John Purcell

April was a busy month for me. I read even more than I usually do but sadly not all of the books warranted a review. I also reread a couple of classics which was...

Writers who can make you experience a place that is foreign to you - so that you know how it feels to live there, what the food tastes like, how the streets smell,...

Ali Smith is a writer who knocks you off-centre. You start to see the world differently. It can be quite discombobulating. After reading Gliff and the more recent...

Holiday reading is the best reading. You have time to read for hours at a stretch, a luxury that you promise yourself you will reproduce on weekends during the year...

In short, Dust is a highly entertaining, informative, fast paced, well-written, genre reviving thriller that kept me reading well into the night. Peter Temple would...

Kill Your Boss may or may not be Jack Heath's satire of/homage to the Australian crime novel, but it is undeniably a great deal of intelligent fun. A solid...

Dalton’s hero, Cork, is a misery guts, his world is falling apart, his wife might or might not be a god, Brisbane itself appears to want to kill him, and his...