While the 2011 News International phone-hacking scandal might not have been the huge news here that it was in the northern hemisphere, there’s no doubting the fact that what happened has had a global impact. The arrest of a private investigator and a News of the World journalist back in 2006 for what – at […]
■ REVIEW: Hack Attack
Revelations rocked newspaper industry Read Post »
New releases coming in February. FICTION My Own Dear Brother, by Holly Müller: An unforgettable, nightmarish coming-of-age story set in rural Austria towards the end of the Second World War (Bloomsbury Circus, RRP $33). I’ll See You in Paris, by Michelle Gabl: A story that winds together the lives of three women born generations apart, but who
On the bookshelves: February 2016 Read Post »
Siobhan Harvey is an internationally recognised poet who has been critically acclaimed through receiving or being shortlisted for many awards. She won the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award 2013 for her Cloudboy collection. These poems share what life is like with an autistic son. The point of view is Cloudmother’s, and she first compares her son
Best-selling author Peter James is back with the 11th book in his Roy Grace crime series. Nick Walton’s fiance Logan has just driven into the underground car park of the building in Brighton where they live when she calls him on her cellphone. She is very obviously terrified and as Nick struggles to comprehend what
■ REVIEW: You are Dead
Latest Roy Grace book a good read Read Post »
It’s human nature that we have a fascination with the lives of the rich and famous, but sometimes the lives of the incredibly wealthy are also incredibly sad. Reclusive heiress Huguette Clark died in 2011 at the age of 104. On the surface, you could assume she had lived a fabulous life, having been born
■ REVIEW: Empty Mansions
Fairy-tale life that turned sad Read Post »
Who would dare question tennis icon Roger Federer’s assessment of the greatest players of the sport in his time? Federer’s plumping for Laver as “the greatest champion our sport has known” will be widely accepted wherever the game is played. Federer, after all, has been dubbed the greatest player and game’s traditionalist of the modern
■ REVIEW: Rod Laver A Memoir
Aussie tennis ace Laver deemed the best of the best Read Post »
James Patterson is always a good option for holiday reading and the sixth novel in the best-selling Michael Bennett crime thriller series is – as always – easy to read and packed with action. No surprises there I suppose: Patterson might turn out a gazillion books every year but (fortunately) for the most part they
■ REVIEW: Gone
Patterson provides good holiday reading Read Post »
The word “inspirational” is often bandied about when it comes to biographies of the famous and wealthy, but this story of a teacher who simply wanted to carry on doing what he loved best is one of the few times “inspirational” is the appropriate description. David Menasche was a high school English teacher in
■ REVIEW: The Priority List
Inspiration top of ill teacher’s list Read Post »
