Hit-and-run books &‘literary’ works: true crime, from Garner to Chopper Read
In her latest book, This House of Grief, Helen Garner examines the case of Robert Farquharson, who on Father’s Day 2005 drove his car into a dam off the Princes Highway near Geelong, drowning his...
View ArticleBook Review: Jacks and Jokers by Matthew Condon
Meticulously researched, broad in its historical scope, Jacks and Jokers (QUP, 2014), the second books in Matthew Condon’s examination of police corruption in Queensland from the late 1950s to the late...
View ArticleMy top fiction and non-fiction reads of 2014
Time for me to present Pulp Curry readers with the list of my best reads for 2014. As is customary, I will start off by admitting, yet again, I feel I have not read nearly as much as I should have. My...
View ArticleMid-summer reading report back: Perfidia, Japanese tattoos, eighties sleaze
Summer in Melbourne is usually the one time of the year I can be guaranteed to get a fair amount of personal reading done. As has become my annual practice, a short report back on the books I have got...
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