A sad story about love, loss, regret, guilt, a long strained marriage, what it takes to be a writer and the fluidity of time and memories. This is all blended in with a ghostly tale …
This excellently written …
A breathless, captivating art heist thriller that is also about the purpose of art and the sense of identity . Who owns art stolen by conquerors? This book deals with Chinese art but the same applies here in Australia with …
A gripping book, magnificently written, this is the fifth book in the detective Dave Burrows series .It is divided into short gulps of thirty chapters and there is a Prologue and Epilogue.
Readers learn a lot about life in an …
Love & Virtue by Diana Reid (Ultimo) has won the fifth annual MUD Literary Prize.
Presented each year for the best debut literary novel by an Australian writer, the $5000 prize is awarded by Adelaide philanthropic group MUD Literary Club.…
Waverley Council is delighted to announce the winners of the 2021 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, Australia’s national literary awards celebrating excellence in research and writing.
Queensland’s Luke Stegemann won the Mark and Evette Moran Literary Award, …
From the author of Josephine’s Garden, this is a rather complicated but stirring tale set in the early 1800’s when Napoleon ruled .This is Stephanie Parkyn’s third historical novel .It is of medium size and thickness and divided into thirty …
This latest book by Barry Maitland is extremely well crafted, written and plotted, with many surprising twists upon the way. The shifting between characters and locations is excellently handled.It is a great page turner you anxiously want to find out …
Varuna the National Writers’ House has announced the recipients of the Varuna Residential Fellowships for 2022.
The writers and their projects are:
The Eleanor Dark flagship fellowship
This is a mesmerising, powerful book. It is superbly written with the language evocative and visually exciting.
The themes of the book include the inspiration for art, whether the restoration of an art work actually preserves it or rather …
A most thrilling, exciting adventure for all of us who are Phryne Fisher fans.
Eagerly anticipated this is the first Phryne Fisher mystery since 2013. (Not forgetting the TV series and the film Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears). …