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Perfection: Julie Metz
Metz and her writer husband, renowned for his extravagant dinner parties and charismatic charm, live with their young daughter in picket-fence splendour an hour outside New York City. She runs a successful design business and enjoys a coterie of friends…
Raising My Voice: Malalai Joya
We often hear about Afghan women. We don’t often hear from them. Here, Malalai Joya, who at 25 years old was the youngest woman ever elected to the Afghan parliament, passionately reveals the complexity of contemporary Afghan politics through her…
Cooking with Baz: Sean Dooley
Sean Dooley’s father Baz is your typical Aussie larrikin who loves his pub, his mates, his meat and, when he finally returns home many hours later to a cold meal, his family. Part autobiography, part memoir, this book is an…
In The Sanctuary of Outcasts: Neil White
In the Sanctuary of Outcasts is a most unusual story. Neil White was a magazine editor who’d been focussed on success and its trappings his whole life. Rather than let his investors know the true financial state of his magazine…
Shelley's Heart: Charles McCarry
First published in 1995, McCarry’s gargantuan political thriller finally gets an Australian release. Franklin Mallory, former conservative US president, has just been defeated at the polls – but has proof of vote-tampering, and believes himself the rightful winner. He’s also…
Fear The Worst; Linwood Barclay
What do you do when you go to pick your teenage daughter up from her summer job only to find that, not only is she missing, but no one there will admit to even seeing her? Then, after you’ve reported…
The Dark Vineyard: Martin Walker
A few months ago, when Walker’s crime debut Bruno, Chief of Police was reviewed, I hoped the formerly sleepy St Denis would become a hotbed of death and intrigue so we could hear more from the charming Bruno. Well, the…
Dark Mirror: Barry Maitland
Despite its contemporary setting, the premise of Maitland’s latest sounds thoroughly Victorian – a beautiful, learned young woman succumbs painfully to arsenic in the London Library, leaving behind several friends, relatives and acquaintances, all with something to possibly gain from…
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets: David Simon
First published in 1991, this true crime classic has just been released in Australia for the first time. It’s significant for a number of reasons – but most of all, because it launched the career of David Simon, creator of…
The Reformed Vampire Support Group: Catherine Jinks
The Reformed Vampire Support Group is about vampires who are living in modern day society, and when Cashmire dies they must find out who killed him before that person or thing kills them all.
This book is aimed for younger…
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