Category Archives: Aussie Authors Challenge 2010

Review: Document Z by Andrew Croome

Posted on February 5, 2011 by bernadetteinoz

If you ignore the fact that we (literally) lost one of our serving Prime Ministers in the 1960’s, relative to most countries in the world Australia’s political history is uneventful. We’ve had no civil wars, no major coups, our lone armed … Continue reading →

Posted in 2011 Aussie Author Challenge, Andrew Croome, Aussie Authors Challenge 2010, Australia, book review | 6 Comments

Aussie Authors Aced

Posted on July 16, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

I know the title doesn’t mean much but I had a yen for alliteration. What it means is that I have finished the highest possible level of the Aussie Author Challenge (8 books by Aussie Authors during 2010). And it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Adrian Hyland (Aus), Aussie Authors Challenge 2010, Brian Kavanagh (Aus), Colleen McCullough (Aus), Kathryn Fox (Aus), Leah Giarratano (Aus), list, Malla Nunn (Aus), memes and challenges, Michael Robotham (Aus), P D Martin (Aus) | 4 Comments

Review: Gunshot Road by Adrian Hyland

Posted on July 15, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

I try quite hard to have no expectations of the books I read. Even if I have enjoyed an author’s work before there is no guarantee I will do so the next time and sometimes I disagree with even my … Continue reading →

Posted in Adrian Hyland (Aus), Aussie Authors Challenge 2010, Australia, book review | 25 Comments

Review: Watch the World Burn by Leah Giarratano

Posted on July 1, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

Thanks to the author for my copy of Watch the World Burn, the 7th book for my Aussie Author challenge which is the 4th book in Leah Giarratano’s series of novels featuring Sydney cop Jill Jackson. At a prophetically named … Continue reading →

Posted in Aussie Authors Challenge 2010, Australia, book review, Leah Giarratano (Aus) | 5 Comments

Review: Bleed for Me by Michael Robotham

Posted on June 24, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

For the sixth book in the Aussie Authors challenge for this year I chose the audio book of Michael Robotham’s latest Joe O’Loughlin novel Former policeman Ray Hegarty is dead and his 14-year old daughter Sienna is accused of his … Continue reading →

Posted in Aussie Authors Challenge 2010, book review, England, Michael Robotham (Aus) | 6 Comments

Review: Bloody Ham by Brian Kavanagh

Posted on June 9, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

For my fifth book in the 2010 Aussie authors challenge I went for a cosy mystery set in England but with an Australian protagonist. In her third adventure ex pat Australian Belinda Lawrence and her antique dealer friend Hazel Whitby … Continue reading →

Posted in Aussie Authors Challenge 2010, book review, Brian Kavanagh (Aus), England | 6 Comments

Review: Let the Dead Lie by Malla Nunn

Posted on May 31, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

Malla Nunn’s first novel, A Beautiful Place to Die, was one of my favourite books of last year so I was keen to get my hands on this second, follow-up novel. I’m also counting it towards my Aussie Authors challenge … Continue reading →

Posted in Aussie Authors Challenge 2010, book review, Malla Nunn (Aus), South Africa | 6 Comments

Review: Blood Born by Kathryn Fox

Posted on April 7, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

Teenager Giverny Hart was brutally raped and the trial of her attackers, several brothers from the Harbourn family, was recently declared a mistrial so she must go through the whole, excruciating exercise again. On the morning Giverny is to give … Continue reading →

Posted in Aussie Authors Challenge 2010, Australia, book review, Kathryn Fox (Aus) | 5 Comments

Too Many Murders on Australia Day

Posted on January 26, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

Chances are that the review below is not as objective as it ought to be. I’ve a rather large soft spot for Colleen McCullough and her work. I don’t know why she was the only female to have been included among … Continue reading →

Posted in Aussie Authors Challenge 2010, book review, Colleen McCullough (Aus), USA | 10 Comments

Review: The Killing Hands by P D Martin

Posted on January 15, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

It wasn’t until I toddled home from the bookstore with the newest Sophie Anderson book in my hot little hands this week that I realised I had hadn’t read last year’s release yet. Such are the woes of having a … Continue reading →

Posted in Aussie Authors Challenge 2010, book review, P D Martin (Aus), USA | 4 Comments