Posted on 14 Jun 2016 in Crime Scene |
A new femme fatale is born in Maestra, an addictive erotic thriller set against the glamorous backdrop of the European art world. Meet Judith Rashleigh: sexy, educated, poised. By day she is employed as a junior art expert at British Pictures, one...
Posted on 10 Jun 2016 in The Godfather: Peter Corris |
When I was doing English II at Melbourne University in 1960 we had to sit one exam for the poetry component and another on the prose works. Swot that I was, I memorised reams of poetry (we had to identify excerpts), tackled all the novels before...
Posted on 9 Jun 2016 in Fiction |
Ghosts Like Us is a poetic, ambiguous and subversive exploration of the nature of history and remembering. ‘the air of the present moment here’ … This puzzling opening line embodies the essence of a fine literary work: a little obscure for...
Posted on 7 Jun 2016 in Fiction |
Emily Maguire combines a page-turner with a provocative reflection on violence against women. Emily Maguire’s latest novel tells the story of the aftermath of the murder of a young woman, aged-care worker Bella Michaels, in the little town of...
Posted on 3 Jun 2016 in The Godfather: Peter Corris |
It has been said that moving house can be a stressful event, not far behind a marriage breakup or a death in the family. Having moved so many times in three states and the ACT, Jean and I have no fears of such an impact; however, after being in our...
Posted on 2 Jun 2016 in Crime Scene |
The groundbreaking Women Writers and Detectives is a jam-packed rethink of the history of crime/mystery/detective fiction. Melbourne-based Lucy Sussex has won awards for her own crime and sci-fi stories, and for the neo-Victorian ‘puzzle novel’ The...