by NRB | 25 Jul 2017 | Crime Scene |
In 2016 the unpublished manuscript of Wimmera won the UK Crime Writers’ Association debut dagger – now it’s published and we can see why. Set in the late 1980s in Stawell, a town on the edge of the Wimmera farming region in north-western Victoria, Wimmera is timely...
by NRB | 22 Dec 2016 | 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 Megafauna to...
by NRB | 18 Aug 2016 | Crime Scene |
There is a very good reason for all the buzz around about The Dry, another great debut thriller from an Australian writer. In a country with a lot of mythology built around rural connections, it has always come as a surprise how much of Australia’s rural-based...
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