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Bleeding Heart Square: Andrew Taylor
Bleeding Heart Square in London is a place with a past, and a dark and disturbing sense of history. In 1934, as the Depression and its attendant social unrest begin to grip England, several residents find that their lives begin…
Too Close To Home: Linwood Barclay
Jim Cutter, his wife and son are appalled when their neighbours, the Langleys, are murdered. Their town in upstate New York is a sleepy place, famous only for its annual literary festival, which attracts the brightest stars in the US…
Man In The Dark: Paul Auster
Yay! Another novel from Paul Auster! It’s slim, but don’t let that fool you – this thought-provoking novel about loss and hope is tightly honed.
August Brill is an elderly book critic recovering from a bad car accident. Holed up…
Stray Dog Winter: David Francis
Stray Dog Winte*r is David Francis’s second novel; his first being the equestrian novel *Great Inland Sea. This one is set in parts in Australia and in Moscow. Darcy is a young artist given the opportunity to work in…
Ghostlines: NIck Gadd
Disgraced journalist Philip Trudeau makes ends meet by reporting for a suburban newspaper. While covering the seemingly routine death of a young boy at the Yarraville level crossing, Trudeau is immersed in a world of art fraud and political corruption…
If You Were Mine: Carol LeFevre
Carol Lefevre’s lyrical second novel charts the interwoven lives of three women over three decades, all coming to terms with the pervasive effects of loss and abandonment; themes previously explored in her debut novel, Nights in the Asylum. The…
The Babymoon: Melanie La'Brooy
If there ever was a reason to resume pelvic floor exercises this book is it – La’Brooy’s fourth novel Babymoon is side-splittingly funny. Isabelle, the lovable character from the bestselling Love Struck is back: this time she’s got her man…
Harps and Angels: Randy Newman
Mr Newman sings the way he sings because his tongue is permanently stuck in his cheek, and he sings what he sings because his spleen is worn on his sleeve. Harps and Angels starts with an epiphany, our hero face…
The Land Of Plenty: Australia in the 2000s: Mark Davis
Mark Davis identifies a widespread community concern that mediocrity and self-interest dominate the governments and institutions that control our society. In spite of the apparent prosperity of the last 13 years, there is a sense of disappointment that ‘something fundamental…
Two Men With The Blues: Wynton Marsalis and Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson has dueted with many people, but never before has he been so oddly coupled in recording. Recorded live over two nights at The Lincoln Center in New York last year, this is one of the more difficult to…
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