Gumshoes around the gum trees, bush noir, whatever the catch phrase for outback or rural Australia crime fiction, carve a new name into the bark , Ronni Salt, with the debut novel, GUNNAWAH.
It’s 1974 in the Riverina and there’s …
T’is the season for reading. Buying books for gifting or for personal downtime, slung in hammocks, lost in the pages, what bliss. Always a reliable guide of what to choose is the December issue of the Australian Book Review.
This …
“In the old days if an agent did something embarrassing he’d have the good sense to defect. Christ I miss the Cold War.” says M in the film Casino Royale.
That nostalgia for Iron Curtains, Checkpoint Charlies, Warsaw Pacts …
Say hello to his not so little life!
Al Pacino’s autobiography, SONNY BOY, is something to savour, but you’ll gulp it down anyway. Savour it like a glutton.
Whattayagot!? Here’s the story. A kid growing up the South Bronx, kinda …
The finest literary historical novel in a long time, Emily Maguire’s RAPTURE is a rich, multi layered and profoundly satisfying read.
Sensuous and spell binding, RAPTURE brings the legend of a female pope to fully fleshed and rapturous fruition, a …
Hammer nails it again with his latest crime thriller, THE VALLEY.
Taking the template of a rip roaring western and fashioning it around an historic homicide and a current killing, THE VALLEY is resplendent with the greed feeding lust for …
A gripping, excellently written page turner with lots of unexpected twists and turns, Of medium size and thickness, it has a Prologue and Epilogue and is divided into fifty nine chapters , some only a page long . It jumps …
I have just purchased the most delightful book. The title kind of gives it away -yes, it is about music and is a compact guide for adults embarking on that scary journey – learning or relearning a musical instrument. Being …
An alternative title for this fascinating, disturbing book could be Paris in Tears. Pulitzer Prize winning Smee looks at the way art and politics are combined and how women were so restricted at the time, yet some fought …
The 2024 NSW Premier’s History Awards, with $85,000 in prize money, were announced TONIGHT [6 September 2024] at the State Library of NSW as part of NSW History Week.
Premier of NSW, Chris Minns said: “Historians have the unique ability …