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BRIAN STODDART Playing the Game: How cricket made Barbados. Reviewed by Bernard Whimpress

BRIAN STODDART Playing the Game: How cricket made Barbados. Reviewed by Bernard Whimpress

by NRB | 4 Nov 2025 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

Brian Stoddart’s multi-faceted account of a small island’s cricket history is a tribute to a time when it was the powerhouse of the game. The peak years of West Indies cricket, both in the mid-1960s and in a period of unbroken dominance from 1976 to 1995, saw plenty...
BRIAN STODDART A Greater God. Reviewed by Bernard Whimpress

BRIAN STODDART A Greater God. Reviewed by Bernard Whimpress

by NRB | 28 Feb 2019 | Crime Scene | 0 comments

Superintendent Chris Le Fanu is back in his familiar territory of 1920s Madras. In this fourth instalment of the police detective series that began in 2015, Brian Stoddart remains on top of his game. In Stoddart’s previous book, A Straits Settlement, Le Fanu had been...
Crime Scene: Round-up of the 2017 Ngaio Marsh Awards longlist. By Karen Chisholm

Crime Scene: Round-up of the 2017 Ngaio Marsh Awards longlist. By Karen Chisholm

by NRB | 20 Jun 2017 | Crime Scene | 0 comments

The longlist of 10 novels in the 2017 Ngaio Marsh Awards has just been announced, clearly demonstrating how strong crime fiction has become in New Zealand. The convenor and driving force behind the Ngaio Marsh Awards is Craig Sisterson, well known for his passionate...
Crime Scene: BRIAN STODDART A Straits Settlement. Reviewed by Bernard Whimpress

Crime Scene: BRIAN STODDART A Straits Settlement. Reviewed by Bernard Whimpress

by NRB | 21 Jul 2016 | Crime Scene | 0 comments

A third Le Fanu crime novel in under two years will keep Brian Stoddart’s growing army of readers happy. When the story opens in the 1920s we find Chris Le Fanu undertaking higher duties as Acting Inspector-General of Police for the Madras Presidency with continuing...
Crime Scene: BRIAN STODDART A Madras Miasma. Reviewed by Bernard Whimpress

Crime Scene: BRIAN STODDART A Madras Miasma. Reviewed by Bernard Whimpress

by NRB | 9 Jul 2015 | Crime Scene | 0 comments

Murder, drugs, sex, politics, history and geography provide the substance of Brian Stoddart’s fast-paced first novel set in India. In 1920 a young woman’s body is found floating in the ‘putrid shallows’ of the Buckingham Canal in Madras: She lay on her back,...
             

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