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Book review: The Song Is You by Megan Abbott
This review of Megan Abbott’s The Song Is You is my first of what I hope will be many pieces for Patti Abbott’s excellent blog, Friday’s Forgotten Books. The Song is You is only the second Megan Abbott...
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Book review: The End of Everything
The plot of Megan Abbott’s The End of Everything is deceptively simple. Evie and Lizzie are two 13 year-old girls and best friends, coming of age in a nameless suburb in seventies Middle America. It’s...
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Top 5 crime reads for 2011
I was recently asked by the UK site Crime Fiction Lover to list my top five crime novels for 2011. I cheated a little and, in addition to my top five, gave a few honourable mentions. Money Shot,...
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Crime Factory Publications clocks on
Put the night of March 5 in your diaries, people. That’s the launch of Crime Factory Publications, a (very) small publishing company I’ve set up with my two colleagues and friends from Crime Factory...
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Book review: The Cold Cold Ground
I’ve been an Adrian McKinty fan ever since reading Falling Glass last year and was keen as hell to get his latest, The Cold Cold Ground. McKinty’s books are the kind of crime fiction I love, sharp,...
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Crime Factory: The First Shift Australian edition cover
I know I’ve been going on a lot on this site about Crime Factory Publications in the lead up to our March 5 launch. Yes, that’s the one with readings from Edger Award winning author Megan Abbott,...
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Crime Factory femme fatales
I have been meaning to post for the last few days about the March 5 launch of Crime Factory Publications. It was a good night. A decent sized crowd rocked up to Grumpy’s Green in Fitzroy to hear...
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Crime fiction criminals
By definition, the majority of crime fiction characters are criminals or at least commit illegal and/or immoral acts. But books where the main character is a full-time professional criminal are...
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Crime Factory issue 10 is out and other updates
A quick heads up that issue ten of Crime Factory is now live on the site and definitely worth checking out. The Crime Factory team have amassed a pretty amazing line-up of talent for this issue. Dave...
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Book review: Dare Me
“At first, cheer was something to fill my days, all our days. Age fourteen to eighteen, a girl needs something to kill all that time, that endless itchy waiting, every hour, every day for something –...
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Noir Con or bust
As if I don’t have enough going on crime fiction-wise at the moment, with my debut novel Ghost Money and the upcoming launch of Crime Factory’s all Australian crime antho, Hard Labour, I’ll be...
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My top crime reads of 2012
What’s the end of a year without a best of post? Recently, I was asked by UK site Crime Fiction Lover to list my top crime reads for 2012. They would only let me pick five, but obviously I’ve read a...
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My year in books: Court Haslett
The next guest on the ‘my year in books’ series is someone who perhaps does need a little introduction. Court Haslett is a San Francisco crime writer whose debut thriller novel, Tenderloin, features a...
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Adventures in noir land
It has been a while since I’ve posted here on Pulp Curry. This is because I’ve spent the last few weeks travelling in the US. I spent time in New York and Washington DC. I also visited the City of...
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My top fiction and non-fiction reads of 2014
Time for me to present Pulp Curry readers with the list of my best reads for 2014. As is customary, I will start off by admitting, yet again, I feel I have not read nearly as much as I should have. My...
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Book review: The End of Everything
The plot of Megan Abbott’s The End of Everything is deceptively simple. Evie and Lizzie are two 13 year-old girls and best friends, coming of age in a nameless suburb in seventies Middle America. It’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Top 5 crime reads for 2011
I was recently asked by the UK site Crime Fiction Lover to list my top five crime novels for 2011. I cheated a little and, in addition to my top five, gave a few honourable mentions. Money Shot,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Crime Factory Publications clocks on
Put the night of March 5 in your diaries, people. That’s the launch of Crime Factory Publications, a (very) small publishing company I’ve set up with my two colleagues and friends from Crime Factory...
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Book review: The Cold Cold Ground
I’ve been an Adrian McKinty fan ever since reading Falling Glass last year and was keen as hell to get his latest, The Cold Cold Ground. McKinty’s books are the kind of crime fiction I love, sharp,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Crime Factory: The First Shift Australian edition cover
I know I’ve been going on a lot on this site about Crime Factory Publications in the lead up to our March 5 launch. Yes, that’s the one with readings from Edger Award winning author Megan Abbott,...
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