The Australian Weekend Review is essential reading every Saturday, well worth the price of the rest of the unread newspaper, but rarely do I find so many glowing recommendations as in the April 10 edition:
- Graeme Blundell, whose crime fiction recommendations always chime with me, heads his review of Michael Robotham’s latest, Bleed for Me, thus: ‘Crime rarely gets as rewarding as this.’
- Blundell’s review of Never Look Away, the fourth stand-alone from Canadian Linwood Barclay, claims that ‘Barclay has Harlan Coben’s gift for simple, shattering plot kickers and Lee Child’s uncanny ability to find plot twists where the reader least expects them.’
- The rarely effusive James Bradley reviews Willie Vlautin’s Lean on Pete and concludes it is ‘a gem’.
- I’ve baulked at adding to my list Michael Scammell’s much lauded bio Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic. A praising review tips the scales.