Reviews

  Reviewed by Rod McLary The Devil Aspect can be described as a modern Gothic horror story. It meets all the criteria for such a story – it effectively combines fiction and horror, death and romance, and is even placed within a Gothic castle in rural Czechoslovakia. Although the author is not German, there is

REVIEWED BY DR. KATHLEEN HUXLEY This fascinating book, written by Professor Angela Gallop one of the world’s leading forensic scientists, chronicles personal recollections of her knowledge and work on numerous renowned murder cases. Aa an eminent UK-based specialist, Gallop has “led forensic teams to find vital evidence in many of the UK’s most challenging cases”

Reviewed by Antonella Townsend It all starts with one Blue Whale. And did you know that a baby Blue Whale weighs 2700 kilograms at birth! And, its mother’s heart is a big as a car – the heartbeat can be heard three kilometres away!   And, a Blue Whale’s tongue weighs as much as an elephant!

Reviewed by Antonella Townsend For the busy person there is nothing more appealing than a one-pot meal, it is the holy grail of culinary laziness, and better yet if the result suggests the cook is imbued with gastronomic flair. In Simply Hot Pots Amy Kimoto-Kahn provides all of the above in a 26 x 21

Reviewed by Ian Lipke With memories of the Three Crooked Kings series still fresh in my mind I turned to Matthew Condon’s The Night Dragon. Readers who want to be titillated by stories of criminals doing crooked things, or committing murderous crimes, might get off on these books, but they are not a genre I

Reviewed by Norrie Sanders At the turn of the last century, two extraordinary people from opposite sides of the world fell in love, built a house in the Tasmanian forest and laid the foundation for one of Australia’s greatest national parks. Gustav Weindorfer grew up in the Austrian Alps and migrated to the antipodes in