Title: MADIGAN MINE Publisher: Picador Author: Kirstyn McDermott Edition released: 2010 ISBN: 9780330425711 303 pages Reviewed by: Adam Donnison Madigan, the childhood friend that went away, grew up and returned - to throw chaos into the life o… more »

An interesting set of talks today at AussieCon 4. There were so many more I would have liked to have seen, but packing the huge number of topics into a tight schedule will always result in those sorts of tradeoffs. First up, a subject dear to my hea… more »

I was tempted to title this "From Stiletto to Steel Cap - the fashions of AussieCon", although at least one other blogger has already touched on this subject, so perhaps not. For me today's running sheet started with "To Eternity and Beyond" - about… more »

This was the first WorldCon that I'd ever been to, and since it was in my erstwhile home town for only the fourth time in its 68th iteration, it was a chance I was not going to miss. I had been involved in conventions before, but usually as a presenter… more »

Title: THE GOOD GUY Publisher: Harper Author: Dean Koontz Edition released: 2007 ISBN: 978-0-00-722660-3 456 pages Reviewed by: Adam Donnison Sitting in your favourite bar, trading sarcastic commentaries on life with the barman, you don't expec… more »