Alison Booth's Blog - Posts Tagged "thriller"

Every Australian town and city has its war memorial. The fictional town of Jingera, on the south-eastern coast of Australia, features in all my books, and it too has a war memorial - right in the middle of the town.

Like most Australians and New Zealanders, I’ll be thinking on ANZAC Day - the 25th April - of all those who lost their lives in conflicts. ANZAC Day is held by many to be the most important of Australia’s national holidays, and it marks the anniversary of the landing in 1915 of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) troops on Gallipoli Peninsula in the Dardanelles. A landing that would lead to a dreadful defeat and a shocking loss of life.

Australia is now a country in which one in four of us was born overseas. And yet ANZAC Day is of growing importance in the national psyche, perhaps because our new immigrants too have so much to remember.

My third novel, A Distant Land, is not a war novel. But it was set in 1971, towards the end of Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War. And it is my own memorial to the victims of war.

The novel, part thriller and part romance, is a story of intrigue and also of a deep and enduring love.

See the reviews of the book at:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...