We wish to thank the West End Library and staff for their assistance and support in launching the book. The book is now available in Brisbane City Council Libraries. Please note that Michael, we really have to talk is available in hardback at the Avid Reader Bookstore in West End and online in e-book and hardback at Amazon.… Go to Article
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A Natural Wonder in Peril
The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change
by Iain McCalman
Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 336 pp., $27.00
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef stretches for around 1,430 miles along the continent’s northeast coast, encompassing an area roughly half the size of Texas. Those who have dived into its pristine reaches know firsthand that it is one of Earth’s natural wonders—a coral world of exceptional beauty and diversity.… Go to Article
Noir thrills in Brisbane
Bent Banana Books has all its titles at Bewdiful BargainBasement prices this festive season starting with Bernie Dowling’s neo-noir novel Iraqi Icicle at .99c.
Check back regularly at www.bentbananabooks.com.au click on books in our gallery and see what bargains are on offer.
The Iraqi IcicleeBook bargain begins on December 7 at Amazon US.
Man trouble is murder for Annie
Annie: Bernie, what are your thoughts
on my character?
Bernie: Funny you should ask, Annie…
FREDERICK Lee Brooke could be creating a new literary sub-genre – the relationship thriller.
Like all good thrillers, Collateral Damage crackles along at a merry pace while the reader eagerly awaits the denouement of Annie Ogden’s entanglements with three men.
… Go to Article Annie get your man before he gets you
I’m BAAACK.
Haven’t been around my blog for a while but I am back with the news of a thriller
Protagonist Annie Ogden’s ex-boyfriend Michael Garcia reappears and she has to confront a lie dating back to her service in Iraq.
Will she go back to hot, passionate Michael, who has developed a disturbing interest in meth, or stick with her pudgy PI partner and fiancé, Salvatore?
… Go to Article MSM judges Iraqi Icicle
From the Daily Telegraph Sydney
MARGARET Thatcher’s death caused confusion on Twitter where some users were apparently left with the impression that Cher had died.
That’s a bit like confusing my novel Iraqi Icicle with the Life of Pi.
The first newspaper reviews of Iraqi Icicle are in. As they are from the News Limited stable they are pretty much the same.
… Go to Article Book review of Iraqi Icicle
My reaction to a review of my novel (Only joking)
Glenda A. Bixler is the latest reviewer of my novel Iraqi Icicle.
Glenda writes she had never heard of the band The Go-Betweens which is a regular motif in the novel. Ms Bixler went to the trouble to present a Go-Betweens sampler which heads her review.
… Go to Article The whole world loves freedom
Handmade notebooks from Libre Livre
I TRY not to trouble myself unduly with matters of commerce.
For five days next week, I am giving away my enovel Iraqi Icicle. I do this not because I think it makes a lot of commercial sense but because others tell me it does.
… Go to Article When Rusty snapped
Toytown: photograph by Russell Brown
RUSSELL Brown is an Aussie newspaper photographer.
He and I have worked on the same newspapers, the Pine Rivers Press and the Northern Times for more than a decade and we live in neighboring suburbs in the Pine Rivers district of Australia.
Because he is Australian, Russell has been honored with the nickname, Rusty.
… Go to Article Rain of humour among dark clouds
4.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Dark Clouds (Kindle Edition)
This is the second I have read in the series with reluctant spy Rudi Flynn at its centre.
Like Weimar Blues, Dark Clouds easily stands alone as Flynn is once more conscripted into the secret service of Britain, and, for good measure, the United States, this time round.
… Go to Article Please warn Grandma
Guest Book Review
4.0 out of 5 stars
Iraqi Icicle by Bernie Dowling, 22 Dec 2012
Interesting theatrical, musical and political diversions
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I ENJOYED this story and I liked the main character, Steel Hill, who delivers as a first person narrator.
… Go to Article Aussie thriller sings and zings
Brother reviews brother. Oh, Brother!
4.0 out of 5 stars
THIS novel is an epic detective story of more than 400 pages.
Private investigator Steele Hill is a larger than life character who has the happy knack of being there when the action is happening.
Vision gets even better
Laughs amid the turmoil
Book Review by Bernie Dowling
Weimar Vibesis a most humorous novel on a very serious subject.
Anti-hero Rudi Flynn is a former tabloid journalist, reformed cocaine abuser and practising alcoholic.
Under normal circumstances, he would not be first choice as an operative of Her Majesty’s Secret Service but here he is enlisted to thwart a takeover in Britain by the extreme right.
… Go to Article As free as a the vision of a boirdy.
Jane Sharp’s great new psychic thriller eBook goes free tomorrow so we should all support it to encourage the give-away and create a legion of fans.
Here is Jane’s Twitter entry.
| Jane Sauffs | 10:26am Oct 5 |
My 1st book will be available free on Amazon(see link below) this Saturday Oct 6 (US time) 5 short stories featuring Detective Trudy Harper & her experiences with the paranormal, approx.48 pages.
… Go to Article On the road to Damascus Paul’s book pummels your brain
IF The Book of Paulwere a music album, a critic might say it had cross-over appeal.
It has a feel of a genre novel but it is hard to classify because of its elements of sci-fi, dystopia, psychological drama and comedy.
I believe its publicity machine is running with supernatural thriller and that is a good as label as any.
… Go to Article Hey hey Paul-eay, how many kids you kill today?
Welcome to Day 3 of my part in the whirlwind blog tour of The Book of Paul.
On Day 1, author Richard Long was kind enough to eloquently answer my questions on his supernatural thriller.
On Day 2, we ran an excerpt from the novel.
Today we return to Q&A, one of my fave media for discussion and robust debate.
… Go to Article Tales of psychics and psychos
PERCOLATE the coffee and break open a bar of Swiss chocolate: a new author is visiting our home.
Australian Jane Sharp has arrived bearing the gift of her first published work, the eBook
Australian Jane Sharp has arrived bearing the gift of her first published work, the eBook
Vision The Reluctant Psychic
A promise of more to come in the Vision series accompanies these five short stories, introducing psychic detective, Trudy Harper.
… Go to Article The Maltese Falcon: classic book review
The Maltese Falcon: classic book review
Falcon strikes magnificently
At Google Books http://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Maltese_Falcon.html?id=yfJlaMBMFEMC&redir_esc=y
The large print version from GALE CENGAGE Learning which has a better cover than the other version is not listed on the publisher’s current catalogue.
MANY of those familiar with the title The Maltese Falcon may be acquainted with the 1941 film noir rather than Dashiell Hammett’s 1930 novel published by Alfred A.
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