Posted on 13 Jun 2023 in Crime Scene, Fiction |
In Tasha Sylva’s debut novel a young woman obsessively investigates her sister’s murder … and her houseguests. ‘33-year-old woman found dead in a London park’ The woman was Tess’s sister, Rosie, and in her grief Tess has become...
Posted on 8 Jun 2023 in Fiction |
Sue Orr’s new novel brings a timely personal dimension to debates around abortion. Sue Orr’s Loop Tracks has been a bestseller in New Zealand since its release in 2021. Published by Victoria University Press (now Te Herenga Waka University Press),...
Posted on 6 Jun 2023 in Fiction, SFF |
Nick Harkaway’s dystopian new novel features a classic noir detective. While it is always true to say genre is fluid, occasionally something magical can happen when crime fiction meets science fiction. This may be because the best crime...
Posted on 1 Jun 2023 in Fiction |
Jen Beagin’s Big Swiss is a social satire with a moral dilemma at its heart. It can also make you laugh out loud. Forty-five-year-old Greta is an audio transcriptionist for a sex therapist called Om (whose real name is Bruce). Om tape-records...
Posted on 30 May 2023 in Non-Fiction |
David Scrimgeour charts local successes and government failures for Aboriginal people in the Western Desert. While there has been a growing awareness over recent decades, it would still be reasonable to suggest that most non-Indigenous Australians...
Posted on 26 May 2023 in Giveaways & Quizzes |
Look, it actually will be winter next week, so don’t miss out on your chance to win a fabulous book pack to curl up with through the chill. To go in the draw to win all four of the titles below, simply email...