TRASHY TUESDAY: POWS AND THE WAR AGAINST THE JAPANESE!
World War II left a heavy mark on society, and not surprisingly it featured prominently in popular fiction well into the 1960s and 70s. In Australia a lot of the...
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CANBERRA WEEKLY 3 MARCH 2022: THREE GOOD THRILLERS!
Canberra Weekly 3 March 2022 Last week in the Canberra Weekly (3 March 2022) I reviewed three good, new thrillers! Those Who Perish by Emma Viskic (Echo) All of the...
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THE PERFECT CRIME: Edited by Maxim Jakubowski and Vaseem Khan (Harper Collins)
The Perfect Crime edited by Maxim Jakubowski and Vaseem Khan (Harper Colins, March 2022) It was not that long ago that crime fiction was mainly divided into American...
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TRASHY TUESDAY: BOOK HAUL – CULTURALLY INAPPROPRIATE, PIs AND MORE CARTER BROWN
With lockdown over and COVID restrictions lifted, I have been able to get out and go book hunting. I have actually accumulated quite a few new additions recently from...
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THOSE WHO PERISH By Emma Viskic (Echo)
Those Who Perish by Emma Viskic (Echo, 1 March 2022) Two months into 2022 and Emma Viskic is already staking a strong claim for the best Australian crime novel of the...
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TRASHY TUESDAY: MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY AND POCKET MAN – JUNGLE THEMES
The latest issue of Men’s Adventure Quarterly, Issue No. 4, focuses on Jungle Girls, which was a popular theme of men’s magazines in the 1950s and 60s. Its...
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