Longlisted for the ARA Historical Fiction Prize and the UK Walter Scott Historical Novel Prize, The First Friend by journalist, author and SMH columnist Malcolm Knox, is a black comedy starring Stalin’s henchman, Lavrenty Beria and his (fictional) best friend and adopted brother Vasil Murtov. This is the book description: Even the worst person has […]| ANZ LitLovers LitBlog
Andrew Roff’s first novel Here Are My Demands is left-wing political fiction at its most forceful. It’s speculative fiction set in a near-future Australia where there is government rul…| ANZ LitLovers LitBlog
About the Book: Mitchell is a brilliant biologist, committed to the environment and the growing global antinatalist movement. For one month each year he lives with his colleague Frances in a utopia…| Theresa Smith Writes
‘The missing Tuesday jocks bugged me.’ This was the second of two books I received from the new Crime Waves imprint of Clan Destine Press in October, and I devoured it during November. I am a big fan of Ms Ross’s novel ‘Billings Better Bookstore and Brasserie’ and was keen to check out these fifteen … Continue reading Tuesday Jocks and Other Stories by Fin J Ross| Tasmanian Bibliophile @Large
The duality of the Australian coast is at the centre of this novel. A place of beauty, which can also be a place of terror. I’ve been inspired by the coastline (particularly in Tasmania) and have a…| Tasmanian Bibliophile @Large
About the Book: Charlie, a prime-time radio producer in her early thirties, has always had a big group of friends – until she left her husband, and they all sided with him. Now she finds herself fl…| Theresa Smith Writes
As Robert Burns once wrote ‘the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry’… and yes, I’m a day late with my plan to foreshadow #ShortStorySeptember with a post about Chr…| ANZ LitLovers LitBlog
Vera and Thea are mother and daughter. Vera writes for the internet: she constructs identities and scenarios for brands to cater to the ideal consumer. Yet she also consumes the offerings of the on…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: In 2003, seventeen-year-old Australian exchange student Hannah Kent arrives at Keflavík Airport in the middle of the Icelandic winter. That night she sleeps off her jet lag and bewi…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: In the distant highlands, a puma named Dusk is killing shepherds. Down in the lowlands, twins Iris and Floyd are out of work, money and friends. When they hear that a bounty has bee…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: Broome 2023: when Saskia’s free-spirited mother leaves her a caravan in her will, it doesn’t make sense. Saskia is a schoolteacher, tied to plans and schedules, even if they are beg…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: 1918, Belowla. As the Great War grinds to an end, Adelaide Roberts accompanies her father to a rugged island off the south coast of New South Wales. While loss and deprivation …| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: What would you do if you found out you’d been raising another couple’s child – and they’ve been raising yours? Fourteen years ago, Kelsey and Raf Maccioni le…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: When Giselle escapes to the north Yorkshire village of Hollydale, she doesn’t give much thought to what she might find there. She’s more concerned with what she’s leavin…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: When Caitlin inherits a significant sum of money on her fortieth birthday, she decides to break the habits of a lifetime and throw caution to the winds. She’s about to tell he…| Theresa Smith Writes
