Best Reads 2016
Hmmm. It turns out that in 2016 I only read about one book per week. 52 books; 41 of them written by women; 31 of them fiction. Which didn’t seem like enough until I remembered that I (usually) only read in bed, at night, and that sometimes exhaustion wins out over literary merit… Or, as…
An Isolated Incident by Emily Maguire – Book Review
Australian writer Emily Maguire has turned the crime-thriller genre inside out in this compelling and insightful novel. It begins in the usual way: a beautiful, innocent young woman has been brutally raped and murdered in a small town just off the Hume Highway. But rather than the standard police procedural we might expect, Maguire tells…