Posted on 22 Dec 2016 in Fiction, Non-Fiction |
This year, we’ve asked some of our regular reviewers to nominate the best book they have read in 2016. The result is a diverse and fascinating round-up. Ashley Kalagian Blunt David Hunt’s Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia, Volume 1: From...
Posted on 20 Dec 2016 in Crime Scene |
Gunshine State is an Aussie pulp thriller chock-full of colourful characters, aliases, street-wise philosophy and unrelenting action that sustains it to the very last. Meet Gary Chance, a 32-year-old ex-army crook with a distinctive missing left...
Posted on 16 Dec 2016 in The Godfather: Peter Corris |
I haven’t read any books this year, but have had the great privilege of listening to 89 audiobooks narrated by superb actors. As in past years, I gave each book a mark out of 10. Listed here are the five that have most impressed me, not in order of...
Posted on 15 Dec 2016 in Crime Scene |
Darkest Place is Australian thriller writer Jaye Ford’s fifth book of stand-alones involving women under threat who are definitely not victims. In 2011 Jaye Ford released Beyond Fear, telling the story of a girls’ weekend away at an isolated...
Posted on 13 Dec 2016 in Non-Fiction |
In True Girt Hunt successfully blends his tongue-in-cheekiness and sometimes dark humour with detailed research. Following on from the death of Governor Macquarie, the cliffhanger ending of his 2013 bestseller Girt, Hunt’s new volume opens with the...
Posted on 12 Dec 2016 in Giveaways & Quizzes |
Our last run-up-to-Christmas giveaway, just in time for you to put these under the tree – or keep them for yourself. To enter the draw to win all four great books email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with CHRISTMAS #5 in the subject line and...