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What are your Favourite Local Books

Submitted by Karen on Sat, 12/04/2008 - 3:01pm.
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Just for a bit of fun - please have a go in our poll - add your favourite book if it's not on the list so that other's can vote for it as well

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Where to Get Started with Australian Crime Fiction

Submitted by Karen on Fri, 28/03/2008 - 10:19am.
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We're often asked for recommendations on where to get started with Australian Crime Fiction or if I like X author, what other authors would be worth trying.  Ages ago we put the attached list

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Gilgamesh Connections is holding a second Fable Competition!!

Submitted by Karen on Thu, 04/03/2010 - 3:44pm.
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Currently Reading - Buried for Pleasure, Edmund Crispin

Submitted by Karen on Thu, 04/03/2010 - 8:05am.
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Originally published in 1948 this is part of a beautifully packaged reprint of the entire Gervase Fen series from Vintage Books.  It's also one of my "read whatever I bloody want" tr

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Currently Reading - Rough Justice, Robin Bowles

Submitted by Karen on Wed, 03/03/2010 - 9:50am.
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Sometimes I look at Mt TBR and realise that it's more of a hoarders paradise than anything else.  And every year I promise myself that I will go back and read some of the books that are lurkin

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Currently Reading - The Ignorance of Blood, Robert Wilson

Submitted by Karen on Sat, 27/02/2010 - 5:23pm.
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Okay, I'm lying again.  I'm actually listening to this on my MP3 player.  Which is extremely instructive as it would be fair to say my grasp of Spanish pronunciation isn't good.  My

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Currently Reading - Wyatt, Garry Disher

Submitted by Karen on Fri, 26/02/2010 - 11:00am.
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Well there is absolutely no point in pretending I was a dispassionate observer when WYATT wandered across the threshold earlier this week.  To be honest if the book I was reading hadn't been a

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Currently Reading - Girls Like Funny Boys, Dave Franklin

Submitted by Karen on Wed, 24/02/2010 - 6:28pm.
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I like Dave Franklin's stream of conscious rant novels.  Highly entertaining.

And then he writes GIRLS LIKE FUNNY BOYS and it's not a rant novel. 

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10th Davitt Awards to be presented by Val McDermid

Submitted by Karen on Mon, 22/02/2010 - 9:28am.
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In great news from the Sisters in Crime Convenors - Val McDermid is to present the 10th Davitt Awards - 7pm Saturday August 28, Celtic Club Melbourne. Put it in your diary now.

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