Author: Matt Hilton Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Published: 2010 Book No: 4 (in the Joe Hunter series) Last month I had an opportunity to do a little jetsetting. Not far mind you, just up to Canberra, to the National Gallery where there was an exhibition of Renaissance paintings (Raphael, Titian, Botticelli et al.). You see, [...]
7Feb12
Cut and Run
5Feb12
The Greenwich Apartments
The Greenwich Apartments ABC Radio Drama is a little something I picked up in a second hand shop. The packaging was cracked and knocked about, but this almost seems appropriate for a Cliff Hardy story, based on the novel by Peter Corris. Firstly, let me explain that this is not an audio book – and [...]
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Posted in Books, Music
Tagged Australia, Cliff Hardy, Crime, Crime Fiction, Peter Corris
Tagged Australia, Cliff Hardy, Crime, Crime Fiction, Peter Corris
Author: Lester Ellis / Robert Drane Publisher: ABC Books Published: 2007 Fighting the Demons is a pretty sad book. Like many Australians, I remember when Lester Ellis became the IBF Lightweight Champion after defeating Korean, Hwan-Kil Yuh in 1985. It was televised in rural Australia, and was a major event. For Ellis, it was a [...]
19Jan12
The Black Prince
Author: Peter Corris Publisher: Bantam Books Published: 1998 Book No: 22 – Cliff Hardy series For those not familiar with the character of Cliff Hardy, private investigator, he is a creation of Peter Corris and first appeared in the novel The Dying Trade in 1980. Since then he has been releasing Cliff Hardy stories regularly [...]
6Jan12
Fight Card: Split Decision
Author: Eric Beetner Published: December 2010 Book No: 3 Recently I have written how much I enjoyed the first two books in the Fight Card series (Felony Fists by Paul Bishop and The Cutman by Mel Odom). However, in my reviews I suggested that a boxing story would always be predictable because they will always [...]
20Dec11
Let Sleeping Girls Lie
Author: James Mayo Publisher: Heinmann Published: 1965 Let Sleeping Girls Lie is the second book in the Charles Hood spy thriller series by James Mayo. Mayo is actually the pen name for Stephen Coulter, who allegedly (according to Donald McCormick in Who’s Who in Spy Fiction) provided much of the background information on the operation [...]
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Tagged Book Review, Charles Hood, James Mayo, Spy Fiction, Stephen Coulter
Tagged Book Review, Charles Hood, James Mayo, Spy Fiction, Stephen Coulter
19Dec11
Smoker
Author: Mel Odom Smoker is a short story, only about forty-five pages, but it represents one of the great things about eBooks. In days of yore, its length it would have always made it cost prohibitive to print. Unless it popped up in an anthology, or in a magazine, this story would have gone unread, [...]
London Irish Punk: Life & Music… Shane MacGowan Author: Joe Merrick Publisher: Omnibus Press Published: 2001 I know this is probably one of the most obvious and stupid things I have written here on P2K, but life is subjective. We all live our lives with a myriad of external forces pulling us in one direction [...]
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Tagged Book Review, Music, Shane MacGowan, The Pogues, World Music
Tagged Book Review, Music, Shane MacGowan, The Pogues, World Music
Author: Lee Goldberg Publisher: Five Star Publishing Published: 2005 2010 has been a good reading year for me. After people have read some of my reviews, and noticed the generally positive slant to them, I get a few comments along the lines of “What, you like every book you read?” Well this is how it [...]
19Aug10
Velocity
Author: Dean Koontz Published: 2005 Velocity is the first Dean Koontz novel that I have read, primarily because he writes in a genre I am not particularly fond of. Actually that’s not really true – I like a good thriller, but I am a pretty squeamish kind of guy, and Koontz (or so the book [...]
