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Simon McDonald @writtenbysime

📍 Sydney 📚 bookseller 👨‍👧 dad

Joined July 2008
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THE WAITING is vintage Connelly. Another in a long line of Grade-A mysteries. He delivers the goods every single year. writtenbysime.com/2024/09/13…
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All I want is more reading time.
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I breathed a heavy sigh of relief around ten pages into Benjamin Stevenson’s Christmas-themed Ernest Cunningham mystery when I realised— Thank God! This is no Star Wars Holiday Special. writtenbysime.com/2024/08/30…
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So brilliantly absorbing, truly compelling non-fic—but so utterly sobering, too.
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I’m a long time admirer of Pomare, chiefly because he does nothing for show, everything for effect. And this is his best thriller yet. writtenbysime.com/2024/08/02…
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Going through the newborn stage a second time fluctuates between, “Oh this is a cinch!” to “Oh My God, we’ve done everything, why are you crying at 3am?!” Experience says it won’t last forever, even though ‘forever’ is redefined when a 2 week is old has been screeching for hours.
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Honestly, the new Chris Hammer mystery "The Valley" (publishing in October) is unmissable. Here's my early review. writtenbysime.com/2024/07/16…

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One more time with @Connellybooks.
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Amazing panel of crime writers. Meeting Michael Connelly was the coolest.
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The hallmark of a @candicefoxbooks thriller is a visceral pace that makes it impossible to look away from its pages. Case in point, “High Wire”—a book you don’t so much read as you do experience.  writtenbysime.com/2024/05/24…
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“A Calamity of Souls” is the best thing David Baldacci has written in ages—maybe ever. It’s got all the compulsive page-turnability of his best thrillers, but a lot more heart and soul than his customary actioner. writtenbysime.com/2024/05/22…
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I'll take one of each, please. crimereads.com/the-most-anti…
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Every bit as brilliant as I’d hoped.
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Swansea City should snap Mowbray up, pronto. bbc.com/sport/football/67621…

Tony Mowbray: Sunderland sack head coach after 15 months in charge

Championship side Sunderland sack head coach Tony Mowbray after 15 months in charge.

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Christmas has come early!
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.@candicefoxbooks’s bewitching blend of wild plotting and frenetic prose is on full display in “Devil’s Kitchen.” Imagine Michael Mann’s cinematic masterpiece “Heat,” but with Fox’s indelible storytelling swagger and you’ve got an idea of what’s in store. writtenbysime.com/2023/12/01…
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Candice Fox@candicefoxbooks
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AU COVER REVEAL… ON MY BIRTHDAY! It’s your favourite author’s birthday, Fox Fans. I’m 38! If you felt like giving me the best gift a reader can give, you could pre-order my next one, DEVIL’S KITCHEN, out March. Book is gonna your head on fire like a birthday candle. 🔥 🔥 🔥
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It’s that time of year when I try to catch up on all the 2023 books I meant to read and haven’t.
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I know Nathan Hill’s oeuvre is only two novels deep, but gosh darn, WELLNESS pushes him into my all favourites.
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