Melaleuca by Angie Faye Martin
Angie Faye Martin is a writer with Kooma, Kamilaroi and European heritage. She has a masters degree in anthropology and has been published in several…
Book Reviews
The day is dark by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir is a prolific Icelandic author of both crime novels and children’s fiction, who began writing in 1989. The Day is Dark is one…
Reykjavík by Ragnar Jonasson & Katrin Jakobsdottir
Reykjavík is an interesting collaboration between noted Icelandic crime writer Ragnar Jónasson and the then Prime Minister of Iceland Katrín Jakobsdóttir, which seems to have…
A Royal Murder by Elliott Roosevelt
This novel written by Elliott Roosevelt (though ghost written by William Harrington), the son of President Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and published in 1994, is…
Outside by Ragnar Jonasson
Ragnar Jonasson is one of the best-known authors contributing to what is a fast developing Icelandic crime noir. He has sold over five million books,…
Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
Gillian McAllister’s ingenious crime thriller, Wrong Place, Wrong Time, has a new angle on time travel mysteries. Her main protagonist is Jen, a successful practising…
The Model Murder (A Tea Ladies Mystery #4) by Amanda Hampson
Never underestimate a tea lady! Someone suggests that there’s nothing to fear from a tea lady. Betty’s reply? ‘Don’t be too sure of that.’ How…
In the Time of Five Pumpkins (No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency #26) by Alexander McCall Smith
I cannot deny, I am a huge fan of this series. At twenty-six installments, McCall Smith still doesn’t fail to deliver yet another heart-warming tale…
A Far-flung Life by M. L. Stedman
The epigraph that Stedman quotes hints at what this book has in store for the reader: ‘Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and righting, there is…
The Secret Society of Librarians by Kate Thompson
Books were the floor under her feet, the roof over her head and the freedom in her heart. I have read a number of Kate…
The Season by Helen Garner
Since the runaway success of her first book, Monkey Grip, published in 1977, Helen Garner has steadily established herself as one of Australia’s most honoured…
Understory : a life with trees by Inga Simpson
Inga Simpson is a successful Australian writer who has published several books in a range of genres and has mentored many aspiring writers in the…
