Upcoming Books & Bits

Genre Flash 4  has been released and it's a great big, fascinating list of local books and authors.

To download your own copy (for scribbling on and taking off to the bookshop - or to buy from the sites mentioned in there): 

Regular catalogue of Great Australian authors and books.

Thanks to Lindy Cameron for the great effort that she puts in on this listing - it's fantastic to have such a great resource to make darn sure that we're keeping up.

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All you aspiring female writers out there, don't forget that entries for the 2009 Scarlett Stiletto's presented by the Sisters in Crime finishes on Monday 31st August.

For a wonderful article on the history of the Stiletto Awards read Meg Vann's interview with Carmel Shute here:

http://blog.awmonline.com.au/2009/08/18/the-first-cut/

For entry details to the competition see:  http://home.vicnet.net.au/~sincoz/

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Katherine has just let me know that her third book - Cold Justice, has been pushed back to a new release date of February 2010.  Darn - that makes the wait just that little bit longer for those of us who are really hanging out for the next instalment from this great Australian author.

Stil - February, summer, hot, no excuse not to sit quietly and read a good book!

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The iron heart by Marshall Browne - North Sydney, N.S.W. : William Heinemann, 2009. [Our New Books - LibraryThing]

I'm a tad behind with review books at the moment (well really I'm always a tad behind where I'd like to be), but this book needs an immediate mention.

The Iron Heart is the second Franz Schmidt novel from Marshall Browne and it's one I've been really looking forward to.

From the Blurb:

Franz Schmidt arrives in Berlin in January 1939 to take up the position of Chief Auditor at the Reichsbank, the financial heart of the Third Reich.  He has been positioned there by the enigmatic von Streck, a high-ranking member of the Nazi Party, but one who has a different agenda to that of the Fuehrer.

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