Nine Days is an intriguing film about a man who watches a group of candidates for the job of life. Will (Winston Duke) watches his team on televisions from a remote house. When one of these candidates dies unexpectedly, he’s shaken. He continues on his stoic way, but now he has to recruit a new candidate from a handful of people. These new recruits are unborn souls. … [Read more...] about Nine Days – Film Review
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The Girl Remains by Katherine Firkin – Book Review
The Girl Remains by Katherine Firkin is an electrifying police thriller, which is set in the small coastal town of Blairgowrie on the Mornington Peninsula. The discovery of human bones on the isolated Koonya Ocean Beach reawaken a twenty-year-old mystery involving three teenage girls. In September 1998 three fifteen-year-old school friends, Cecilia, Gypsy and … [Read more...] about The Girl Remains by Katherine Firkin – Book Review
The Crying Forest by Venero Armanno – Book Review
The Crying Forest by Venero Armanno, the award-winning Brisbane novelist, is an unusual mix of the supernatural and underworld crime. It is set in Brisbane and the surrounding rural districts. The chief protagonist is Agata Rosso, an elderly European witch, who wishes to restore the youth and vigour of herself and her dying husband. To achieve this successfully she … [Read more...] about The Crying Forest by Venero Armanno – Book Review
The Secret Path by Karen Swan – Book Review
The Secret Path by Karen Swan is her 20th novel. It is set in Costa Rica, a country that attracts the wealthy from abroad with its beautiful beaches, and rainforests teeming with rare wildlife species. All is not as it appears in paradise, however, and tension is building due to conflicting interests. The Tremain family have been involved in the conservation of this … [Read more...] about The Secret Path by Karen Swan – Book Review
Lucky’s by Andrew Pippos – Book Review
Lucky’s by Andrew Pippos is a story about families, scams and impostors. In 1945 ‘Lucky’ Mallios, a Greek-American, is working as a kitchen auxiliary on a U.S. Army base in Sydney. Resembling the band musician, Benny Goodman, Lucky decides to pull off a scam with his mate, Gregor. While not entirely successful, Lucky does meet his future wife, Valia, and returns to Sydney to … [Read more...] about Lucky’s by Andrew Pippos – Book Review