From the Book Shelf

Not an art related book this time, but my new favourite author - Kate Morton. I've been a bit behind, her first book The House at Riverton came out in 2006 and the next The Forgotten Garden in 2009.



I read them both a few months ago and was hooked. This young Australian writer has a sure hand, a delicious sense of mystery and does excellent and intensive historical research. Her third book The Distant Hours is just out and, I feel, the best yet.



In all of her novels, Kate uses a wonderful plot device of weaving the story lines between modern times and a point in the past; WWII, the Edwardian summer, WWI, etc. This can be cliche in the hands of other writers, but this author achieves a seamless meld that keeps one reading far into the night.