The Devil’s Bargain (Stella Rimington) – book review
Stella Rimington, former head of MI5, is probably now as well known for her series
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The Colony (Audrey Magee) – book review
Irish author Audrey Magee’s first novel The Undertaking was shortlisted for a number of major
Sea of Tranquility (Emily St John Mandel) – book review
Emily St John Mandel came to prominence with her fourth book, the pandemic post-apocalypse Station
The Last Adventure of Constance Verity (A. Lee Martinez) – book review
A. Lee Martinez specialises in a kind of fantasy comedy that riffs on a range
Hovering (Rhett Davis) – book review
Rhett Davis’s debut Hovering won the 2020 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for best unpublished manuscript.
Everyone in My Family has Killed Someone (Benjamin Stevenson) – book review
Australian crime author Benjamin Stevenson delivered a great debut in Greenlight and followed that up
The Leviathan (Rosie Andrews) – book review
Rosie Andrews pulls a slight bait-and-switch in her debut novel The Leviathan. Set in the
The Darkest Sin (DV Bishop) – book review
Cesare Aldo is back in the sequel to DV Bishop’s historical crime debut City of
Loveland (Robert Lukins) – book review
Robert Lukins’ Loveland, follow up to his debut The Everlasting Sunday, is an inter-generational family
When We Fall (Aoife Clifford) – book review
Although there’s plenty of it, there’s not yet a separate term for Australian rural noir