I picked up this book at Continuum in 2019. It was great fun being at a convention for writers or lovers of writing. If you want to attend at some time in the future here’s their website. I did lots of fangirling and squeeing over books. The Saint has been ...

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This is one of those phenomenal books that is actually good. I know I’ve read the translation but a good translation is going to be as good as the original rather than better, and this is very good. Having finally read it, only ten years after the translation was published, ...

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This was first published in 1940 using the pseudonym Raymond Marshall, and published again in 1961 with the name James Hadley Chase to bring it under the name where he did most of his writing. Neither of these were his real name. René Lodge Brabazon Raymond was his real name, but we all know him ...

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Conflict of Lions by Terence Strong A heart-thrilling ride through an uprising in Africa! Actually, maybe not heart-thrilling but that’s what I’m saying. Here’s the paragraph from the back of the book. The pulsating inside account of an SAS peace mission that finds itself pitted against the insidious forces of Colonel ...

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Half Past Dead by Jane Clifton Picked this book purely for the author. Clifton is multi-talented, she acts, she sings and now she writes. I first remember seeing her on Prisoner in the 1970s and was pleasantly surprised some years later to see her sing so when I saw her name ...

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Circus by Alistair MacLean Synopsis The US ‘needs’ to get some information about a deadly weapon from Eastern Europe to stop them potentially destroying the world, they enlist Bruno Wildermann of the Wrinfield Circus to help out. Murder and kidnapping dogs his every footstep from day one but he continues… What ...

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Hooley Dooley! What a Ride!! With no idea what to expect as it’s the first Farrugia book I’ve read and the only recommendation I had from the author was that he’s published by the same author as Matthew Reilly I headed on into this book on the plane to Israel with ...

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This is another Murray Whelan Thriller. This is book five out of six. In this book Murray Whelan is a Minister in the Victorian Government and his lover shows him a significant ultrasound photo, minutes later she’s dead. This is the story of Whelan and his travails a couple of ...

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Sucked In - Shane MaloneyI’ve spoken about The Murray Whelan Thrillers before. They’re a good set of books and they highlight the Melbourne political scene very nicely. In this book Murray is in the Upper House of the Victorian Parliament currently ‘doing the rounds’ having a working lunch with his ...

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Tonight I’m going to break with tradition and give you three-in-one book review. I’m shamelessly pinching some stuff from Shane Maloney’s website as his summary is nice and concise. “There are currently six Murray Whelan novels. Each is a stand-alone story. Sequentially, they follow Murray’s journey through the ranks of ...

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