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 …
A fast paced, multi layered page turner, VIOLET KELLY AND THE JADE OWL by Fiona Britton is divided into thirty one chapters. It is of medium size and thickness.
It is set in Sydney during the 1930’s, just before the …
This is a fabulous book, intimately, terrifically written. Heather Mitchell comes across as an extremely kind, loving person, dedicated to her art. She is also an ailurophile ( cat lover). It is a meditation on the ups and downs of …
In the shadow of the headquarters of the Macquarie Bank at ‘The Title’, the launch took place of THE MILLIONAIRES’ FACTORY. At about the same time it was announced that the Macquarie Bank had officially become the fifth largest …
Set right now in Sydney with identifiable places this is a gritty, gripping police procedural, impressively written that deals with the disturbing subjects of child abuse and domestic violence as well as misogyny at work. It is adroitly and tensely …
A gripping book, magnificently written, this is the fifth book in the detective Dave Burrows series .It is divided into short gulps of thirty chapters and there is a Prologue and Epilogue.
Readers learn a lot about life in an …
From the author of Josephine’s Garden, this is a rather complicated but stirring tale set in the early 1800’s when Napoleon ruled .This is Stephanie Parkyn’s third historical novel .It is of medium size and thickness and divided into thirty …
This latest book by Barry Maitland is extremely well crafted, written and plotted, with many surprising twists upon the way. The shifting between characters and locations is excellently handled.It is a great page turner you anxiously want to find out …
Christos Tsiolkas, the author of 7 ½ says “Art is not only about rage and justice and politics. It is also about pleasure and joy; it is also about beauty…In a time of rage and confusion, I wanted to …
She was ‘amused, cynical, ironic, loving, gay, ferocious, cold, ardent but never gentle’. She was a whirlwind. She created around her the atmosphere of a Court at which her friends were either in disgrace or favour, a butt or a …
