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Picked by my "boys" book club cause that's how it is. Loved the references to Melbourne as I was visiting the city when reading the book. I'm not a huge AFL fan but use to be as a child and teen so I could relate to the hype around Jason's (main character) world. It was ...
This book was the choice of our book club friend (Grim Tim). Through him I have been introduced to The Road, Blood Meridian, Wool. You get the picture – dystopian or depressing. Coetzee’s story of Michael K set in South Africa during a civil war reminded me of McCarthy’s work – beautifully written and disturbingly ...
Courtesy Forth Estate Famous Australian writer Gary Crew takes a tongue-in-cheek poke at his profession in his entertaining and ironic novel The Children's Writer. Crew is the award-winning author of a prolific number of children’s books and books for young adults - deeming him more than eligible to give us an insider’s look at the world of writing in all its guts and ...
My first Chandler book and first venture into noir crime fiction. Has to be up there with Spike Milligan for the best one-liners ever. Chandler writes so well you feel wet through from all the rain and your clothes reek from the cigarettes. Follow the adventures of tough guy private investigator Philip Marlowe as he ...
Alan Carter has done it; he has managed to win me over as someone who can count the number of crime novels she has read on one hand. I was intrigued, excited, scared witless and grossed out; but couldn’t put it down. No wonder Prime Cut was the winner of the 16th annual Australian Ned Kelly ...
Courtesy of Fremantle Press Congratulations to Fremantle author Alan Carter who has won the 16th annual Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction with his debut novel Prime Cut. The awards, named for the famous Australian bushranger Ned Kelly, are Australia's leading literary awards for crime writing in two categories - crime fiction and true crime. The ...
One of the joys of being in a book club is that you get to read books that you normally wouldn’t pick up or those that have slipped by you while your life was going on elsewhere. The Other Hand falls into the latter category for me and for such a great topical read about ...
South African born Australian citizen JM Coetzee is a Nobel Laureate and a multi-award winning author who is well loved in Australia. I have read some of his fiction before so was looking forward to Elizabeth Costello, the story of a distinguished Australian writer who travels the world delivering a series of lectures. Unfortunately for the first ...
I am an Australian freelance editor, proofreader and blogger with extensive experience working with books, magazines, newspapers, websites, social media and academic journals.
