This was a gripping read by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Holocaust, Saul Friedlander
DIARY OF A CRISIS explores the past turbulence and traumatic year of Israeli politics begining in January 2023 as the country was convulsed by protests
Adam Bowman drove through Cessnock on the lookout for a certain pie shop and thinking about Truman Capote. Capote’s idea for In Cold Blood had come from a newspaper story. Bowman’s own idea percolating came from a newspaper report about …
” Fuck, fuck, fuck,” he declared aloud as if the rat-tat-tat of fuck-fuck-fuck covered all and every confusion.
Utterance poetic and profane, the poetic taking precedence as Gail Jones’ new novel, THE NAME OF THE SISTER proceeds in impressive prose …
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 …
