Konkretion
In 1969, German journalist Ulrike Meinhof followed Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin into the violent underground of the German left.
Siege
It’s the near future and in a paranoid and unstable Britain, disadvantaged kids have been consigned to high security schools.
Standing in Another Man’s Grave
Rebus is back! The (fictional) villains of Edinburgh had thought it safe to slither from their lairs but John Rebus is back from retirement in a ‘cold case’ unit. Not…
Elapid Tourism
In this extract from his recently published Belomor, Adelaide Writers’ Week-bound Nicolas Rothwell describes his encounters with the unusual community of snake enthusiasts, from Sydney and Adelaide to the Australian…
Gideon Haigh
A quiet sense of continuity allows one of Australia’s most prolific and versatile authors to flourish. Wendy Cavenett profiles the Writers’ Week-bound On Warne author.
Review: Street to Street
A new series of the innovative and quite brilliant ‘Shorts’ from Giramondo opens with this Brian Castro novella in which contemporary writer-academic Brendan Costa takes on the biographic challenge of…
Review: The Fields
Journalist Kevin Maher’s literary debut is a whopper of a coming-of-age tale, set in 1980s Dublin, the author’s hometown.
Review: The Bat
If like most of us you begin reading Jo Nesbo’s Harry Hole stories with The Redbreast (the first to be translated into English from the original Norwegian) you will have…
Review: Diego Marani
Trieste 1943. A man wakes on a German hospital ship without language, without memory. The only apparent clue to his identity is the name sewn inside his navy sailor’s jacket:…
Review: Salvation of a Saint
Keigo Higashino’s first novel, The Devotion of Suspect X was a huge hit in Japan as the country found its own noir thriller superstar.
Review: Mad River and Stolen Prey
In 2012 John Sandford has displayed his alarming fecundity once again. I have published a couple of million words over the years but Sandford makes me feel like a three-toed…
Review: Griffith Review 38
In its fourth annual fiction edition, the Griffith REVIEW has published six high-quality new novellas by Australian authors: Mary-Rose MacColl’s ‘The water of life’ about the death of a Brisbane…
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