Chris Saliba's Book Reviews

This blog started in 2004 as a diary of my reading habits and contains over 1300 reviews. As of 2018, I’ve combined other blogs I wrote into one. To see my current reviews, visit northmelbournebooks.com.au. This blog is maintained only intermittently.

Friday, June 5, 2026

Old North Melbourne, by Fiona Gatt

North Melbourne’s First Fifty Years Fiona Gatt’s history of the inner city suburb of North Melbourne covers its first fifty years, from the ...

Lady Living Alone, by Norah Lofts

A woman too frightened to be alone comes to regret the company she keeps. Norah Lofts (1904-1983) was a British writer who specialised in hi...

Wednesday, June 3, 2026

Suspicion, by Seicho Matsumoto

A beautiful woman with a violent past is accused of killing her husband. But did she really do it? Onizuka Kumako has a shady past. She hang...

Tree. Table. Book., by Lois Lowry

When an elderly neighbour suffering memory loss is to be put into care, her eleven-year-old neighbour stages an intervention. Sophie Winslow...

A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir, by Jacinda Ardern

Jacinda Ardern's insightful and revealing memoir. Jacinda Ardern was raised a Mormon but grew more and more at odds with her church’s te...

The Dilemmas of Working Women, by Fumio Yamamoto

A quirky and enjoyable collection of five tales. In 2001 Japanese writer Fumio Yamamoto won the Naoki Prize in literature for The Dilemmas ...

Saturday, May 23, 2026

Murder at the Castle: A Miss Merkel Mystery, by David Safier

Angela Merkel makes her fictional debut as village sleuth in this good natured cozy crime series. Angela Merkel, ex-German Chancellor, has r...

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