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 …
Stieg Larsson has done for the Scandinavian crime novel what Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code did for the conspiracy/adventure …
The first crime novel from ‘an established Swedish author’ writing under a pseudonym – another name to watch. She’s Never …
This debut is a sharp plunge into dark water. Bad things happen in Tasmania: from Marcus Clarke to Richard Flanagan …
My wife gave me a Kindle for my birthday. I was sceptical but willing. At first I thought to download …
Why watch Underbelly when this factual account of the 1970s Kiwi-led drug empire is so gripping? Richard Hall’s The Mr …
From wartime Sydney to Papua New Guinea, love, bigotry and bebop infuse Mandy Sayer’s latest novel. It’s hard to conceive …
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’s Ned Kelly gets under the skin. Nine years before Peter Carey published his Booker-winner The True History of …