Firstly apologies. The last newsletter was back in March, and since then things have been ... well chaotic. So there's some news to be caught up with.
Firstly some releases you might want to keep an eye out for (click on the cover images for the book details):
RELEASE DATE: 29/5/2025: Aside from this being a really interesting cover design, a locked room mystery on a cruise ship set in 1925.
RELEASE DATE: 1/6/2025: Melaleuca by Angie Faye Martin. I'm hearing all sorts of good things about it. It's on the stack for reading and has been shunted a long way up the list.
RELEASE DATE: 25/6/2025: Mark Brandi's next novel, set this time in Melbourne, is one I'm reading at the moment and it's as good as you'd expect from this author.
RELEASE DATE: 29/7/2026: High Rise is the next thriller by Gabriel Bergmoser. I haven't got this one yet so can't make any comment except it's a thriller, it's by Gabriel Bergmoser so I'm expecting a wild ride.
RELEASE DATE: 29/7/2026: The quote at the start of the blurb of this had me laughing a lot - sounds exactly like something you'd hear around here. (Don't get me started on the latest rally I attended - there are people in this world that have lost their sodding minds...)
RELEASE DATE: 26/8/2025: From NZ this time, Zoe Rankin's debut comes with some very big wraps.
RELEASE DATE: 26/8/2025: The latest from Michael Brissenden feels a bit too prescient given the drought at the moment!
RELEASE DATE: 2/9/2025: Debut which sounds very intriguing.
RELEASE DATE: 30/9/2025: Everyone in This Bank is a Thief is the lastest Ernest Cunningham novel and the blurb is very enticing.
I managed to keep a tiny bit of distance between myself and the library recently, only a tiny bit mind you so there's 6 or so books on the stacks here from them, with a couple of ones I've been really looking forward to reading (The Deadly Dispute and The Thrill of It in particular). But Eden's up now, then there's The Sunbaker, Broke Road and Carved in Blood). And the Tour de France is about to start so on the one hand, no sleep, on the other, lots of time for reading whilst watching the race out of the corner of my eye.
On the review side of things, been a little quiet sorry, but have a look at Kataraina if you're looking for something that's utterly glorious and confronting, and A Shipwreck in Fiji for something thought-provoking but slightly less in your face.
I've probably forgotten something, or missed something that's due for release, so feel free to nudge me if there is anything. Otherwise, hopefully things are back on track a little, it's rained a tiny bit so there's less dust in the air and a titchy bit of restrained hope, fully realising that the 50 or so mls that did fall will do nothing in the long run, but it did feel nice to know that it hasn't forgotten the concept completely. Made the ducks happy anyway even if it did surprise a lot of chooks that have never seen the like.
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