Posted on 17 May 2016 in Crime Scene |
Literary icon Tom Keneally has teamed up with daughter Meg to launch a detective series set in Australia’s brutal past. Readers can feel totally confident in the veracity of the convict-era setting of The Soldier’s Curse. Although Booker laureate...
Posted on 13 May 2016 in The Godfather: Peter Corris |
At a touch over 50 games into the 2016 season (I am writing just before the bounce of the ball to begin round 7), the AFL competition this year bids fair to be more interesting than in recent times. For the last three years it has been pretty much...
Posted on 12 May 2016 in Non-Fiction |
Armenia, Australia & the Great War is a rigorously researched history that focuses on Australians’ experiences of the Armenian genocide. In 1915, just hours before the Anzac soldiers began their attack on Gallipoli, the Ottoman Empire put in...
Posted on 10 May 2016 in Crime Scene |
A Murder Without Motive is an intriguing and compelling true crime with much to say about the Australian suburbs and the national psyche. Martin McKenzie-Murray, the Saturday Paper’s chief correspondent, has written a gripping true crime story...
Posted on 6 May 2016 in The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Language has to change, to absorb new influences, if it is to retain its vigour. Typically, a dominant culture will have a profound effect, impacting on the subordinate society as with Norman French on Anglo-Saxon English, but it’s a two-way...
Posted on 5 May 2016 in Non-Fiction |
From the Outer, a collection of tributes to and critiques of Aussie Rules, canvasses fresh perspectives on the game its fans just call ‘footy’. This book is well named. In AFL parlance the Outer was the uncovered, and usually unfavourably vantaged,...