Fans of gritty outback Australian noir can rejoice with the release of new books by 2 doyens of the genre: Garry Disher & Jane Harper. Very different books, but both are good reads #JaneHarper #GarryDisher #booksky #outbacknoir @textpublishing.bsky.social murdermayhemandlongdogs.com/outback-noir...

Happy birthday to Edmund Crispin, one of the best, funniest, and most distinctive writers of detective fiction. Here's the first part of a wonderful article about Crispin: thepassingtramp.blogspot.com/2011/11/what... #booksky #detectives #DetectiveFiction #Mystery

World's going to hell in a handbasket. Here's 3 goslings hatched yesterday guarded by their 3 very stroppy parents.

Such a loss. Such a privilege to have lived at the same time as her.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Happy International Coffee Day! A German word that describes a coffee substitute, usually made from barley malt, is Muckefuck. It essentially means "rotting wood mulch" and can also describe any weak coffee. So next time someone makes you a bad coffee feel free to say "What the Muckefuck is this?"

Tonight's walk and this idiot marched into the dam like she could walk on water. Had to be forcefully discouraged. She's as blind as a bat and deaf but I thought she'd gone senile as well. Until we got to the dead kangaroo on the other side of the dam. Nothing wrong with her sense of smell then

Today's review is of the hilarious and hectic Everyone In This Bank is a Thief by Benjamin Stevenson tinyl.co/3ln3 A review in which I freely admit it'll be another couple of readings before I get all the clues in a straight line. Love this series. #BookSky ⚡📚💙 #CrimeFiction #AusCrime

Free Palestine! 🇵🇸

Very very serious fire situation built quickly down around Berringa / Derwent Jacks Road, near Ballarat. Massive worry for everyone in that area - it's not good.

Great reminder of everything the volunteers are called on to do. It's an all year round commitment

It is a long weekend for reasons which do not interest me one jot. So I'm reading to avoid cleaning out the spare bedroom austcrimefiction.org/book/everyon... #BookSky 📚⚡💙 #AusCrime #CrimeFiction

Will pro Israel lobby groups pay for this? Will Ita Buttrose pay for this? No, we will pay for this. The already stretched ABC budget will fund less local content this year due to political interference and terrible management. #OurABC #AusPol

Couple of reviews of very different offerings today: The Birthmark Murders by Janus Lucky tinyl.co/3jWB First novel, dry & darkly humorous. The White Feather Murders by Laraine Stephens tinyl.co/3jWE historical setting, full of dash, speed & flair. #BookSky ⚡📚💙 #CrimeFiction #AusCrime #YeahNoir

Came across this shot of ¨The Emu Rising¨ from the beginning of this year on a wonderful night of 24 hour power blackout. You will see the head of the Emu touching the bottom star of the Southern Cross. A strong symbol in Australian First Nations Culture.

Sunday night's life admin task done and dusted. Disney+ sub cancelled with a why explanation entered under "other".

Looking good for an old bugger Sir Gregory. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Haven't seen the vets for a week or so, so Mambo and his teeth and Lillie here with an infection in her very private parts. That was an examination that none of us are going to forget in a hurry...

“Eurovision’s ‘unity through music’ theme is hard to swallow when one contestant is committing ethnic cleansing, starving civilians and killing children. Shoe ridge accused Eurovision of “gross double standards” by banning Russia…but “rolling out the red carpet for Israel”…” #AusPol #Gaza

Cut the cord already, Sue. Let the boy stand on his own two feet while drinking out of a third.

Poor boy, as of yesterday afternoon, no more front teeth. Dental procedure all done, he's recovering well and we're trying not to be too chuffed about him not being able to bite (mostly just us) anymore

just wrote to SBS: www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s... If Israel are on that stage next year then for the first time since they started broadcasting, we won't be watching.

To journalists various: the issue is not whether the coalition tears itself apart over climate denialism… the issue is whether we do what we can to save our home. Stop reporting the goddam horse race.

I do "admire" the way Andrew Hastie thinks anyone cares about how or when he abandons the sinking ship. #AusPol

If you couple that with this: news.cfa.vic.gov.au/news/victori... - the prospects are not good.

Having finished a few review books in the last few weeks, and being totally unable to decide what's next, I've gone with an old one on the list I've been meaning to read for ages: www.austcrimefiction.org/book/dead-li... Call it sheer indulgence.... #BookSky ⚡📚💙 #CrimeFiction

Aging isn’t gradual. One day you’re 25 drinking vodka out of a shoe, the next you’re 40 and a single wrong pillow angle ruins your entire skeletal system.

Thoughts (not) with the racists this week who have finally found somebody else to champion their views... and then twigged who it was.

