The Nile Book Reviews

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...

Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero’s descent to the underworld.

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...