Fiona Hardy
Fiona Hardy is a bookseller at Readings Doncaster and Readings Carlton. She is also the author of books for children including How to Make a Movie in Twelve Days and How to Tackle Your Dreams. She is the former crime fiction columnist for Readings Monthly.
Review — 30 Sep 2012
The Winter I Chose Happiness by Clare Bowditch
[[clare-bowditch-rev]]All at once a great woman and an excellent songwriter, Clare Bowditch has woven her personal search for happiness into an album that extracts emotions from the listener without resorting…
Review — 22 Aug 2012
Coexist by The XX
[[xx]]A band that frequently ends up on the Readings Carlton turntable during long sunny Sunday afternoons, the yearning alt-pop of The XX is almost a physical comfort.
Romy Madley Croft…
Blog post — 27 Aug 2012
Q&A with Zane Lovitt, author of The Midnight Promise
Zane Lovitt chats with Fiona Hardy about his new book,
The Midnight Promise
Long ago I heard someone say that crime fiction is the ‘king of genres’, and I recall…
Review — 30 Jul 2012
The Sapphires Soundtrack by Various
[[sapphires1]]The 1968-set Australian film musical The Sapphires – written by the son of one of the band’s original members – received a standing ovation at Cannes and is preparing for…
Review — 29 Jul 2012
Norwegian By Night by Derek B. Miller
[[derek_miller1]]This book was smartly discovered by Henry Rosenbloom, pal of Readings and publisher at Scribe, so Australian audiences have a chance to read it before the rest of the world…
Review — 8 Jul 2012
Thirst by A.L. Larkin
[[larkin2]]It’s frankly cruel of Pier 9 to release a book as vividly written as LA Larkin’s Thirst during our winter—though it will make you feel more grateful next time you…
Review — 2 Jul 2012
Darkness on the Edge of Town by Jessie Cole
One dark night, Vincent drives home from an evening out and finds an upturned car in front of his house. Standing beside it is a woman with a baby, limp…
Review — 28 May 2012
The Only Place by Best Coast
For many, Best Coast’s Crazy For You was a soundtrack to 2010: a melodic, poppy, lo-fi ode to Californian angst.
While the sound in this second album has been cleaned…
Review — 28 May 2012
Blackwattle Creek by Geoffrey McGeachin
Melbourne in 1957 is a place still ravaged by memories of WWII, and police officer Charlie Berlin is a man who is having trouble letting go of his time in…
Review — 22 Apr 2012
Summertime Death by Mons Kallentoft
Scandinavian crime books thrive on the needs of more equatorial readers to hear about carnage in the cold weather: bodies in frozen rivers, decapitated snowmen, and visually striking covers with…