Cirrus@Austlit

'OLD BOY By Georgia Tree Fremantle Press, Narrative Nonfiction 240pp, $29.99 Old Boy is a small book about the small life of a man who was once a small-time criminal. Its protagonist, Grant Tree, served a couple of short sentences in jail for minor offences. The book is written by his daughter, Georgia Tree, and it’s difficult to imagine anyone else who might believe that her father’s small story would be worthy of a book.' (Introduction)   

'Michael Robotham should give himself a bit more credit, writes Mark Dapin I would like to say that I turned up to interview Sydney thriller writer Michael Robotham wearing a pair of tight, spangly shorts that once belonged to 80s pop idol George Michael – but that’s more Robotham’s MO than mine.' (Introduction)

'Two young lawyers return to the town where they grew up to surf a wave of ice addiction, defending a generation of hopeless junkies from the law and from themselves. But ice doesn't only tempt the weak and the poor...'

Source: ABC Radio National.

'Alex McClintock has written a very good boxing book and a not very good boxing book. As a memoir of McClintock’s brief amateur boxing career, On the Chin is a triumph.'

'The two Great Peters of Australian crime fiction — Temple and Corris — died within six months of one another last year. Each has a posthumous collection of shorter works published for the Christmas market: Temple’s The Red Hand and Corris’s See You at the Toxteth.' (Introduction)

Series one: Mick Taylor terrorises and murders a family of American tourists–but teenage daughter Eve escapes and embarks on a plan of revenge.

Series two: Mick Taylor encounters a busload of international tourists.

For a full list of episodes, see Film Details.

'Full of lacerating dialogue and typically sharp character portraits, R&R tells the story of US corporal John Ulysses Grant, aka Nashville, and his partner Shorty, an Australian military policeman, in the seaside resort of Vung Tau in South Vietnam, 1967. The Vietnam War rages across the country but Nashville's concerns are closer to home: how did a corpse, buried just days before, turn up in a local bar without any ears? Written with a brilliant, concise wit and brutal, uncompromising insight, R&R is a startlingly original portrait of men and war in the twilight zone behind the front, a searing study of the violence that we do to others, and ourselves.' (Publication summary)