Going Zero by Anthony McCarten Macmillan It is a competition to test the latest developments in spyware pioneered by FUSION, the successful tech company run by Cy Baxter and his partner Erica Coogan, and librarian Kaitlyn Day finds out that she was going to be one of the participants. The Going Zero Test, run in […]
Into the Night by Fleur Mc Donald Allen & Unwin Thirty-one year old Leo Perry manages the family farm east of Perth, although his father has a very tight hold on the purse strings. He is married to Jill and they have two young children. While Jill manages to get out and about in the […]
Cold People by Tom Rob Smith Simon & Schuster Gay writer Tom Rob Smith is fascinated by people who have had to migrate from their countries of origin, and his speculative fiction begins with an alien armada hovering over the earth and giving humanity 30 days to vacate to the most inhospitable place on the […]
You Made Me This Way by Shannon Molloy HarperCollins Warning: This review contains mentions of sexual assault. Award-winning journalist and author Shannon Molloy is best known for his debut book Fourteen, a memoir about growing up gay in regional Queensland. The critically acclaimed best seller has now been turned into a sell-out stage production and […]
A Country of Eternal Light by Paul Dalgarno Fourth Estate Margaret Bryce is the deceased mother of twin girls and, since dying in 2014, seems to be suspended in a country of eternal light. Originally referring to the North Pole in the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, a country of eternal light was a place […]
The King by Christopher Andersen Gallery Books From the moment he first drew breath his fate had been pre-ordained, but it would be another 74 years before he would become King Charles III. For 42 years Christopher Andersen has written about the scandal-plagued royal family and now he writes about the life of the longest […]
The Artist’s Secret by Alexandra Joel HarperCollins Having penned many ‘sweeping sagas’, Alexandra Joel jets readers to the world of museums, art galleries, high level behind the scenes negotiations and auctions where celebrated artworks are bought for stratospheric prices. At the centre of this whirlwind is talented art historian Wren Summers who was the assistant […]
Terms of Inheritance by Michelle Upton Harper Collins Business tycoon Jacki Turner summoned her four daughters to her Gold Coast mansion, known as ‘the castle’. The emergency family meeting was because Jacki had found out she was dying, which was difficult to believe as the only doctors Jacki ever saw were plastic surgeons. It had […]
Dawnlands by Philippa Gregory Simon & Schuster In 1685, London is still rebuilding after the Great fire of 1666. Livia Avery is summoned to be Lady in Waiting to her good friend Mary of Modena, whose husband is to be crowned King James II of England. The new king is Roman Catholic who prays in […]
Desert Star by Michael Connelly Allen & Unwin Former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Michael Connelly has sold more that eighty million copies worldwide of the thirty-seven novels he has written. He has also written and produced several successful television series based on Detective Harry Bosch. In Desert Star, the now retired LAPD […]
