Night Blue

By

Angela O’Keeffe

Every once in a while, you come across a book that is so remarkable it challenges all your previous concepts. Night Blue is such a book and so wonderfully written...
The Nothing Man

By

Catherine Ryan Howard

A serial rapist and murder is called The Nothing Man not only because he leaves no physical evidence behind but also because nothing distinguishes him or his life; he is...
The Last Reunion

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Kayte Nunn

Kayte Nunn has written an excellent story in The Last Reunion to bring to light an almost unknown group of women. Australian, English, and Indian women served in the Burma...
The Long, Long Afternoon

By

Inga Vesper

Set in an affluent white neighbourhood of the post war America 1950’s during the endless days of a hot California summer, housewife Joyce Haney vanishes. The children are found in...
Something to Hide

By

Fleur McDonald

Following on from Red Dirt Country, Something to Hide finds Dave Burrows at a crisis point in his life, or should one say another crisis point, this time one that...
A Week to Remember

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Esther Campion

A Week to Remember  from Esther Campion is certainly reminiscent of Maeve Binchy’s style of writing. The story is set in Ireland and the landscape, the language and the customs...
Lightseekers

By

Femi Kayode

Generally crime fiction narratives develop around the notion ‘Who’; however this is not the case with ‘Light Seekers’. Being greatly affected by ‘Aluu Four’; the necklace lynching that involved four young men...
Later

By

Stephen King

The cover of Later looks like the front cover of a cheap novel or pot boiler of the 1950’s and ‘60’s, but the storyline is right out there with modern...
A Home Like Ours

By

Fiona Lowe

Set in a small town along the Murray River, A Home Like Ours from Fiona Lowe is captivating from the first page. The drama of homelessness, the fear of bullying,...
Every Second Tuesday

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Elwood Writers

Every second Tuesday for more than thirteen years, a group of four people have meet to write; to create stories and poetry  around life in general, history, emotion. In many...