Category: Fiction

Reading Time: 3 minutes Someone is systematically destroying records of human history. The book’s storyline revolves around Maggie Costello, a former White House staffer, and her efforts to stop the person or organisation responsible. But, it is not the fiction that makes this book a particularly rewarding to read. The author facilitates understanding of a coherent and plausible rationale for populist movements’ troubling attack on verifiable truth.

Reading Time: 3 minutes A book that is is a delightfully easy and quick read, yet offers much to savour. It is not science-fiction because its historical what-if fiction is not the book’s primary focus. Instead it facilitates, elaborates and freshens the book’s contemporary themes, through its comparative nature and novelty.

Reading Time: 2 minutes Best known for his award-winning and best-selling book ‘Wimmera’, Mark Brandy has also written numerous short pieces for the press. His just released book, ‘The Rip’, promises to be another resounding success. It is...

Reading Time: 2 minutes Last June, I read and reviewed ‘The President is Missing’, my first James Patterson book, almost entirely because It was co-authored by Bill Clinton. This time I am reviewing Patterson’s most recent novel, ‘The...

Reading Time: 2 minutes A book to savour, and re-read with pleasure. Having just completed reading this book, I find much on which to reflect.   This book tells the story of Count Rostov, a Russian nobleman, sentenced...

Reading Time: 2 minutes Liane is a hugely successful Australian author of popular novels, that are unfairly derided by some as ‘mere chick-lit’. She has sold over 27 million books because she tells stories about issues with which...

Reading Time: 3 minutes Prior to picking up this book I had no idea that Tony Jones, the journalist best known as the host of the often controversial ABC current affairs program QandA, was also a writer of...

Reading Time: 2 minutes   ‘Deceit’ is the first novel of Richard Evans’ proposed Democracy Trilogy. Evans is a former Australian federal politician. He was elected in 1993 and re-elected in 1996 as Liberal Party MHR for the...