📍 Sydney 📚 bookseller 👨‍👧 dad
Sydney, Australia
Joined July 2008
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AU COVER REVEAL… ON MY BIRTHDAY!
It’s your favourite author’s birthday, Fox Fans. I’m 38! If you felt like giving me the best gift a reader can give, you could pre-order my next one, DEVIL’S KITCHEN, out March. Book is gonna your head on fire like a birthday candle. 🔥 🔥 🔥
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Two years in the making, and available at all good book retailers from TODAY
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Only just started this but holy heck it’s good. If you want to be a writer, study the first chapter. It’s a masterclass. If you want to be a better writer, do the same. Onwards…
ALT All the Sinners Bleed by S A Cosby.
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my review of the new Dennis Lehane, novel,
SMALL MERCIES in the SMH
smh.com.au/culture/books/thi…
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I became an "overnight success" in my mid 50s after many years of struggle.
Please do not ever give up your dream.
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'The geography and landscape of Iceland are palpable and vital; authoritatively traversed due to her research. But it is the ease of her storytelling that is truly marvellous.'
@writtenbysime on 'Fed to Red Birds' (Rijn Collins, @SimonSchusterAU)
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.@Lou_Berney is one of the finest writers I have ever read.
His award winning novels NOVEMBER ROAD and THE LONG AND FARAWAY GONE are classics.
DARK RIDE is his first novel in years and it is brilliant.
Amazon: bit.ly/3KgZGKP
B&N: bit.ly/3zb6gft
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"Mottram understands the mechanics of a great mystery; she has the grip of a born storyteller."
Simon McDonald @writtenbysime reviews 'Crows Nest' (Nikki Mottram, @UQPbooks)
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Introducing our #DebutSpotlight feature where we will be spotlighting a fantastic new debut each month, with reviews from #DebutSpotlight critics Rosie Ofori Ward & Simon McDonald, author interviews & exclusive readings on our Instagram! Stay tuned for our Feb feature tomorrow đź‘€
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The incomparable Simon McDonald @writtenbysime is the first cab off the rank, as usual, to review FIRE WITH FIRE. Thank you, Simon! Your support has always meant the world to me, from book one!
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We're thrilled to see four of our books featured this August for @AppleBooks What To Read This Month. Check out the link below for more info.
apple.co/WhatToReadThisMonth
@peterjamesuk @tonyparkauthor @AnnCleeves
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📢Random not-at-all-subtweet book recs 📢
Here's 24 absolutely superb books I've read in the last year that I'd strongly recommend any reader who likes great writing, fascinating characters, vivid settings, and important issues, gives a go.
Try one, try them all. Can't go wrong.
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Looking for some great crime reads this month, or any month? Dig into some of these. Nab a few from your fave bookshop or local library. Can't-go-wrong crime fiction from terrific storytellers. #PrideMonth
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Congratulations to the winners of the 2021 #NedKellyAwards. Four fine examples of excellence in crime writing, fictional and fact. If you love books, you'll want to add some of these (along with the very fine shortlistees) to your TBR pile. @auscrimewriters
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I cannot tell you the lengths I will go to to *never* read Martin Amis’s two forthcoming stories about race in America: “one about lynching, and one about slavery."
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Been thinking about this recently, as Oz goes down a lockdown rollercoaster: has it become time to move away somewhat from the “book factory” approach in OZ publishing, where the month’s new releases inevitably make way 3-4 weeks later to a whole new batch?
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This by @blacklionking73 has the compelling premise of a high-concept thriller, the emotional heft of a Greek tragedy, dialogue at the level of George V Higgins, and brilliantly lyrical, muscular prose. Run, don’t walk: this is the business...
