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Good Reading : June 2012
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www.goodreadingmagazine.com good reading june 2012 32 woM word of mouth June 2012 main Visit our Q&a page this june as we get to know two bestselling authors who both had other careers before becoming writers: one was a psychotherapist and the other a telecommunications engineer. we start june by chatting with american author diane chamberlain. often compared with jodi Picoult, diane has written 19 bestselling novels over the last couple of decades. Her latest novel, The good Father, is an emotionally gripping tale of a father’s love for his daughter and the dangerous measures he will take to protect her. diane discusses the path that led to her successful writing career, her favourite books as a child and how she feels about being touted as the new jodi Picoult. Head over to the gr website where the Q&a is now live! in the second half of the month we talk to australian author Frank coates about his latest novel, echoes from a distant Land. Set in Kenya during the first half of the 20th century, Frank’s seventh novel is a story of forbidden love as well as an examination of Kenya’s fight for independence. Frank shares insights into his love affair with africa, his most memorable experiences as an author and how it felt when his first novel, Tears of the maasai, made the bestseller lists in 2004. www.goodreadingmagazine.com.au Be sure to check out the website for the exclusive extracts and discussion questions mentioned below. exTracTs ■ Love-shy by Lili wilkinson ■ The mothers’ group by Fiona Higgins ■ cleo by Helen Brown ■ The children by charlotte wood ■ red dress walking by S a jones discussion QuesTions ■ ape House by Sara gruen ■ cleo by Helen Brown ■ The Bell jar by Sylvia Plath ■ The children by charlotte wood ■ great expectations by charles dickens Check out our online calendar for dates of upcoming author tours, writing courses, festivals and other book-related events. what’s on the website june 2012 Into the Darkest Corner elizabeth Haynes This is one of the most gripping, unsettling and terrifying journeys I have ever been taken on by a book. It will, however, divide opinion, as the issue that it explores is one that tears at the heart of our society. Catherine is a gregarious party girl, and although she is sick of the dating merry-go-round, she can’t say no to a night out with her friends. Cathy is almost housebound by obsessive-compulsive disorder, doesn’t drink and is hiding away from a world that holds nothing but fear for her. The story of how Catherine became Cathy is revealed in two timelines set five years apart. On a night out, Catherine meets Lee, a man she is sure is ‘the one’. But as the story of their relationship unfolds it becomes apparent how this drastic change of personality has come about, as a web of control and abuse is spun more and more tightly around her. One of the book’s strengths is the parallel telling of Catherine’s insidious descent into a hellish world of control and abuse, contrasted with Cathy’s painful journey towards healing and rediscovery of self. It might provide some readers with an answer to the ‘Why didn’t she just leave?’ question often asked in cases of domestic violence. rg Text $29.95 e Reviewed by Maryanne Hyde Revenge of the Tide elizabeth Haynes with this book I had the delightful feeling of having found another good crime fiction author to follow. Revenge of the Tide is Elizabeth Haynes’s second book; her first, Into the Darkest Corner, won her many accolades, including Amazon Best Book of the Year 2011, so I’m looking forward to starting that one next. Genevieve, a young woman with a boring corporate sales job, is looking to take a break from the rat-race by buying and renovating her own houseboat. To expedite her dream she supplements her income with a spot of pole dancing in the evenings. For (at first) unexplained reasons she abruptly leaves both jobs and uses a mysteriously obtained lump sum of cash to purchase a Dutch barge in Kent, which she loves and starts to live on. But after her boat-warming party, a dead body surfaces just near Genevieve’s barge; she recognises the deceased as a former friend and fellow erotic dancer, and her troubles begin. I thoroughly enjoyed this far-fetched thriller with its quirky characters, red herrings and tight plot. The suspense is built with flashbacks, which slowly reveal the extent to which our heroine is tangled up in the underworld, and real-time danger that becomes more and more imminent. Text $29.95 e Reviewed by Sarah Minns ThriLLer 32_WoW_c.indd 32 9/5/12 10:11:27 PM
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