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The End Of The Wasp Season by Denise Mina, Orion, $24.99. Evil Lars Anderson hangs himself from a tree on his criminally acquired country estate and his dark shadow hangs over his family and those unfortunate enough to meet them. Hundreds of miles away in a wealthy suburb of Glasgow, a young woman is viciously […]

Summer And The City: A Carrie Diaries Novel by Candace Bushnell, HarperCollins, $24.99. A 17-year-old Carrie Bradshaw leaves her small hometown to take on Manhattan, where she is determined to make it as a writer before the summer is over. In this sequel to The Carrie Diaries, we finally learn how Carrie meets Samantha and […]

No Regrets Edith Piaf by Carolyn Burke, Bloomsbury, $32.99. “There has never been anyone like her; there never will be … ” wrote long-time platonic friend Jean Cocteau of Edith Piaf, “… her Bonaparte-like forehead, her eyes like those of a blind person trying to see … a voice that rises up from deep within, […]

The Girl In The Polka Dot Dress by Beryl Bainbridge, Hachette, $29.99. This is the novel British author Beryl Bainbridge was writing in the last decade of her life and right up to the moment she died in July last year. At her bedside was Brendan King, who had edited many of her 17 novels […]

When My Husband Does The Dishes by Kerri Sackville, Ebury, $32.95. Billed as what marriage looks like after three children and 150 years of togetherness, this memoir will have you giggling all the way to the laundry basket. Kerri Sackville is a 40-something wife, mother and writer. While she loves her husband The Architect, admiring […]

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, $35. I first read A Suitable Boy when I was 12 years old and it was at this time that I became fascinated with India and its rich culture. Set in post-independence India, it explores the lives of various characters and how they adapt to this […]

Pop Star: Book 3 — Dork Diaries by Rachel Renée Russell, $14.99. Looking for a book for young readers? Fourteen-year-old Nikki Maxwell, self-confessed dork, must navigate the perils of a posh new school and the CPP (cute, cool and popular) group led by cruel queen-bee Mackenzie. Along the way, she finds friends, gains confidence and […]

For your chance to win lunch with the Queen of Crime, Lynda La Plante go to http://www.lunchwithlynda.com.au Q and A with Lynda La Plante She fainted at her first post-mortem, visited a Russian morgue where bodies were strung up naked, and almost tried her hand at prostitution for a night, all in the name of […]

When a Perth family set out on a two-year round-the-world trip on a catamaran, they didn’t count on being shipwrecked on a remote island in the Pacific. Sue Williams recounts their adventures. Lashed by nine-metre waves and brutal winds in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, Jennifer Barrie and her husband, Andrew, fought desperately to […]

Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson, Text Publishing, $32.95. Every morning, Christine wakes in an unfamiliar bedroom next to a man she doesn’t recognise, with no idea how she got there. Alarmed, ashamed — she can see his wife’s clothes — she goes to the mirror and sees a woman 25 years older […]