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Sunday, May 16th, 2010‘I feel about this manuscript the way I felt about the first draft of Melina Marchetta’s Looking for Alibrandi. Here is a fresh, beautiful, young contemporary voice, a new writer with wonderful potential and a novel you can fall in love with. It is told in two voices — 15-year-old Amelia and 21-year-old Chris and [...]
Kathleen Stewart: Men of Bad Character
Monday, March 15th, 2010From the acclaimed author of The After Life comes a compelling novel about modern love and dangerous liaisons. When Rose’s eighteen year relationship ends in the most shocking and unexpected way, she emerges from years of what she thought was love and realises the extent to which she was being emotionally manipulated and controlled. While [...]
Laura Bloom: In the Mood
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009The beautiful cover for Laura Bloom’s novel, In the Mood, which is to be published by Viking/ Penguin Australia in February, 2010. It’s February 1946, and Robert Booker is just home from the war. Home is a pretty weather-board house in Summer Hill, where his wife, Catherine, is waiting. They haven’t seen each other for [...]
‘A Great Write Hope in the City of Sharks’
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009The Tower by Michael Duffy (Allen & Unwin, $29.99). Reviewed by Winsor DobbinSydney Sun-Herald For a nation that is obsessed by crime stories and whose denizens avidly devour thrillers written by overseas authors – largely British and American – Australia has surprisingly few top-notch writers of the genre. Despite this being his debut novel, Michael [...]
Rachael Treasure: The Cattleman’s Daughter
Sunday, August 30th, 2009Introducing Rachael Treasure’s new book, The Cattleman’s Daughter. Look out for it in Australian bookstores from September 28. From one of Australia’s best-loved authors comes a dramatic novel that captures the essence of our times. Land management, environmental care and consumerism are current issues that have been woven into Treasure’s dramatic and entertaining [...]
Michael Duffy: The Tower
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009Michael Duffy’s first crime novel, The Tower, is to be published by Allen & Unwin in August. Young detective Nicholas Troy is basically a good man, for whom homicide investigation is the highest form of police work. But when a woman falls from the construction site for the world’s tallest skyscraper, the tortured course of [...]
Rave reviews for Marshall Browne’s The Iron Heart
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009Marshall Browne’s novel The Eye of the Abyss, which introduced the German bank auditor Franz Schmidt, received glowing praise in Australia and the USA. Its sequel, The Iron Heart, is just out and is already receiving rave reviews. In the Adelaide Independent Weekly, Stephen Davenport wrote: “… atmospheric, menacing and wonderfully-observed historical thriller set in [...]
Laura Bloom: In the Mood
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009ANZ rights in Laura Bloom’s new novel, In the Mood, have just been sold to Penguin Australia. Executive Editor Rachel Scully describes it as a novel which is ‘compelling and heart-wrenching’ and ‘explores so many dilemmas facing women of today’. Penguin plan to publish in 2010. Home was her, Catherine, in her blue cotton dress, [...]
Michael Duffy: The Tower
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009Michael Duffy’s first crime novel, The Tower, has been sold to Jane Palfreyman at Allen & Unwin, who describes it as ‘a promising and exciting addition to Australian crime writing.’ and plans to publish in August, 2009. For Nicholas Troy, Sydney had always been a city of sharks, a place where predators lurked beneath the [...]
Laura Buzo: Good Oil
Monday, February 9th, 2009Alex Buzo would have been very proud of his talented daughter, Laura, who at the age of 30 has just signed a contract with Allen & Unwin for two young adult novels, Good Oil, and a second, unwritten novel. In her letter of offer, the A&U Children’s Publisher, Erica Wagner, wrote: I feel about this [...]
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