Jane Harper's "The Survivors" is a splendidly entertaining and addictive whodunit set in the small coastal town of Evelyns Bay in Tasmania. It is a crystallisation of Harper's three preceding novels — "The Dry," (2016) "Force of Nature" (2017) and "The Lost Man" (2019) — and plunders similar themes of childhood friendship, family loyalty, and … Continue reading Review: The Survivors by Jane Harper
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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
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