Crime Scene: Jean Bedford on the Nordic Phenomenon
Stieg Larsson has done for the Scandinavian crime novel what Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code did for the conspiracy/adventure …
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Crime Scene: HANS KOPPEL She’s Never Coming Back
The first crime novel from ‘an established Swedish author’ writing under a pseudonym – another name to watch. She’s Never …
FAVEL PARRETT Past the Shallows. Reviewed by Linda Funnell
This debut is a sharp plunge into dark water. Bad things happen in Tasmania: from Marcus Clarke to Richard Flanagan …
The Godfather: Peter Corris on the Kindle
My wife gave me a Kindle for my birthday. I was sceptical but willing. At first I thought to download …
RICHARD HALL The Mr Asia Connection: The True Story of Underbelly’s Terry Clark. Reviewed by LInda Funnell
Why watch Underbelly when this factual account of the 1970s Kiwi-led drug empire is so gripping? Richard Hall’s The Mr …
MANDY SAYER Love in the Years of Lunacy
From wartime Sydney to Papua New Guinea, love, bigotry and bebop infuse Mandy Sayer’s latest novel. It’s hard to conceive …
HUMPHREY McQUEEN Social Sketches of Australia 1888–2001. Reviewed by Linda Funnell
McQueen’s sketches from Australia’s past provoke questions for the present. ‘History-making is not confined to prime ministers and generals, gold …
ROBERT DREWE Our Sunshine. Reviewed by Linda Funnell
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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