Simon McDonald

📍 Sydney 📚 bookseller 👨‍👧 dad

[Simon McDonald @writtenbysime]

THE WAITING is vintage Connelly. Another in a long line of Grade-A mysteries. He delivers the goods every single year.

https://t.co/YKNKIyc7wz

[Simon McDonald @writtenbysime]

All I want is more reading time.

[Simon McDonald @writtenbysime]

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.

https://t.co/7uUKbPTEGz

[Simon McDonald @writtenbysime]

So brilliantly absorbing, truly compelling non-fic—but so utterly sobering, too.

[Simon McDonald @writtenbysime]

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.

https://t.co/EfFIdGTMMQ

[Simon McDonald @writtenbysime]

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.

[Simon McDonald @writtenbysime]

@candicefoxbooks I’ve mastered the art of living off 4 hours sleep. The dark circles under my eyes are expanding but my page count is rising!

[Simon McDonald @writtenbysime]

Honestly, the new Chris Hammer mystery "The Valley" (publishing in October) is unmissable. Here's my early review.

https://t.co/0sEDyAQ8vZ

[Simon McDonald @writtenbysime]

One more time with @Connellybooks.

[Simon McDonald @writtenbysime]

@candicefoxbooks @Connellybooks My two favourites in one room! 🤯

[Simon McDonald @writtenbysime]

Amazing panel of crime writers. Meeting Michael Connelly was the coolest.

[Simon McDonald @writtenbysime]

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. 

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[Simon McDonald @writtenbysime]

“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.

https://t.co/cfZd0eBwrg

[Simon McDonald @writtenbysime]

I'll take one of each, please.

https://t.co/10j9GCeOJ5

[Simon McDonald @writtenbysime]

Every bit as brilliant as I’d hoped.

[Simon McDonald @writtenbysime]

@aussiemoose I’m saving the Hallet for Christmas Day! 🎄

[Simon McDonald @writtenbysime]

Swansea City should snap Mowbray up, pronto.

https://t.co/aWQR5cleLQ

[Simon McDonald @writtenbysime]

@alwaysmorebooks I know, gonna jump into that first!

[Simon McDonald @writtenbysime]

Christmas has come early!

[Simon McDonald @writtenbysime]

.@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.

https://t.co/se6MFdHFG4