Reviewed by Norrie Sanders Sophie McNeill has assembled diverse stories from the Middle East, linked by her involvement as an ABC journalist and humanitarian. Refugees, war and authoritarian regimes are prominent. These are delivered to us in a way that brief television reports could not. They follow individuals or families and their ability to survive,
Reviewed by Rod McLary Squidge Dibley is quite a lad – not satisfied with previously destroying the school, the galaxy and history, in this latest Squidge Dibley book, he will destroy everything! He is perhaps a twenty-first century successor to lovable larrikin characters such as Ginger Meggs or Smiley. Squidge is the creation of Australian
In October 2016, The Dry was first reviewed in these pages. Since then, the author Jane Harper has published two further books as equally acclaimed as this one was. QRC now offers a second review by a different reviewer. Reviewed by Gerard Healy This is a great debut crime/ mystery novel from Jane Harper. It
Reviewed by Wendy Lipke As scientists across the globe race against the clock to find a coronavirus vaccine, here’s hoping they also discover a cure for narcissism while they’re at it. This was the first paragraph in an article by Lucy Carne in the Sunday Mail, March 29th, 2020. Narcissism is also an issue highlighted
Reviewed by Patricia Simms-Reeve Emily St John Mandel’s latest novel, “The Glass Hotel”, is staggering in its scope with myriad characters and a cleverly devised plot. The backgrounds are seductive. It begins in a 5-star hotel set in a tiny remote settlement on the west coast of Canada. Then the New York scene, both shadowy
Reviewed by Ian Lipke From Vintage Books, an arm of Penguin Random House Australia, comes the story of a Sudanese man Ayik Chut Deng, a former child soldier, who found his way to Australia and settled in Toowoomba, Queensland. Bearing resemblances to Songs of a War Boy by Deng Thiak Adut (Hachette Australia, 2016), that
Reviewed by Rod McLary Danny is a Tamil from Sri Lanka and now living in Sydney Australia as an ‘illegal’. Initially, he came to Sydney on a student visa but, after failing to be granted refugee status, he abandoned his studies and became an ‘illegal’. Danny is the protagonist of this latest novel by the
Reviewed by Ian Lipke When Fleur McDonald publishes a book, readers can be confident that it will be worth reading. With her third rural crime story on the shelves now, I have no doubt that she has become established as the standard in this form of fiction against which other writers are measured. Red Dirt
Reviewed by Wendy Lipke The Numbers Game is the latest offering of the prolific writer, Danielle Steel who was born in 1947. She now has 179 books to her credit over a five-decade career and has been referred to as the bestselling author alive and the fourth bestselling fiction author of all time. For her