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Monthly Archives: February 2012

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Crime Scene: Jean Bedford on the Nordic Phenomenon

February 28, 2012

Stieg Larsson has done for the Scandinavian crime novel what Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code did for the conspiracy/adventure …

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Crime Scene: HANS KOPPEL She’s Never Coming Back

February 28, 2012

The first crime novel from ‘an established Swedish author’ writing under a pseudonym – another name to watch. She’s Never …

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FAVEL PARRETT Past the Shallows. Reviewed by Linda Funnell

February 28, 2012

This debut is a sharp plunge into dark water.  Bad things happen in Tasmania: from Marcus Clarke to Richard Flanagan …

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The Godfather: Peter Corris on the Kindle

February 26, 2012

My wife gave me a Kindle for my birthday. I was sceptical but willing. At first I thought to download …

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RICHARD HALL The Mr Asia Connection: The True Story of Underbelly’s Terry Clark. Reviewed by LInda Funnell

February 19, 2012

Why watch Underbelly when this factual account of the 1970s Kiwi-led drug empire is so gripping? Richard Hall’s The Mr …

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MANDY SAYER Love in the Years of Lunacy

February 17, 2012

From wartime Sydney to Papua New Guinea, love, bigotry and bebop infuse Mandy Sayer’s latest novel. It’s hard to conceive …

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HUMPHREY McQUEEN Social Sketches of Australia 1888–2001. Reviewed by Linda Funnell

February 17, 2012

McQueen’s sketches from Australia’s past provoke questions for the present. ‘History-making is not confined to prime ministers and generals, gold …

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ROBERT DREWE Our Sunshine. Reviewed by Linda Funnell

February 11, 2012

Robert Drewe’s Ned Kelly gets under the skin. Nine years before Peter Carey published his Booker-winner The True History of …

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