I’ve just finished a book, Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathon Letham, centred around Lionel Essrog the human ‘freakshow.’ It is a classic detective story, set i...

A child, Fiora, (when I say a child, I mean a 16-year-old teen) is dumped on an ageing cobbler’s doorstep. She has little money and is the daughter of the fo...

'Black as pitch them eyes, black as disease and disorder and hate and lies.' Ever since the 'Damn Stupid' life has been tipped up and rattled about, and brou...

Writers Blog 05102016 My worst fears have been realized … My mate Tommmy doesn’t read. Never has. Buys the Sun and looks at the pictures. Doesn’t even read t...

I grew up in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne and didn't meet an indigenous person until my mid twenties. So this book was a shock to me. Of course I've rea...

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Blue chalk circles are being drawn around random objects. A pigeon’s foot, a cigarette lighter etc and the media is rife with theories as to what they mean. ...

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The United States of Japan by Peter Tieryas Imagine the if the USA had lost to Japan, and Europe had lost to Hitler. No, it’s not Philip K Dick’s The Man in ...

Writers Blog 04082016 My worst fears have been realized … I exaggerate of course because this has been a good month. No alcohol. A whole damn month without a...

This novel is good. It has bucket loads of suspense, two good characters as protagonists and two particularly good baddies. Of course you are led by the nose...

Finally a book I couldn’t put down. It has been a long barren spell for me, but Wool is a cracking read. The world has gone to crap. The air is toxic. Wool o...

Don't you live for a page turner? Seriously I do. I don't want every book to slap me when I think about putting it down. I want the world to go take a dump s...

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From page one this book kicks arse and digs up an old fairy tale and plants it in a future far far away. Earth is the grip of a plague, carried to the planet...

Blood Red Road by Moira Young is raw, arid, grit in your eyes compelling and it drags you into a world of hopeless, praying the main characters will be left w...

My worst fears have been confirmed … I’m not going to share my actual weight reading with you. Me and the scales once laughed together at my battle, but the ...

The Miniaturist is set in Amsterdam in the 17th century and concerns a country girl, Nella, and her sham marriage to a rich merchant with a penchant for boys...

The Blinded Man by Arne Dahl Two powerful business men have been murdered and Swedish powers fear a serial killer is on the loose. A task force is put togeth...