Journal Archive
 September 1999 Volume 80 Number 9 "serving the protectors" |
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Mike Horsfall mich@picknowl.com.au |
Kirkston Abbey could easily be confused with any number of large organizations - it’s no place for the weak. Its aim is conformity and control; its rules harsh; its discipline savage. Its traditions, filled with the weight of years, crush individuality to ensure the survival of the whole.
Was this need for control the catalyst for terrible happenings at the Kirkston Abbey School for Boys during the bleak winter term of 1954? A seemingly innocuous friendship between two 14-year-old boys who embark on a series of psychological power games has escalated with increasingly unnatural and sinister results. But who, or what is to blame?
Now, more than 40 years later, journalist Tim Webber thinks he’s found the key to uncovering the truth. But is he prepared to live with the consequences of his investigation?
In the hottest book of the 1998 Frankfurt Book Fair, Patrick Redmond’s first novel brings the atmosphere of a single-sex boarding school in the 1950s to life. The Wishing Game manages to capture the claustrophobic atmosphere of repressed thoughts and emotions. It is a frightening example of the misguided beliefs of the past and the consequences of oppression.
Released by Hodder and Stroughton, The Wishing Game is available now at $24.95.
Lawyer Dismas Hardy is thrown into a worried panic when his wife, Frannie, fails to turn up to collect their children from school. But his panic turned to something more complex when he discovered that she had been imprisoned in the city jail for contempt of court. Frannie is refusing to divulge in a grand jury trial a confidence given to her by a friend.
Suspicion leads to anger, jealousy and frustration on all sides as more and more questions are raised in and out the courtroom. Then Ron and the children disappear.
John Lescroart was born in Houston. He is three quarters Irish with a French surname (pronounced less-kwa). Tirelessly writing book after book, fame and fortune seemed an impossible dream. Then a quick dip in the Californian Ocean changed his life forever. After contracting spinal meningitis and being expected to die within hours, he survived.
Within two years his breakthrough novel, Hard Evidence, was produced, followed by The Thirteenth Juror, which sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide. Nothing But The Truth is his latest novel. Released by Headline Feature, it’s available now at $24.95.
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