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1 June, 2008 Alice Nelson, who was shortlisted for the 2004 Australian/Vogel Award for Swimming Without Water is a literary writer. 
1 June, 2008 The Invisible Road, by acclaimed New Zealand author Elizabeth Knox (The Vintner’s Luck), is apparently aimed at the adult market, however has strong crossover potential to the young adult market. 
1 June, 2008 Katie Horgan is a hard-working Sydney lawyer on the cusp of becoming a partner in her prestigious law firm. 
1 June, 2008 The third thriller by David Rollins featuring his motormouthed sleuth Vin Cooper will definitely appeal to readers of high-tech, military-oriented murder dramas. 
1 June, 2008 This is the second novel by the Queensland author of The Shifting Fog. 
1 June, 2008 Dissection is a skillfully written piece of work that charts the despair of a woman, a doctor, who begins to question her ability to function both professionally and personally. 
1 June, 2008 The cover will tell you that this is the fourth volume of the ‘Dreaming in Amber’ series. 
1 June, 2008 First-time novelists have expectations thrust upon them, or perhaps they thrust them upon themselves. Kate Cole-Adams may not have as many as some with her debut novel Walking to the Moon, as her day job entails journalism and editing at a major newspaper. 
1 May, 2008 Melbourne-born author Lee Tulloch writes for newspapers and magazines such as the Age, Vogue Living and Australian Women’s Weekly. She has written five previous novels, including Wraith and Perfect Pink. 
1 May, 2008 Twelve-year-old Eon, aspiring apprentice to the zodiacal Rat Dragon, is playing a dangerous game: he is actually Eona, 16-years-old and a girl. 
1 May, 2008 Herself a childhood refugee from WWII Poland, Armstrong is on familiar territory following the author’s earlier explorations of personal identity and the Holocaust. Teenage Elzunia Orlowski reaches womanhood through the deprivations imposed upon her by the Nazi occupation of Warsaw. 
1 May, 2008 Told in alternating chapters by mother Jackie and eldest daughter Claire, The Nearly Happy Family is a confident, though perhaps overly long, debut from Catherine McKinnon. 
1 May, 2008 Sophie Townsend’s debut novel is both tender and readable. Best friends Ruth and Mim have been each others’ rock through countless experiences, including the death of Ruth’s mother when they were young. 
1 May, 2008 Delia Bennet offers domestic advice for a living, is the author of the popular ‘Household Guide’ series, and she is dying of cancer. Using her experience of dying as fodder, Delia embarks upon writing her final book 
1 May, 2008 Gilling’s previous novels have been historicals, set in an early Australia tinged with fantasy, black comedy and a touch of the gothic. His latest is quite a departure, with its contemporary Sydney setting and many of the genre hallmarks of the crime thriller. 
1 May, 2008 The release of the Dreaming Down-Under collection in 1998 marked a significant time for Australian speculative fiction. For those of us who were lucky or clever enough to get a copy it was a wild and brilliant showcase of stories that pushed the boundaries of science fiction, fantasy and horror 
1 May, 2008 A great big hulk of a book that, given its definite pageturner status, nonetheless goes by very quickly. I have to admit that I would probably never think to pick up this book based on the market its cover suggests 
1 May, 2008 This is the second crime novel to feature detective Ella Marconi, following Frantic. Once again the author introduces the lives of paramedics and this I found fascinating, knowing little about the experiences of an ambulance officer. 
1 May, 2008 Anna Davidoff, aka Bird, is a Russian immigrant, ’50s movie star and Buddhist nun. Ana-Sofia is her daughter, a lonely woman who cannot move forward with life until she comes to terms with her mother’s abandonment. 
23 March, 2008 There are three perilous things a fantasy writer may attempt that often end in disaster. The first is to extend a popular franchise past its original conclusion. The second is to resurrect a fan favourite character who has been convincingly killed. 
22 March, 2008 Don’t be misled by the title, this book is by no means a romantic love story. Rather, it is a tale of loneliness and the harsh realities of mid-’80s life on a cattle station in a remote part of Western Australia. 
21 March, 2008 A woman jumps to her death from a bridge, an obvious suicide. The clinical psychologist called in to talk her down thinks she was coerced. The police ignore his theory, forcing him to chase it up himself. 
20 March, 2008 This crisply written mystery is told in several sections, from three alternating points of view. Constance Langton, a young woman living in London in 1889, opens the narrative with a firstperson description of how she came to be involved in the world of ‘spiritualists’ and séances 
19 March, 2008 In the goldmining town of Wombat Hills in the late 1800s, Jemma Musk is working at establishing herself as an artist. Upon witnessing a young girl’s brush with death, instead of saving her, Jemma sketches her, and is marked for gossip and scandal by the town. |
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