Whenever you position entertainers performing in neon-lit clubs and pubs, chances are there will be a wannabe gangster or two hanging about. Selling drugs and sex has always been a conduit for making quick do-re-mi, with potential customers invariably …
LUCKY US is the title of Amy Bloom’s new novel and lucky us that we have such a writer in our midst, a writer of such elegant prose, a creator of such memorable characters, an advocate of truth, beauty and …
If ever there was a cure for writer’s block, Mark Forsyth’s THE ELEMENTS OF ELOQUENCE comes as close as a cutthroat razor.
As William Shakespeare, writing as Thomas Edison, opined: 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration, and Forsyth’s tome certainly takes …
In a little over a year from now we will be commemorating one hundred years since the start of the First World War. A century on, we are still uncovering, like the bodies of the fallen in French and …
More fodder for the Kennedy conspiracy canon as we approach the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of JFK in Dallas, November 22, 1963.
Former Australian detective, Colin McLaren, takes up the conspiracy cudgel in the cold case of the century …
The double 0 in the title is a nice touch in the James Bond continuation novel, SOLO by William Boyd (Jonathan Cape).
There are lots of nice touches in SOLO, which celebrates the 6oth anniversary of the publication of Casino …
It’s a mystery to me, the book commences, what’s the plot to be, what’s the vicarious experiences? Digging up the dirt on twenty established Australia crime writers is the brief of IF I TELL YOU….I’LL HAVE TO KILL YOU (Allen …
People don’t get arrested for murder; they get arrested for not planning it properly. The planning of the murder being investigated at the beginning of I AM PILGRIM is perfect. Text book perfect. And the enigmatic character brought in to …
The protagonist of Alissa Nutting’s already notorious novel, TAMPA, is a sexual predator whose libido is a deformed thing to be kept chained up in the attic of the mind…to only be fed in secret after dark.
The lady with …
THE STALKING OF JULIA GILLARD by Kerry-Anne Walsh published by Allen & Unwin just before Ms. Gillard’s fall from office is no less impactful now that we have a change of regime, indeed, its insights are perhaps even more relevant …