Can you forget committing a murder?
This is a gripping, compulsive page turner of a book with unexpected twists. It is the third in the Detective Harbinder Kaur series, divided into forty seven chapters and a prologue and epilogue.
In …
The latest book by Lucy Worsley is a fascinating, complex, comprehensively researched biography of Agatha Christie (1890-1976), ‘The Queen of Crime’, who has provided us with both Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. It is divided into ten parts and forty-one …
This month’s Dymocks Literary Luncheon guest speaker was Gary Jubelin who spoke about his new publication BADNESS.
Jubelin, worked for over thirty years as a leading detective in the Homicide Squad. In 2020 he was found guilty of illicitly recording …
An exquisite visual feast, while somewhat minimalist perhaps, this is a stunning book that examines the work of Australian glass artist Jessica Loughlin, based in Adelaide. FROM HERE is a large, sumptuously illustrated coffee table book full of insights into …
Most of us have heard of George, Paul, Ringo and John or even Mick and Keith, so who is Tony Hadley?
If you are a fan of New Romantic Pop you will know that Tony Hadley was the lead singer …
Maggie O’Farrell’s latest book is totally captivating and enthralling, magnificently written, and brings Lucrezia de’ Medici d’Este (1545-1561) vividly to life.
Inspired by Robert Browning’s poem ‘ My Last Duchess’ and the Bronzino portrait, Lucrezia’s short, rather obscure and brief …
What have we got? Boom. Bang. Biff. Boredom, you’re going down!
HEAT 2 with its strident staccato and cinematic eye is some kind of crime fiction masterpiece.
Sired by cinema, delivered by literature, this book cries instant classic from its …
“If Jean Claude Van Damme was a key plank in the lucrative bridge between East and West, then another man, a bearer of similar martial artist as leading man legacy, was building a different bridge… that man was Brandon …
What a life!
Welcome to the extraordinary life of Kiki Man Ray/Kiki de Montparnasse, artist’s model, muse, cabaret star, painter, film star, author…While a major luminary of the Paris art world, especially of the 1920’s, her life has until …
The Cutting is a wonderful, occasionally confusing and often sardonic novel set in Sydney, West Australia and Paris. Perhaps the title means ‘cutting’, as in sarcastic or cynical. Then we discover is refers to the cliff cutting near Bronte Beach, …