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Bronwyn Hall for The Sunday Book Club
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Truly Australian setting for evil

A vet returns to the town where her boyfriend disappeared – and where people think she killed him. It’s “just a story”, but there’s something particularly Australian about it.

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Elevator Pitch by Linwood Barclay

Why serial killers fascinate us

Someone is sabotaging elevators all over New York, with terrifying results. That’s the chilling scenario comes from author Linwood Barclay in his new book.

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Author Tim Slee - author of Taking Tom Murray Home 2019

Aussie author sticking it to the man

A single woman’s protest against greedy banks and supermarkets becomes a national rallying point in Tim Slee’s book Taking Tom Murray Home. The deeper he got into the novel, the more he asked himself, could it really happen?

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Novelist Sarah Barrie for the Sunday Book Club

Tasmania’s hold on our imagination

For storytellers, as for real estate agents, so much rests on the location. Bestselling author Sarah Barrie reveals why Tasmania’s eerie landscape and violent history have become a go-to backdrop for stories on both page and screen.

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WEEKEND BOOKS, TESS WOODS, PERTH-BASED AUTHOR

Our daughters’ worst nightmares made real

In today’s toxic teen culture of online slut-shaming and revenge porn, Tess Woods’ new novel was inspired by her own experience of motherhood — and became an outlet for her worst nightmares about it.

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