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Ooh it's chilly out there, but the fire is roaring, you're wrapped up with a mug of tea and all you want to do is snuggle up with a wintry read.
Greta Swanson and Xiao Recio-Blanco Share: Small-scale fisheries (SSF) have the potential to achieve true sustainable development for participants in the sector. SSF encompasses fisheries that are generally run by households using relatively small vessels, limited investments, and small amounts of energy. They usually make short fishing trips near to shore for fish that are consumed or sold locally. United Nations, Fisheries and Their Contribution to Sustainable Development: Small-Scale and Artisanal Fisheries 2 (2020). Worldwide, SSFs land half of all fish used as human food. Id. at 4...
Share Debut authors have had quite a battle on their hands this year. With bookshops closing in lockdown and festivals being cancelled all over the place, it’s been hard to get their work out to the reading public. But Crime Fiction Lover has your back, debutants – and we’ve sifted through our 2020 reviews list to come up with the best of the bunch. 5 – The Hunted by Gabriel Bergmoser Aussie crime writing is going from strength to strength and to prove it, there are two Antipodean authors featured in this selection. First up is Gabriel Bergmoser, a YA writer whose first foray into adu...
Share Most readers want the same basic elements from their crime fiction: an engaging plot; enough momentum to sustain the plot; well-developed characters; some misdirection; and a satisfying ending. This year my top five favourites not only had all the essential elements, they all included a strong sense of place, a pinch of dark humour, or both. Maybe the lockdown situation had me longing for a different setting and the gloomy state of the world required some twisted and humorous crime reading. Who knows? Make no mistake, choosing five was no easy task. Despite, or maybe because of the pand...