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1 May, 2008 Told in alternating chapters by mother Jackie and eldest daughter Claire, The Nearly Happy Family is a confident, though perhaps overly long, debut from Catherine McKinnon. 
1 May, 2008 Sophie Townsend’s debut novel is both tender and readable. Best friends Ruth and Mim have been each others’ rock through countless experiences, including the death of Ruth’s mother when they were young. 
1 May, 2008 Delia Bennet offers domestic advice for a living, is the author of the popular ‘Household Guide’ series, and she is dying of cancer. Using her experience of dying as fodder, Delia embarks upon writing her final book 
1 May, 2008 Gilling’s previous novels have been historicals, set in an early Australia tinged with fantasy, black comedy and a touch of the gothic. His latest is quite a departure, with its contemporary Sydney setting and many of the genre hallmarks of the crime thriller. 
1 May, 2008 The release of the Dreaming Down-Under collection in 1998 marked a significant time for Australian speculative fiction. For those of us who were lucky or clever enough to get a copy it was a wild and brilliant showcase of stories that pushed the boundaries of science fiction, fantasy and horror 
1 May, 2008 A great big hulk of a book that, given its definite pageturner status, nonetheless goes by very quickly. I have to admit that I would probably never think to pick up this book based on the market its cover suggests 
1 May, 2008 This is the second crime novel to feature detective Ella Marconi, following Frantic. Once again the author introduces the lives of paramedics and this I found fascinating, knowing little about the experiences of an ambulance officer. 
1 May, 2008 Anna Davidoff, aka Bird, is a Russian immigrant, ’50s movie star and Buddhist nun. Ana-Sofia is her daughter, a lonely woman who cannot move forward with life until she comes to terms with her mother’s abandonment. 
23 March, 2008 There are three perilous things a fantasy writer may attempt that often end in disaster. The first is to extend a popular franchise past its original conclusion. The second is to resurrect a fan favourite character who has been convincingly killed. 
22 March, 2008 Don’t be misled by the title, this book is by no means a romantic love story. Rather, it is a tale of loneliness and the harsh realities of mid-’80s life on a cattle station in a remote part of Western Australia. 
21 March, 2008 A woman jumps to her death from a bridge, an obvious suicide. The clinical psychologist called in to talk her down thinks she was coerced. The police ignore his theory, forcing him to chase it up himself. 
20 March, 2008 This crisply written mystery is told in several sections, from three alternating points of view. Constance Langton, a young woman living in London in 1889, opens the narrative with a firstperson description of how she came to be involved in the world of ‘spiritualists’ and séances 
19 March, 2008 In the goldmining town of Wombat Hills in the late 1800s, Jemma Musk is working at establishing herself as an artist. Upon witnessing a young girl’s brush with death, instead of saving her, Jemma sketches her, and is marked for gossip and scandal by the town. 
18 March, 2008 While there are a few high-flyers wheeling and dealing in first editions and ‘the good stuff’, for the most part the second-hand book trade has traditionally been thought of as a world of musty, dusty stock and bored, grumpy people in cardigans. 
17 March, 2008 Blood Sunset is the second novel from Melbourne author and criminologist Jarad Henry, and reintroduces Detective Rubens McCauley, the physically and emotionally scarred anti-hero from his first offering, Head Shot. 
16 March, 2008 The third in a series of accomplished legal thrillers, Alibi brings us the latest adventures of ‘Boston’s most sought after defence attorney’ David Cavanaugh, last seen solving the murder of the US Vice President in Undertow. 
15 March, 2008 The Accidental Sorcerer is the first book in Mills’ fantasy series ‘Rogue Agent’. Twenty-three-year-old Gerald Dunwoody is a Grade Three Wizard—the bottom of the pecking order, magically speaking. 
15 March, 2008 It’s hard to think of an Australian writer, other than Peter Carey, who has pushed the boundaries of his fiction more emphatically than Tim Winton. It’s now more than 25 years since An Open Swimmer on the Vogel award, and a wonderful outpouring of novels, short stories, and children’s books followed.
Living in Maniototo by Janet Frame
3 March, 2008 Nothing in this story is what is seems. Mavis Furness, Mavis Barwell, Mavis Halleton, a woman who has buried two husbands (which, she believes, entitles her to special attention in neighbourly conversations at the bus-stop) is also Alice Thumb or Aurelia Lokinia, or Maui's sister...or, even, Violet Pansy Proudlock, ventriloquist. 
23 February, 2008 The Swim Club will no doubt be promoted as the ‘Australian’ version of The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood but while it shares some similarities it lacks the depth, sophisticated links to broader cultural and historical forces, and the richness of characterisation of the latter. 
23 February, 2008 In the suburbs, a once-successful career woman is unhappy in her full-time role as wife and mother. With her control slipping away and motherhood consuming her she becomes a danger to those close to her. 
23 February, 2008 This is Helen Garner’s first novel in 15 years, though it could as easily sit with her formidable body of essays and nonfiction such as Joe Cinque’s Consolation and The First Stone 
23 February, 2008 In Manila, Noland, a young mute, makes lanterns and sells them at a busy intersection. He makes the shimmering items himself while dreaming of stars and angels. 
23 February, 2008 This 31st instalment of Corris’ ‘Cliff Hardy’ series begins with a dispirited Hardy packing up his office after losing his private investigator’s license in the fallout from a nasty case. 
23 February, 2008 Murder on the Apricot Coast is the sequel to Halligan’s The Apricot Colonel, and shows us Cassandra and the Colonel at the beginning of their married life. A mystery is introduced when a friend’s daughter is found dead. |
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