Books, screen, art and environment of lutruwita-Tasmania
Yaffler just finished reading another book not a fictional book but a real life account told through short stories about a man by the name of Philip Blake who’s originally from Ireland but now lives in Tassie. He has competed in Targa events here for a number of years and has had so many near …
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Yaffler is back after a break and has just finished reading another great crime novel by the writer SJ Brown. I have read 2 of his books previously, those being Deadwood and High Beam, and all the books follow the same formula with the main character being the detective – John Maloney of the serious …
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Recently I read a new book by an author called Jane Harper who has written a number of books, the first one being The Dry. That was turned into a current film. The Survivors is a psychological murder book about a group of friends from childhood all meeting again after good number of years and …
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Deadwood I have just finished a book by an author that I have never heard of who goes by the name of S.J Brown. He lives in the hills above Hobart. It’s a book about a fictional gruesome double murder occurring in Hobart and then a body found up at Bridport in the NE and …
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Two books I read recently are crime novels by a author who is from England but now lives in Tasmania, Alan Carter. Both books are crime novels both set in New Zealand, in and around Marlborough Sound in the north of the south island. They are both about the same character, a cop from northern …
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Welcome to this new section of Bright South’s website, which is kicking off with two sparkling reviews by Yaffler MacSweeny. They include Kyle Perry’s The Bluffs, and Heather Rose’s Bruny, which are just the first to arrive off the chopping block. Keep an eye on Yaffler! Read on to find out more about the man.
The Bluffs is a new psychological thriller by a new Tasmanian author Kyle Perry, set on and around the great western tiers in the fictional town of Limestone Creek. It is about a group of teenagers who go on a overnight school camping walk where three of them mysteriously disappear and a teacher is found …
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I recently read a Tasmanian based book about Tasmanian issues called Bruny by an author by the name of Heather Rose, who has written quite a few successful novels but this is the first one I’ve read by her. It is a fictional story about a bridge linking Bruny Island to the main land that …
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