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 — 27 Feb 2012
The Ship by Stéfan Máni
A dark and claustrophobic thriller set on a boat filled with a dangerously salacious crew, The Ship won Iceland’s Drop of Blood Prize – the award for the country’s best…
Review — 27 Feb 2012
Partners and Crime: The True Stories of Eight Women and Life with their Notorious Partners by Rochelle Jackson
It’s easy to judge the wives and girlfriends of the notorious Australian criminals that populate our news stories, but in reality, the stories of these women are much more complicated…
Review — 27 Feb 2012
The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection by Alexander McCall Smith
From the hardest-working man in crime (seriously, the man must burn through keyboards) comes the thirteenth book of the Number 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series.
Much is happening in Mma…
Review — 27 Feb 2012
Budapest Noir by Vilmos Kondor
In pre–WWII Hungary, crime reporter Zsigmond Gordon drinks a lot of coffee, smokes a lot of cigarettes and goes about his job with a perfectly noir amount of sass and…
Review — 27 Feb 2012
The Rules of Inheritance by Claire Bidwell Smith
Claire Bidwell Smith is 14 when her mother is diagnosed with cancer; by the time she is 25 she will have lost both her parents to the disease. The intervening…
Review — 24 Oct 2011
Forecast: Turbulence by Janette Turner Hospital
Good afternoon everyone, and welcome to the Readings weather forecast, sponsored by Janette Turner Hospital’s glorious, weather-beaten short-story collection, Forecast: Turbulence.
Up north in Toronto we have an unexpected…
Review — 19 Jul 2010
The Passage by Justin Cronin
I’m all about investment. Not the financial kind, despite the fact that The Passage is, at 766 pages, value for money but character investment—where the people you’re reading about become…
