This week in the Canberra Weekly I recommend five books for Christmas. Included among them are two terrific non-fiction books; Rod Laver and Larry Winter’s The...
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Canberra Weekly, 21 November 2019 This week’s Canberra Weekly column is a single review of Garry Disher’s Peace, which I think is one of the year’s...
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Peace by Garry Disher Garry Disher’s Bitter Wash Road (2013) is one of my all time favourite Australian crime novels. Set in a remote rural town in South...
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Canberra Weekly 24 October 2019 In this week’s Canberra Weekly, I review new crime novels by Michael Connelly and two Australians: Sara Foster and Jane Cockram...
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The Night Fire by Michael Connelly (Allen & Unwin) Bosch and Ballard are back! When Harry Bosch was just starting out as a detective in the LAPD’s murder...
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The Possession by Michael Rutger The Anomaly by Michael Rutger (pseudonym for Michael Marshall Smith) was one of my favourite fun reads of 2018. A wild conspiracy...
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