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Ronni Salt's debut is historical crime fiction at its best, with a strong sense of place and time and wonderful characters at its core. Ronni Salt will be well-known to denizens of what was Twitter, now X, and followers of independent media.
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Dec 19, 2024 · TIM WINTON Juice. Reviewed by Robert Goodman. The opening of Tim Winton’s new novel Juice cannot help but put readers in mind of Cormac McCarthy’s seminal work The Road.A man, possibly an ex-soldier, and a young girl travel in …
CHER The Memoir Part 1. Reviewed by Naomi Manuell
4 days ago · Cher is a genuine superstar who has had an extraordinary career across music, film and television. Now her memoir recounts how she got there. Cher prefaces Part 1 of her long-awaited memoir by recalling her reaction to seeing Elvis Presley performing at 1956 concert when she is just nine years old.
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Ronni Salt's debut is historical crime fiction at its best, with a strong sense of place and time and wonderful characters at its core. Ronni Salt will be well-known to denizens of what was Twitter, now X, and followers of independent media.
MARK SMITH Three Boys Gone. Reviewed by Michael Jongen
6 days ago · Mark Smith’s first novel for adults is both a psychological thriller and an exploration of a shocking moral dilemma. Mark Smith, a Victoria-based educator, is best known as the author of the critically acclaimed YA Winter Trilogy and If Not For Us, a very enjoyable YA climate novel.Like a number of his fellow YA authors, he has now written an adult novel.
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Kylie Needham Girl in a Pink Dress. Reviewed by Annette Hughes. The ‘girl in a pink dress’ is Frances, a young art student who charms her tutor (twice her age) and becomes his muse … the author slowly dissolves the dark layers of varnish obscuring the truth that Frances conceals from herself, and therein lies the pleasure of this novel.
PETER GODWIN Exit Wounds. Reviewed by Ann Skea
5 days ago · Peter Godwin’s memoir charts a life of exile, ranging from the horror of civil war to family eccentricity and life in London and New York. Exit Wounds is a curious title for a memoir, especially when Godwin, early in the book, tells of an illustrated lecture on wounds given by a combat surgeon, Major Jolly, to a group of war-bound BBC correspondents on a ‘hostile environment’ refresher ...
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IAIN RYAN The Dream. Reviewed by Ben Ford Smith
Dec 2, 2024 · Iain Ryan’s latest novel continues his fascination with 1980s Queensland and the tentacles of corruption that captured police and politicians.
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Dec 19, 2022 · Jane Caro The Mother. Reviewed by Jessica Stewart. Though I knew the gist of the issues raised by The Mother before I began – I’d read the devastating stories of victims of domestic violence, watched the news, and thought I understood the issues – this novel still shocks.. Read the rest of this review.