Looking for something different to do this Friday night? Why not attend a local author’s book launch. We spoke to Brisbane author Patrick Holland about his latest novel One, ‘a work of the imagination based on real events’… real events…
Today Melanie Casey joins us to discuss her latest release Missing, the third title in her paranormal crime series featuring Cass Lehman and Detective Ed Dyson, and we offer readers the chance to win a copy. BLBR: Thanks so much for taking the…
Last week we reviewed J M Green’s debut crime novel Good Money. Today Jenny joins us to discuss Good Money. BLBR: Congratulations on the release of your debut novel Good Money Jenny, and prior to that being shortlisted for the 2014 Victorian…
Last week we reviewed Emma Viskic’s Resurrection Bay (Book #1, Caleb Zelic Series) – a thriller of substance. Today Emma Viskic joins us to discuss her path to publication and her series protagonist Caleb Zelic. BLBR: Congratulations on the release of your debut novel…
In this Brisbane Writers Festival panel, artists Samhita Arni, Eka Kurniawan, Ivy Alvarez and Patrick Holland shake the boundary fence to explore identity, acceptance and belonging through artistic expression in the new world of globalism and ‘self-culture’, and ask if…
2015 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize – Awards Ceremony Peter Rose, editor of the Australian Book Review, discussed the importance of the Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize being open to international entrants and remarked on the high quality of the…
It’s not often that you walk into a writers festival venue and find the guest author not on the stage but amongst the audience, welcoming and chatting to people as they find their seats. And so we began the session…
Kate Forsyth’s The Beast’s Garden is a retelling of the Grimm’s Beauty and The Beast, set in Nazi Germany. The Beast’s Garden Synopsis ‘Ava fell in love the night the Nazis first showed their true nature to the world .’ It’s…
Last week we reviewed Claire Varley’s The Bit in Between. Today the delightful Claire joins us to chat more about her debut and what she’s working on next. We also have a paperback copy of The Bit in Between to…
Today we welcome Susan Spann, author of the Shinobi Mystery Series to Booklover Book Reviews to celebrate the release of her third title Flask of the Drunken Master. August 1565: When a rival artisan turns up dead outside Ginjiro’s brewery,…
We last caught up with Simone Pond, award-winning author of young adult dystopian fiction, in November 2014. In our interview she shared with us the inspiration behind her New Agenda Series and specifically the third title in that series The Mainframe….
Today we welcome Gary Kemble, author of Skin Deep to Booklover Book Reviews. Skin Deep Synopsis ‘With an intense and immediate sense of place, a cracking pace and a great everyman hero, Skin Deep is by turns thrilling and haunting, and will keep…
Today we welcome Adam Sarafis, author of Something is Rotten to Booklover Book Reviews. The first contemporary thriller from Echo Publishing, Something is Rotten is a page-turning & suspenseful morality tale. When budding writer Brent Taylor dies a horrific death in…
Today we welcome Peter d’Plesse, Aussie author of Fire Eye to Booklover Book Reviews. Fire Eye Synopsis: ADVENTURE TURNED NIGHTMARE. How did Alexander Dulaine’s search for a lost aircraft become a life and death struggle in the unforgiving Australian landscape? Alexander…
Today we welcome Oliver Mol, Aussie author of Lion Attack! to Booklover Book Reviews. “From an inaugural winner of the Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers comes a funny, energetic coming-of-age story that isn’t quite like any other book you’ll…
Today we welcome Timothy S Johnston, author of The Void to Booklover Book Reviews. 2403 AD It would be easier to kill him than to trust him. Transporting a serial killer might seem like a simple job for CCF Homicide Investigator…
