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Meanwhile, there is a bit of fiction to account for…
Yes, I have read quite a few things this past few weeks. 1. The Hours – Michael Cunningham’s 1998 take on Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway is just a delight. I love the little bit of trivia in the Wikipe… more →
Floating Life
Meanwhile, there is a bit of fiction to account for…
Neil wrote 2 months ago: Yes, I have read quite a few things this past few weeks. 1. The Hours – Michael Cunningham’s 1998 ta … more →
Revisiting “The Maltese Falcon”
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Neil wrote 3 months ago: They really do not make movies like this any more! I watched it again on Saturday night. … more →
Two worth watching on ABC1
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Neil wrote 3 months ago: I have been enjoying Sunday nights on ABC with Stephen Fry in America at 7.30. I have often felt a h … more →
Two works of fiction from my August reading
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Neil wrote 3 months ago: 1. Tom Coffey, Blood Alley (The Toby Press 2008) Blood Alley seeks to recreate post-war New Y … more →
Yacqub Khayre and Holsworthy plot
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Neil wrote 4 months ago: Everyone in Australia will be aware of the plot uncovered recently in which it is alleged a small ba … more →
June review catch-up 2
Neil wrote 5 months ago: Some quickies. 1. Ed Gaffney, Enemy Combatant (2008) A good courtroom drama with a strong pos … more →
Perception versus fact on crime in Australia
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Neil wrote 6 months ago: There is a brief report in today’s Sydney Morning Herald that caught my eye while I had my morning c … more →
Book reviews as promised…
Neil wrote 6 months ago: Fiction Glenda Guest, Siddon Rock, Vintage Australia 2009 Iain McDowall, Cut Her Dead, … more →
Four from Surry Hills Library 4 – nasty doings in Iraq and the USA
Neil wrote 8 months ago: Scott Frost, Point of No Return, Headline 2008. It starts with a chilling phone call to Pasadena hom … more →
Four from Surry Hills Library 3 – strange but good
Neil wrote 8 months ago: Scott Heim, We Disappear, Harper Perennial 2008. The body of a teenage boy is discovered in a … more →
2009 book notes 2
Neil wrote 9 months ago: Four diverse choices from Surry Hills Library. 1. Cormac Millar, An Irish Solution (2004) I read and … more →
Book reviews concluded
Neil wrote 10 months ago: First a “neglected classic” — James Hanley, Boy (1930 – Oneworld Classics edition with e … more →
Quote of the week, and book reviews 1
Neil wrote 10 months ago: The quote of the week comes from the best of this week’s three books, The Brutal Art by Jesse Keller … more →
2009 book notes: 1
Neil wrote 11 months ago: The current Surry Hills Library crop has thrown up two excellent novels (Best Reads of 2009), one ju … more →
Three from Surry Hills Library
Neil wrote 1 year ago: A varied set this in quality as well as genre and subject. One of them is so bad I couldn’t be bothe … more →
Place and voice spot on: Peter Corris, “The Big Score” (2007)
Neil wrote 1 year ago: I do enjoy Peter Corris, even if one suspects it is a well-honed act, perhaps even a touch automatic … more →
But seriously…
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Neil wrote 1 year ago: But seriously… is the WordPress.com blog of Rich Merritt — seen on the right in 1994. It … more →
Let the Right One In, John Ajvide Lindqvist
Neil wrote 1 year ago: Aust Crime Fiction - Let the Right One In, John Ajvide Lindqvist reviews this 2004 (English 20 … more →
More Tartan Noir: Frank Muir "Eye for an Eye" (2007)
Neil wrote 1 year ago: When I spot a bit of Tartan Noir in Surry Hills Library I tend to give it a go. And so I borrowed th … more →
