Tag Archives: crime fiction
Breakfast Bookchat and Christmas Crack!
It’s Breakfast Bookchat time again! We’ve made our Christmas Crack and selected some outstanding books from a range of genres that we’ll be recommending to our staff as holiday reads. Happy reading over the Christmas break from everyone at the
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Crime Fiction for Grown-Ups
A new generation of Australia crime fiction writers is taking the bestseller lists by storm. Women are emerging as the strongest of the current writers with gritty stories of regional and outback Australia, and many have been optioned for both
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Staff Breakfast Bookchat
It’s Breakfast Bookchat time again and we welcome the opportunity of sharing some favourite reads with our staff. Find out what we’ve been reading across a number of genres, and what we have been watching and listening to as well.
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Holiday Reads for Grown Ups
We’ve got your holiday reading sorted with our list of recommendations. We have so enjoyed sharing great reads with our Breakfast Book Chat groups this term and hope that you might be able to join us for our second term
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YA Book of the Week
One Of Us Is Lying by Karen McManus is an addictive read for YA lovers of the thriller genre. Set in an American school, five students attend detention where one of the students dies a perplexing death and the other
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YA Book of the Week
Our first YA book recommendation for the year is Wreck by Fleur Ferris. It’s a fast paced murder mystery thriller set in Australia. A heart-pumping easy read, this will appeal to our YA readers who love suspense and will send
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If you love crime fiction and page turners, then put these novels on your holiday reading list. Emerging Australian crime fiction writers have produced award winning, high octane, debut novels and their sequels which will keep you on the edge
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Holiday Reading for YA Readers
There’s plenty on the shelves and in ebook and audio book formats to tempt our YA and Senior Fiction readers to borrow for their holiday reads. We’ve chosen some for you that will make you think, let you walk a mile
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Book of the Week
Wimmera by Melbourne writer Mark Brandi was awarded the prestigious 2016 UK Debut Dagger Award for crime writing. Published in Australia in 2017, it tells the story of two childhood friends growing up in Victoria in the 1980s. A chilling
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Book of the Week
It’s finally arrived! We’ve all been waiting for Jane Harper’s Force of Nature which continues the story of the likeable Federal Agent Aaron Falk. You won’t be disappointed. This is crime writing at its best taking the reader to another
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