Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil engages many of today’s pressing political issues within a well-crafted crime fiction plot. Melina Marchetta’s seventh novel, a realist crime story aimed at adults, is a switch from her previous fantasy and...
I was a precocious reader. As I’ve written elsewhere, the family story is that I learned to read when I was four years old from having the roadside billboards spelled out to me on the long drive from Stawell, in the Wimmera district of Victoria, to...
In Family Skeleton one of Australia’s most prolific and original authors delivers a tale of life-changing family secrets. Margaret O’Day has always lived an ordered and beautiful life. She’s a beloved mother and grandmother and, as an enthusiastic...
In her new novel Philippa Gregory envisages the Tudor era from the perspective of three powerful women. The celebrity status of the Tudors has lasted for over 500 years. Philippa Gregory has written of them in several popular novels, and in Three...
See the Bombers fly up, up … (Essendon Football Club song) It may seem perverse to begin a comment on the past season with a reference to the team that finished on the bottom of the ladder but, when you have supported a team for 69 years as I have...
A killer ride packed with punches, this riveting cross-genre urban-fantasy thriller is set in dystopian Los Angeles. Ava Sykes is a 24-year-old in her final year of studying medical science at UCLA. After graduation she hopes to be accepted for an...
