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The March crime review

These are the crime books which have been read and reviewed by our excellent booksellers this month – all in one place!

What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan

Reviewed by Lian Hingee, digital marketing manager

Australia is blessed with some of the very best crime writers in the world right now, and Dervla McTiernan is without a doubt…

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Australian fiction to pick up this month

Thanks for Having Me by Emma Darragh

Mary Anne is painfully aware that she's not a good wife and not a good mother, and is slowly realising that she no longer wants to play either of those roles. One morning, she walks out of the family home in Wollongong, leaving her husband and teenage daughters behind. Wounded by her mother's…

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A spotlight on translated fiction this month

This month we're reading fiction translated from Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Dutch!

Until August by Gabriel García Márquez (translated from Spanish by Anne McLean)

Sitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach surveys the men of the hotel bar. She is happily married and has no reason to escape the world she has made with her…

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