One Synopsis : The last bushrangers in Australian history, James and Patrick Kenniff, were at the height at their horse thieving operation at turn of the 20th century. In One, troops cannot pull the Kenniff Gang out of the ranges and plains…
Cath Ferla’s Ghost Girls won the 2017 Davitt Awards – Best Crime Debut and is one of our dozen Top Aussie Reads of 2016 . The Ghost Girls Book Synopsis Winter in Sydney. The city is brimming with foreign students. Sophie Sandilands takes a job…
Shortlisted for the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction 2016 The Portable Veblen Synopsis : A riotously funny and deeply insightful adventure through capitalism, the medical industry, family, love, war and wedding-planning – from an electrically entertaining new voice. Meet Veblen: a passionate…
Hindsight Synopsis Cass Lehman has a terrifying ‘gift’… She sees what others can’t… The youngest in a family of extraordinary women with supernatural talents, Cass is cursed with the not-so-sexy gift of seeing the past… but not just any past; she…
Nadia Dalbuono’s The American is an intriguing crime puzzle, international adventure thriller and a moving human drama. The American Synopsis: The second Leone Scamarcio thriller. As autumn sets in, the queues outside the soup kitchens of Rome are lengthening, and the…
THE THRILLING ADVENTURES OF LOVELACE AND BABBAGE . . . in which Sydney Padua transforms one of the most compelling scientific collaborations into a hilarious series of adventures. The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage Synopsis: The (Mostly) True Story of…
The Art of Fielding Synopsis : At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people…
LJM Owen’s Olmec Obituary is the first novel in the fascinating series: Dr Pimms, Intermillennial Sleuth. Really cold cases. Read on for our review. Olmec Obituary Synopsis Yearning for her former life as an archaeologist, Australian librarian Dr. Elizabeth Pimms is struggling with a…
Sigge Eklund’s Into the Labyrinth translated from the original Swedish by Katarina Tucker. Into the Labyrinth Synopsis An eleven-year-old girl, Magda, has disappeared. Her mother Åsa works every clue, obsessively trying to solve the mystery. Is she concerned, or coldly delusional?…
In Good Money, J M Green introduces fabulous leading lady Stella Hardy – a wisecracking social worker with a thirst for social justice, good laksa, and alcohol. Good Money Book Synopsis: Stella’s phone rings. A young African boy, the son…
Beauty is a Wound is the first of Indonesian author Eka Kurniawan’s novels to be translated into English. Beauty is a Wound Synopsis: Compulsively readable, Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humour, and romance in an astonishing epic novel,…
Supersymmetry, the sequel to David Walton’s Superposition. Supersymmetry Synopsis : Ryan Oronzi is a paranoid, neurotic, and brilliant physicist who has developed a quantum military technology that could make soldiers nearly invincible in the field. The technology, however, gives power to the quantum creature…
Martin Holmen’s Clinch… gritty, stylish Scandinavian noir from one of Sweden’s hottest emerging authors. Clinch Synopsis : Stockholm, the 1930s. Former boxer Harry Kvist makes a living chasing bad debts and looking for runaway girls, and has a penchant for rough sex…
The Blue Fox Synopsis : “When I need something epic and lyrical I call upon Sjón . . . The Blue Fox is a magical novel.” – Björk Set against the stark backdrop of the Icelandic winter, an elusive, enigmatic fox leads…
The Port Fairy Murders Synopsis : The Port Fairy Murders is the sequel to The Holiday Murders, a political and historical crime novel set in 1943, featuring the newly formed homicide department of Victoria Police. The department has been struggling to counter…
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…
