There seems to be a bit of a trend for kick-ass Scandinavian thrillers of late. Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy has pushed the Nordic murder-mystery genre into the spotlight and those books have made a whole lot of readers sit up…
Month: July 2011
Goddard back to best
Blood Count, by Robert Goddard (Bantam Press, RRP $40): Author Robert Goddard has been criticised in the past for being a little formulaic with his plot development, but he is back to his best with this latest novel in his…
How to navigate the pantry
The Modern Pantry, by Anna Hansen (Ebury Press, RRP $69.99): Chef Anna Hansen may have been born in Canada, but we’ll do what we poke the borax at the Aussies for doing, and claim her as our own since she…