by Mic Loves Books | Apr 20, 2018 | Round-ups
I promised myself after jumping in at the deep end in February that I would be a little more organised for this round-up but we are right in the middle of school holidays with all 4 children at home all day every day and things aren’t quite going as productively...
by bernadetteinoz | Dec 15, 2017 | Round-ups
The final round up of crime fiction and true crime reviews for 2017 covers an eclectic mix of titles. There have not been a huge number of new releases in the past two months and many Challenge participants have already turned their minds to holiday preparation which...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Oct 3, 2016 | Round-ups
Looking for something to read this long weekend? The Australian Women Writers Challenge database has links to reviews of over 3000 books by Australian women. You can search by genre or year or author or title, or just browse through alphabetically. With a day of...
by bernadetteinoz | Feb 19, 2016 | Round-ups
The crime fiction and true crime genre has attracted 45 reviews or discussions since the first of January with a total of 33 distinct books by 24 different authors being discussed, making this ‘our’ best start to an AWW challenge. The most popular book is...
by bernadetteinoz | Jan 3, 2013 | Round-ups
Australian women have been writing crime fiction for a long time. The country’s first acknowledged mystery story by a person of any gender was 1865’s Force and Fraud and it was written by proto-feminist Ellen Davitt. There is excellent, though somewhat disheartening,...