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The Rise of Sir Ian Rankin
Recently knighted for services to literature and charity, Scottish author IAN RANKIN continues to thrill readers worldwide with the cases of iconic detective John Rebus.
CRAIG SISTERSON reports.
The courtroom looks different to John Rebus. Not just because the jury box sits vacant, with those ordinary citizens who’ll decide the defendant’s fate squirrelled away in a nearby cinema, watching proceedings by video link so they can weigh matters while keeping ...
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Features
In September 2022 we were delighted to introduce our Book Post subscribers to a new Australian author who has ...
ISLA FISHER is an Australian actress and author. Her films include Wedding Crashers and The Great Gatsby. She has ...
DOMINIQUE ROQUES is the head of sourcing at Firmenich, a Swiss company that provides the world’s leading perfume ...
Across the world we’re seeing a revival of the romance genre which has been spurred on from the social media app, ...
At the heart of the Milky Way, there is a distortion in the fabric of the Universe. Caused by something 4 million ...
KAREN HERBERT is an Australian writer who has worked in aged care, disability services, higher education, ...
MICHELLE LEE holds the world record for the fastest woman to row one million metres on a Concept 2 rowing machine ...
Do you ever get into a reading slump? When every book you pick up just doesn’t appeal? It’s an upsetting state for ...
Inside Salamati by HAMED ALLAHYARI we discovered the number-one Iranian soup and one of the most important dishes ...
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The newspapers called it the ‘Economic Crisis’. Comparisons to the Depression were rife, until the crisis ...
Turning the first page of a George Saunders' Liberation Day is like opening a door to the cavernous expanse of a ...
Haven is a fascinating story based on documents from 7th century Ireland. This authenticity helped me inhabit the ...
Hernan Diaz is an audacious storyteller whose first novel In the Distance was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize ...
The Settlement is a compelling, but completely brutal tale, about the early colonial settlement of Tasmania and ...
Victoria Hannan was the 2019 winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literacy Award for her debut novel Kokomo. Her ...
The Ghost of Gracie Flynn is written from the perspective of Gracie Flynn, a university student who died 18 years ...
This collection of short stories is not for everyone. And here I mean, reader beware! The stories in Cursed Bunny ...
Kate Atkinson’s novels are always interesting, always different, and this one takes us to fizzing, mad, ...
This US author’s previous readers will be comfortable with her new book, as it features characters enormously ...
This book is a series of interconnected stories with a central pillar. Dorelia is a recently widowed elderly lady. ...
Everyone loves a good love story, and when it is allied with war history as well as Greek myths, then it ticks a ...
At the end of the last century, crop circles grew, mushroom-like, in fields of wheat and barley. Ever more circles ...
Set in middle-class Hobart, The Accident weaves between the perspectives of three women – Grace, Zoe and Imogen – ...
This has all the makings of ‘the great American novel’; it is a love story as well as being a love letter to an ...
Ada Harris is a widow and a London char. She cleans for clientele living in fashionable Belgravia: a European ...
Random Acts of Unkindness is set in a future dystopian Melbourne. Climate change refugees camp in the Treasury ...
This is a contemporary novel about a group of young adults who have just finished school and are taking part in ...
The first in a new Australian cosy mystery series set in Paris, this novel sees journalist Charlotte James ...
The story is told from the perspective of Carla, an ambitious doctor who is on the verge of realising her dream of ...
Thelma and Louise meets Mad Max might be the Hollywood tagline, but there’s a lot more to Emma Styles’s debut than ...
The top brass at London’s Metropolitan Police have learnt that the head of Royalty Protection Command is living ...
Joy is close to fulfilling her dreams of retiring and moving to live with her sister in England. The problem is, ...
Abbie is a young single mother who took her temperamental six -year-old daughter, Sarah, to a street market and ...
Starting a new ‘Vera’ book is like catching up with an old friend who you haven’t seen for a while. This is ...
It’s not immediately apparent that this is a memoir – it could be fiction and rate just as highly. It’s only by ...
Feisty, authentic, fiercely independent and non-binary, Ho lays bare the hospitality world mostly unseen by those ...
Glasgow and the Amazon are worlds apart. Chris Clark was born in the former, but felt at home in the latter. ...
The title is a clever wordplay, with the middle two words revealing the memoirist’s preferred pronunciation of his ...
Harold Holt is rarely remembered these days and, if he is, it is as a result of his disappearance at Cheviot Beach ...
As a celebrated visual artist, Judy Cotton has lived in the USA for decades. Born in Broken Hill in 1941, she ...
In China After Mao, Frank Dikötter does a job on the Chinese Communist party which a Cold War Warrior such as ...
Disarmingly, this erudite but highly readable book about seeds starts with a scenario familiar to many home ...
Salamati is much more than a cookbook. It’s a delicious invitation to savour and learn more about Persian culture ...
Yotam Ottolenghi, Noor Murad and the Test Kitchen team have returned with a second book in their highly popular ...
The Museum of Broken Things follows 18-year-old Reece. She has recently moved from a busy city to the small ...
As long as the lemon trees grow, hope will never die.’ This is a novel about hope, but it is also a novel about ...
In a time where no-one will listen, will you find your voice? Starr Carter is a black 16-year-old. She has a mum, ...
My Mechanical Romance is a delightful and tender story but doesn’t shy away from its main message: that women need ...
Chippy Chasers is a graphic novel so if you’re like me you will finish in a day. It is very funny and my mum ...
This is one of those books that you need only to look at the cover and you are sucked in. The Goddess of Earth is ...
I always look forward to another book from Terry and Andy. As always, with this series, the story is about adding ...
Grub lived in the forest, way beneath the tree canopy, in an old log.
He spent his days eating and eating.
Grub ...
Nganana iriti, tangka wiya nyinangi Uwankara wiya. Nganana tangkiku ninti wiya Long, long ago, we didn’t have ...
Yes, Flipper and Finnegan are two of the Little Penguins who live on Phillip Island, just a little south of ...
Cathy ran barefoot every day
Across the great ancient land
As her people had done
For sixty thousand years ...
Sally Thorne is one of my favourite romance writers. Her female leads are smart, her ability to build the romantic ...
This novel approach to decision-making sets out to disrupt our usual methodology by suggesting that trawling ...
If you have read and loved The Grandest Bookshop in the World, then you will be delighted to know that the new ...
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