I'm never sure how to write about a book I love. Sometimes I write lists of books I've found wonderful or useful. Occasionally, I've written about unfamiliar words - to me at least - from something I've read. This book is different though. It's a book I've read a few times and always find something new and meaningful.

I don't read many graphic novels but the ones I have, I love. If you're unsure of the correct terminology - is this a graphic novel or a comic book - here’s a description I’ve come up with from my quick internet search that hopefully clears this up.

For the past couple of months, I've been reading the novel Fayne by Ann-Marie Macdonald. At 736 pages it's a big book requiring a big commitment. Strangely I wasn't put off by its size. My daughters laugh at me when I describe movies as being 'okay, but too long'. I get fidgety in films that are longer than two hours. 

Books can be armour. Or they can be a weapon, an escape, or a dream. They can make us weep or swear or laugh out loud. Books are powerful. In HBO's show, The White Lotus, books, specifically 'the holiday read' are there to impress.

A list of books I’ve read about the craft of creative writing, along with how to improve your prose and philosophical thoughts on the process.

25 books from short stories to memoirs to fiction inspired by the Indigenous experience. Plus books for younger people and non-fiction works about the traumatic effects of colonialism.

My grandmother gave me this book, a book showing Libya, the country of my birth, before the revolution of 1969.

The illustrations and stories in Dean’s Gift Book of Fairy Tales fired my imagination with stories of witches, princesses and long-lost children. Read more here.

Some thoughts about one of my favourite non-fiction books, The Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky.