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 …
Is it the plot or the characters or the Molotov malapropisms engineered for maximum blast, a quantum of solecism, that make CLOWN TOWN a classic? All three is the uncrypted answer.
CLOWN TOWN is the ninth and latest of Mick …
Readers of the award-winning Sydney author Dr Stephanie Bishop will know that things are rarely what they seem. In this haunting story, we witness a tragedy. The narrator, a novelist known as JB Blackwood, is on a cruise with her …
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A terrific page turner, the latest (possibly last?) instalment in the DCI Alan Banks mystery series by Peter Robinson.
The interweaving, complicated plot deals with corrupt police, many faceted identities, police undercover work and Irish politics among other …
Jerry Saltz is a major American art critic. Since 2006, he has been senior art critic and columnist for New York magazine, and he received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2018. Concentrating on American art. Australia barely gets a …
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 …
It was a tragic accident – wasn’t it?
J.P. Pomare is an award winning writer who has had work published in journals including Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings, Takahe and Mascara Literary Review. He has hosted the On Writing podcast …
This is a terrific book, with a distinctive Australian voice from the opening page. It is at times witty and sarcastic, terrifically written. The characters are delineated superbly. The book features shrewd, ingenious prose and dialogue. It captures life during …
‘Welcome to a story of greed, corruption, violence, exploitation, adultery, and treachery…all those things we hold near and dear to our hearts.’
No , don’t cue the musical Chicago rather this is an absorbing but shocking and bloodthirsty book …
Set in Paris in 2015 and 2016 , this excellent book by Amanda Bestor-Siegal opens grittily like a sudden TV news alert with the mysterious death of a nine year old French boy, Julien. The family’s American au pair Alena …