A blast of winter makes perfect reading weather and mystery novels can be the ideal accompaniment for a cozy night in. S N Little’s first novel, THE CURE, recently published, hooks the reader in with some common tropes, starting with …
There’s a powerful lot of bonking in Miranda Nation’s debut novel, NEW SKIN. I couldn’t have liked it more.
Leah and Alex meet in med school in Melbourne. In May of their second year of study, 1997, Alex attends Leah’s …
Sydney Writers’ Festival, one of the world’s leading literary festivals, is well under way.
This year’s Festival is holding over 200 events, 37 international guets and over 250 Australian authors. This year the festival is exploring the theme of IN …
Add the name of Stilwell to Bosch, Haller and Ballard in the Michael Connelly universe of top shelf detective fiction protagonists.
Dave Stilwell is the hero protagonist in Connelly’s latest brilliant crime caper, NIGHTSHADE, a crime caper occurring on Catalina …
In her debut novel, Jacqx Mililli has tackled the world of vaudeville in Australia in the first half of the twentieth century. Based on reminiscences the author heard from a real-life vaudeville performer, whose father led a travelling troupe of …
Devastating.
LANDFALL by James Bradley may well be the most devastating detective fiction you’ll read this year.
Cataclysmic climate change has transformed Sydney into a ravaged landscape shaped by rising sea levels and cyclonic storms, creating a domestic diaspora, …
“Molly turned page forty of the manuscript, put it face down on the stack and switched off her desk lamp….the pages of the novel had got under her skin and left her feeling strangely unsettled.”
This is how …
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This fantasy/romance novel centres around Wren, princess of Thezmarr, an alchemist and poisoner, and Torj, a warrior whose bravery is renowned across the Midrealms. These two have history, having fought together in the magical Shadow War …
Mythic, epic, lyrical and alive, THE BOY FROM THE SEA by Garret Carr is a roiling read, rollicking, redolent and robust.
Found washed ashore in Donegal Bay like some Moses in the bulrushes, a baby, brought in by the tide, …
Her suit – Inclusion to the exclusion of bigotry and prejudice; diversity is not a perversity. It’s her shtick. It’s fully Sikh.
Her suit becomes a suite in Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa’s two toned tome, FULLY SIKH. Two toned …
