudice storyline is a tough read…
I wasn’t sure if I was going to like Longbourn … reading about the servants’ impoverished lives behind the scenes of the Pride and Prejudice story didn’t immediately grip me, but by the second chapter I was hooked. There’s something about the…
Miss Benson’s Beetle is a weird and joyous journey to the other side of the world in search of a beetle. It's also about how Miss Benson figures out how to be a true expression of herself by shucking off other people’s…
Boy Swallows Universe, by Trent Dalton, smashes down preconceptions about what it’s like to grow up in a household with a convicted murderer as your babysitter, a mother who is a heroin addict until she isn’t, and a father who apparently tried…