Babes in the Woods by Kirsten Alexander   I live in Melbourne but was born in San Francisco. Why my parents left the United States for a place where they had no home or jobs lined up, no friends or family, is a mystery best explored another time. But as a result of my divided […]

SOME OF OUR FAVORITE WORLD WAR II SPY NOVELS  IMOGEN’S PICKS: Restless — William Boyd I’m a huge fan of William Boyd; he’s such a versatile writer, you never know what you are going to get when you pick up one of his books — other than an excellent story. Restless has a sort of […]

THERE’S TOO MUCH SEXTON BLAKE! by Mark Hodder Of all fictional British detectives, none has had so many adventures published as Sexton Blake, none bar Sherlock Holmes has been so famous, and none has fallen so rapidly from such a height into such obscurity. Were all his cases still in print, you’d be faced with […]