Book Reviews & Author Interviews

A deadly mystery

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Awakening by S.J Bolton (Bantam Press)

Shocking revelations

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Beyond Belief by Colm O'Gorman (Hodder & Stoughton)

Aussie humour at its best

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Bloke by Bruce Pascoe (Penguin)

Endearing story

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Half Way to Good by Kirsten Murphy (Penguin)

A memoir worth reading

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Always Looking Up by Michael J Fox (Ebury Press)

Love it or Hate it

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Driven to Distraction by Jeremy Clarkson (Penguin)

Killer read

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Hostile Escape by F.J Chase (Mira Books)

Bookshops brace for Brown brigade

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Recurring themes down the ages

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: The Priestess and the Slave by Jenny Blackford (Hadley Rille Books)

Spectacular Waste of Time

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell (Gallimard)

Love and violence in outer space

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds is published by Gollancz

A different perspective

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Map of the Invisible World by Tash Aw is published by Fourth Estate, and imprint of Harper Collins.

Wands at 20 paces

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Witches Incorporated by K E Mills is published by Harper Voyager

Fan fiction tribute

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Drood by Dan Simmons (Quercus)

Gothic halls, vampires and teen love

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Evernight by Claudia Gray is published by Harper Collins

Predictable chic-lit

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Saving Grace by Ciara Geraghty (Hodder & Stoughton)

Emotional extremes

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Yesterday's Weather by Anne Enright (Vintage)

One of history's biggest manhunts retold

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Mission: Black List #1 by Eric Maddox with Davin Seay (Harper)

Triumph over adversity

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: A Letter To Sophie by Carolyn Martin & Ron Delezio

Mysterious love story

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: The Lost Life by Steven Carroll (Fourth Estate)

Surgical indecision laid bare

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Direct Red by Gabriel Weston (Random House)

Re-inventing a classic

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEWS: Ransom by David Malouf (Knopf)

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Ransom by David Malouf (Knopf)

History laid bare

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Body at the Melbourne Club by David Burke (Wakefield Press)

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Body at the Melbourne Club by David Burke (Wakefield Press)

Anatomy of an affair

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: After the Fall by Kylie Ladd (Allen and Unwin)

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: After the Fall by Kylie Ladd (Allen and Unwin)

Triumphant debut

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: The Boat by Nam Le (Penguin)

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: The Boat by Nam Le (Penguin)

Lives ruled by fear

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: The Vagrants by Yiyun Li (Fourth Estate)

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: The Vagrant by Yiyun Li (Fourth Estate)

Live in the moment

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Still Alice by Lisa Genova (Simon and Schuster)

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Still Alice by Lisa Genova (Simon and Schuster)

Sex and other misadventures

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEWS: Up A Tree At Night With A Hedgehog by P Robert Smith (Vintage)

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Up A Tree At Night In The Park With A Hedgehog by P Robert Smith (Vintage)

Engaging thriller

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEWS: Tethered by Amy McKinnon (Hachette Livre)

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Tethered, by Amy MacKinnon (Hachette Livre)

Lucid dreaming for the lonely

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Ambulances and Dreamers by Bel Schenk (Wakefield Press)

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Ambulances and Dreamers by Bel Schenk (Wakefield Press)

Endearing story

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Half Way to Good by Kirsten Murphy (Penguin) MORE

Gripping account of tragedy

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Fatal Storm by Rob Mundle (HarperCollins)

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Fatal Storm by Rob Mundle (HarperCollins)

Slice of Australian banking history

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Building the Village - A History of the Bendido Bank by Alan Mayne (Wakefield Press)

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Building The Village - A History of the Bendigo Bank by Alan Mayne (Wakefield Press)

Re-imagining history

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Mr Darwin's Shooter by Roger McDonald (Vintage)

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Mr Darwin's Shooter by Roger McDonald (Vintage)

Compellingly grotesque

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Monster Love by Carol Topolski (Penguin)

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Monster Love by Carol Topolski (Penguin)

Catalogue of human anguish

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEWS: All In The Mind by Alastair Campbell (Hutchinson)

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: All In The Mind by Alastair Campbell (Hutchinson)

Chilling cat-and-mouse tale

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Dance of Death by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (Orion)

Rewardingly weird

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Wrong Way, Go Back by Alli Kincaid (Bantam)

Strangely fascinating

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: A Tale of Two Women by Christina Slade (Wakefield Press)

Fast-paced thriller

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: The Whole Truth by David Baldacci (Pan Macmillan)

One to lose yourself in

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: The Two Pearls of Wisdom by Alison Goodman (HarperCollins)

Great disappointment

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: A Mercy by Toni Morrisson (Chatto & Windus)

Business insights

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Globality by Hal Sirkin, Jim Hemerling, Arindam Bhattacharya (Headline Books)

Compelling historical saga

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Bones of the Hills, by Conn Iggulden (HarperCollins)

Psychological romantic thriller

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: What To Do When Someone Dies by Nicci French (Penguin)

Gritty insight

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: In The Land of Invisible Women by Qanta A. Ahmed MD (Sourcebooks)

Standard stuff

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Cold Case by Faye Kellerman (HarperCollins)

Cliche-ridden irritation

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: The Reinvention of Ivy Brown, by Roberta Taylor (Penguin)

Great weekend read

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Life Begins by Amanda Brookfield (Penguin)

CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Life Begins by Amanada Brookfield (Penguin)

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