At what stage do we start referring to this awful creature as a vexatious litigant? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Front page on the Guardian of all places! I can hear Jill's tutt from here www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Today's review is from @sakienvirotech.com on the much discussed recent release The Turing Protocol by Nick Croydon. Fair to say, he had ... issues.... tinyl.co/3fWn #BookSky ⚡📚💙 #CrimeFiction #AusCrime

Today a couple of reviews are from the #yeahnoir piles. Very different: The Deeper the Dead, Catherine Lea tinyl.co/3ec4 and The Night She Fell, Eileen Merriman Police procedural and a psychological teenage angst about control and exploitation. #BookSky ⚡📚💙 #CrimeFiction

Proofs of #TheNancys by RWR Mcdonald have landed 💎🕵️‍♀️ Eleven-year-old Tippy forms The Nancys, a secret detective club, to solve a deadly Christmas mystery in small-town New Zealand. Gripping, hilarious & heartwarming! Out 6/11 📕 bit.ly/4mHDbiE #BookSky #CrimeFiction #NewBooks

Two new reviews today Highway 13, Fiona McFarlane: tinyl.co/3eKE Very clever connected short stories. The Hollow Girl, Lyn Yeowart tinyl.co/3eKG Gives a voice to young woman in a devastating scenario Both exploring consequences of criminal behaviour. #BookSky ⚡📚💙 #CrimeFiction #AusCrime

Still trying to process a story I read this morning saying this SovCitz waste of oxygen they are hunting for in the High Country is on a disability pension. I mean wtaf

It was a full house at Wardini Books in Napier for our ‘Clues, Crime & Craft’ event last night! Louise Ward and Bing Turkby warmed everyone up with a musical performance before Riley Chance and I joined the panel for a fun and free-flowing chat. [1/4] #Mystery #WriteSky #WritingCommunity 🌈📚🇳🇿📚💙🔎💀📚👀

Last fortnight on AustCrime: www.austcrimefiction.org/last-fortnig... Worth Mentioning: Black Silk & Buried Secrets, Innocent Guilt, Five Found Dead and you may notice some acquisitions from writers who pulled out of the Bendigo Writers Festival #BookSky ⚡📚💙 #CrimeFiction #AusCrime #YeahNoir

Wonderful night at Sean and Dolly's last night for the launch of Mandy Sayer's new book No Dancing in the Lift - a gripping story of a writer and a moving continuation of the story begun in Dreamtime Alice. Love, death, the whole damn thing. #memoir #AustralianWriters #BookSky 💙 📚

No idea what Linda Reynolds thinks she's achieved with that defamation win, although to be fair, it's cemented my opinion of her reputation once and for all.

I know the wonderful @nancycato.bsky.social hasn't been around here lately (miss her!) but just noticed this in my feeds for those who aren't aware of just what an amazing woman she is: tvtonight.com.au/2025/08/nost...

@RonniSalt so often wipes the insects off the national windscreen and tells us exactly what's going on.

Somebody needs to explain that there's nothing amusing about him at all. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

An overhaul is more than needed, himself applied for a Working With Children check yesterday because of his CFA position and it came back as okayed in <10 minutes. Online, a few documents, that's it. No eyeballing, no third party references, nothing. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Very useful for those of us acting on our Bendigo Writers withdrawals purchase list.

My #review of the latest by prolific, and always clever / fun author @sularigentill.bsky.social Five Found Dead: www.austcrimefiction.org/review/five-... ... hugely entertaining novel, fascinatingly clever ... #BookSky ⚡📚💙 #CrimeFiction #AusCrime

From the YMMV stacks, a rare DNF: The Empress Murders by Toby Schmitz - I don't know, maybe I missed the point. www.austcrimefiction.org/review/the-e... ... when housework starts to sound appealing, I'm in the wrong book. #BookSky ⚡📚💙 #CrimeFiction #AusCrime

Bookish in Bendigo have pulled out as Bendigo Writers Festival's bookseller - this principled move comes at great cost to them as an independent store. If you've been thinking of purchasing a book (esp. one by someone who's also pulled labour from BWF), consider going to them! +61 3 5406 0596

Am now thoroughly enjoying myself building a list of books by authors who have pulled out of the Bendigo Writers Festival. Pickup of the library holds may require a few trips this time around, plus it's been a pleasure to buy quite a few that sounded too good not to own.

Luckily I hadn't quite finalised my Bendigo Writers Festival events so that's a shopping cart cleared

Been a while - so recent postings of which there were ... well a lot. www.austcrimefiction.org/last-fortnig... Lots of new releases & reviews - notably there's a new Adrian Hyland novel on the way, as well as what's probably the last Phryne Fisher #BookSky ⚡📚💙 #CrimeFiction #AusCrime #YeahNoir