Most years I split my “favourite” stacks into regular fiction and crime fiction, but this time round ― mainly because we just had a baby, and I'm typing this with one hand while my other comforts our daughter ―I decided to just grab the ten books that most entertained, moved me, or provoked the most … Continue reading My Favourite Books of 2021
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The Best Books of 2018
Enjoy my definitive — wholly subjective — list of the 10 books published in 2018 that I enjoyed most. 10. Bad Blood by John Carreyrou John Carreyrou’s riveting account of the Theranos scandal reads like a thriller. Only if this was fiction, you might question the plausibility of such duplicity and malevolence. You'd think: Nah; … Continue reading The Best Books of 2018
Review: Scrublands by Chris Hammer
With Scrublands, Chris Hammer has fashioned a meticulously written and propulsive crime novel, notable for its palpable sense of place, a slate of fully-drawn characters, and a meaningful denouement. The last crime novel that actually earned the Thriller of the Year / Book of the Year banner emblazoned on its advanced reading copy cover was Jane Harper's … Continue reading Review: Scrublands by Chris Hammer
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