From its incendiary opening to its gut punch ending, Mali Cornish’s THE MISSING MOTHER is a thriller you won’t want to miss.
There’s something wrong in Geelong, with the boarding schools and scabby bus kids, the waterfront and the oil …
See what they did there?
The beginning of Chapter Thirteen, the final chapter of Anne Buist and Graeme Simsion collaborative and compulsively readable new book, THE GENERAL HOSPITAL, starts with an allusion to an iconic movie and in a literary …
My feed is populated by irrelevant posts; unrequested, unrequired, mostly needing a requiem. Plucking interesting, possibly relevant ones, is a dicey game of hit and miss. So when a woman talks about the complexities of her marriage publicly, it moves …
It’s important, nay a prerequisite, to be briefed about current state of affairs . This novel written in 1984 by Italian author Andrea de Carlo is prophetic in its prescience about dictatorships, with a twist. Satire has always been a …
We perhaps should tread wearily engaged in our easy lives, unconcerned by the hard life that people of earlier years had to endure. Robert’s wife dies of encephalitis; his daughter of the Mexican flue outbreak that all but wiped out …
Didactic utopias are easy to mock and criticise, which is probably why dystopia has become a more popular genre. I have trouble thinking more than twenty years ahead without the ugly sceptre of pessimism cantering my brain and its …
If ever a novel was prescient about what is occurring in America now, then this book written by Sinclair Lewis is the one hooting its clarion call. In 1930, Sinclair became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for …
Follow that cad!
Patricia A. O’Brien’s ERROL FLYNN seeks to dig beneath the American myth of Errol Flynn to uncover the Australian man, tracing the odyssey from his Hobart birth to his Hollywood burial and his cultural afterlife.
Errol Flynn’s …
“The internet is the fiery bowels of hell.” says a major character in Sarah Bailey’s latest thriller, CLICK.
Set in the first month of 2020 just before the catastrophe of the Covid 19 pandemic, CLICK also …
All men are rapacious.
That’s the spear gun point in the shape shifting narrative, THE SHARK, by Emma Styles. She proclaims she writes Australian crime fiction about young women taking on the patriarchy and that’s what she has done in …