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"The arrival of vast, alien, inhuman intelligences reshaped the landscape fo human affairs across the world, and the United Kingdom …
What’s a bit of blackmail between friends?
In a quaint café in the heart of …
A shorter story, but still fun to catch up with the ladies.
Murder’s never been such a drag.
In vibrant south-east London, a group of grannies stand guard. Baz, Peggy, Carole, and …
Elaine Aron follows up her bestsellers on the highly sensitive person with a groundbreaking new …
Homework from the psych.
I met my husband on the same day I committed my very last murder. There's a joke in there somewhere, …
I met my husband on the same day I committed my very last murder. There's …
This is a well-written book, and entirely gripping. By turns funny, tender, and brutal, I literally could not put it down until I was done. The author nails the main and supporting characters (I recognise the people who populate the Dandenong Ranges) without veering into stereotype. I remember hooning around the Dandenongs on the pillion of a guy who grew up in The Basin, which leads a certain cinematic quality to my imagining of one of the book's key sequences. It's deftly done and not at all cringe. I do love the nod to a familiar handyman franchise which is renamed but recognisable.
Although she's definitely a morally questionable person, Olivia is smart, funny, tortured, and I like her. I understand how she feels about her family and her kids. The villains are not cartoonish, and I've hung out near some of them in the dodgier pubs in Melbourne. I'm …
This is a well-written book, and entirely gripping. By turns funny, tender, and brutal, I literally could not put it down until I was done. The author nails the main and supporting characters (I recognise the people who populate the Dandenong Ranges) without veering into stereotype. I remember hooning around the Dandenongs on the pillion of a guy who grew up in The Basin, which leads a certain cinematic quality to my imagining of one of the book's key sequences. It's deftly done and not at all cringe. I do love the nod to a familiar handyman franchise which is renamed but recognisable.
Although she's definitely a morally questionable person, Olivia is smart, funny, tortured, and I like her. I understand how she feels about her family and her kids. The villains are not cartoonish, and I've hung out near some of them in the dodgier pubs in Melbourne. I'm definitely familiar with the moral ambiguity of some of the supporting characters.
I didn't expect to gasp out loud or cry, but I did both. I'm looking forward to seeing what else Mark Mupotsa-Russell writes next.
An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible …
I'm not the most literary person, so I'm sure there's layers to this book that I completely miss, but I enjoyed the writing and the characters.
A Rollicking Comic-Fantasy Whodunnit with a Tudor Twist!
Priests from OverLondon's Church of Vengeful Acquisition are exploding. Is the cause …