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Embedded: An accessible mind-bending sci-fi that’ll claim your afternoon

Embedded: An accessible mind-bending sci-fi that’ll claim your afternoon

by Lachlan Liesfield | Nov 18, 2017 | Book Reviews, Featured, Society

Embedded presents something different in the Sci-Fi genre. Technology is not just introduced, it evolves alongside the narrative.

Kamel Daoud subverts Albert Camus in absurd, comic take

Kamel Daoud subverts Albert Camus in absurd, comic take

by Lachlan Liesfield | Nov 11, 2017 | Book Reviews, Featured, Society

While Kamel Daoud’s book is a classic subversion of Albert Camus’ classic, something far more meaningful breathes just below the surface.

What Star Wars needs from Lord of the Rings

What Star Wars needs from Lord of the Rings

by Lachlan Liesfield | Sep 5, 2015 | Entertainment, Featured, Society

With the new Star Wars installment growing ever closer, Lachlan Liesfield is hoping for a change of tack, following Tolkien’s example of less is more.

Liesfield’s Inferno: Three books he’d save in a fire

Liesfield’s Inferno: Three books he’d save in a fire

by Lachlan Liesfield | Aug 8, 2015 | Book Reviews, Featured, Society

Continuing on with last week’s narrative thread, we asked writer Lachlan Liesfield what books he’d plunge himself into an inferno to save.

Book review: Officers and Gentlemen – Evelyn Waugh

Book review: Officers and Gentlemen – Evelyn Waugh

by Lachlan Liesfield | Jul 18, 2015 | Book Reviews, Society

Lachlan Liesfield wanders through Evelyn Waugh’s lucid WW2 novel “Officers and Gentlemen”, which, despite it’s problems, loses none of its power to drag you in.

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