Monday, August 25, 2014

Book Reviews at the Sydney Morning Herald


Author Dan Brown.

Review: Inferno is Brown's Fifty Shades of Iconography

One of the first characters to appear in "Inferno" is a spike-haired, malevolent biker chick dressed in black leather. She looks like trouble in more ways than one.

Sad Liz railroaded into making a grand escape

Letch
REVIEW BY DAPHNE GUINNESS Alan Bennett imagined the Queen as an avid book lover in The Uncommon Reader.

A bit sick, but chick lit and melodrama make it a winner

Author Gillian Flynn
REVIEW BY PETER CRAVEN Every so often a book comes along that has every kind of reader gasping with pleasure at its style and the anticipation of what's coming next.

Inspiration of life on the ocean wave

Hugh Howey
MARC MCEVOY Years at sea gave Hugh Howey all the background he needed to concoct a self-contained subterranean world.

Headed for golden glory

REVIEW BY BETHANY TAYLOR Goldie Roth has felt punished her entire life, until one day changes everything.

Minimalist but magical tale of a life stripped bare

Denis Johnson
REVIEW BY THORNTON MCCAMISH It's the long, inward ordeal of enduring the past that Train Dreams is interested in.

Feisty flapper packs a plot punch but slips on lexicon

Fisher
REVIEWED BY CHRISTINE CREMEN If you've decided to read Unnatural Habits, the latest instalment in the Phryne Fisher historical mystery series, and all you know of these stories is the recent ABC TV show based on them, you're in...

Final footsteps of POWs

Sandakan: The Untold Story of the Sandakan Death Marches Paul Ham(William Heinemann, $49.95)
REVIEW BY ROSS SOUTHERNWOOD Sandakan revisits one of the worst Japanese atrocities committed against Allied POWs during the war.

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