by NRB | 20 Dec 2018 | Fiction, Non-fiction |
From fiction to crime to history, essays, memoir and literary letters, the NRB editors choose ten of the reviews we published in 2018 of books we think deserve to go on your TBR pile. Jean’s picks: Ali Smith Winter The first of Ali Smith’s...
by NRB | 20 Nov 2018 | Crime Scene |
This second book in the Ted Conkaffey series clearly demonstrates why Candice Fox has won two Ned Kelly Awards for crime writing. Following on from Crimson Lake, Redemption Point is dark, dry, funny, cleverly plotted and populated by wonderfully real, often...
by NRB | 15 Aug 2017 | Crime Scene |
The Ned Kelly Awards are run by the Australian Crime Writers Association and have been going since 1995. I was lucky enough to be one of three judges of the Best Fiction category of the Ned Kelly Awards for this year. As it’s been impossible to keep up with...
by NRB | 11 Feb 2016 | Crime Scene |
Candice Fox is on the verge of scoring a rare hat-trick at this year’s Ned Kelly awards with the release of the third book in her Frank Bennett and Eden Archer series. In 2014, Candice Fox’s Hades blasted onto the Australian crime-fiction scene and won the Ned Kelly...
by NRB | 18 Feb 2014 | Crime Scene |
There’s a constant sense of danger as concurrent stories of past and present creep towards each other in this intricate and gritty novel. Hades is not the kind of book to snuggle up in bed with at night – it would undoubtedly give you nightmares. This disturbing...