Welcome to a special interview with Laura Elliott, author of the gripping near-future thriller Awakened. We dive into the story’s chilling world of sleeplessness, collapsing civilisation, and a small group of scientists grappling with the consequences of their own creation - and explore the book’s thoughtful representation of ME and chronic illness. The Pedantic Zebra Book Club, is our disability and chronic illness reading collective. IMPORTANT NOTE: We’ve moved our book clu

This is a bit more of a personal post - exciting but with a twist. Like Benton Fraser, in Due South (one for the Gen X’ers), we are having a temporary directional change with a new sister project, @cripademia and a book!

The divergent social perceptions that The Salt Path offered - Saint or Sinner - was never a fair binary for people with illness or, from what it seems, rooted in reality.