2019 In Review: The Year’s Best Books (Award Winners)
Discover the year’s best books and award winners for 2019, focussing on the major literary and crime writing awards.
Book Reviews
Improbable Libraries by Alex Johnson
Libraries are purposed to house books. Some books are, in reverse, written about libraries. Improbable Libraries by Alex Johnson is one such book.
Doing Time by Jodi Taylor
Doing Time by Jodi Taylor is the 13th instalment in The Chronicles of St Marys series,
Made in Sweden by Elisabeth Asbrink
Made in Sweden by Elisabeth Asbrink is a lovers expose into a Nordic history that lurks beneath the surface.
The Final Days of EMI: Selling The Pig by Eamonn Forde
The Final Days of EMI: Selling the Pig by Eamonn Forde, is not a yarn about sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Instead, it is…
See you at the Toxteth by Peter Corris
See you at the Toxteth by Peter Corris revolves around the Toxteth Hotel in Glebe, which was one of the favourite haunts of Cliff Hardy,…
The Suspect by Michael Robotham
It’s hard to believe that The Suspect by Michael Robotham is his first novel. It’s a gripping psychological thriller, with well defined characters and a…
The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
In The Weekend by Charlotte Wood, Jude, Wendy, Adele and Sylvie have been friends for over forty years, since their shared days in Oxford. Now…
The Girl Who Lived Twice by David Lagercrantz
The Girl Who Lived Twice by David Lagercrantz is, unfortunately, the last in the series of six Swedish crime noir stories featuring one of the…
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
When his mother is sent to gaol, and his stepfather ‘disappears’, Eli and Gus are sent to live with a father they have never…
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An Incomplete Revenge [Maisie Dobbs #5] by Jacqueline Winspear
In An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear, it would be easy to cynically dismiss Maisie Dobbs as a bit of a Pollyanna
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Messenger of Truth [Maisie Dobbs #4] by Jacqueline Winspear
A quote from Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear sums up the main character very well; “My work does not end when a solution to…