Elle Croft (Hachette Australia) 2018, 343pp, RRP $29.99, eBook $16.99 London-based writer, blogger and social-media-sort Croft’s second novel after The Guilty Wife is a readable if somewhat improbable...
Elle Croft (Hachette Australia) 2018, 343pp, RRP $29.99, eBook $16.99 London-based writer, blogger and social-media-sort Croft’s second novel after The Guilty Wife is a readable if somewhat improbable...
Parker Posey (Hachette Australia) 2018, 307pp, RRP $32.99, hardback RRP $39.99, eBook RRP $14.99 The first autobiographical volume by Parker (yes, her real name), cool ‘Queen Of The Indies’ back in the ‘90s,...
Lorrie Moore (Faber) 2018, 407pp, RRP$39.99 The multi-award-winning Moore (a revered short story writer, children’s book author, critic and commentator for decades now) has her key and favourite essays...
D.B. Thorne (Corvus) 2018, 352pp, RRP $29.99 Digital-entrepreneur-turned-author Thorne’s follow-up to the highly-regarded Troll is a psychological thriller that’s just screaming to be the first part...
Margo Jefferson (Granta) 2018, 144pp, RRP $22.99 Jefferson’s brisk biography of Michael Jackson didn’t win her the Pulitzer Prize For Criticism (as the cover seems to suggest) but is still fascinating,...
AMRC Hub at Australian Migrant Resource Centre Hub, Fri 16 Mar. [MUSIC/WORLD MUSIC – SA] Cafe Boite World Music & Culture, provided a foretaste and something of a casual, café-style rehearsal for their...
Noah Isenberg (Faber) 2017, 334pp, RRP $49.99 As the years roll by so many movies fade into obscurity, and yet somehow Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca (1942) remains untouchably beloved, and Isenberg here...
Liz Lawler (Bonnier) 2018, 362pp, RRP $29.99 Lawler’s first novel is set in her home city of Bath and benefits considerably from her 20 years’ experience as a nurse, meaning that the medical talk sounds...
Tom Lee (Granta) 2017, 153pp, RRP $24.99 A short story writer and academic, Lee’s first (and rather slim) novel is a crisply-written study of the plight of a titular character whom it’s almost impossible...
Mick Wall (Hachette Australia), 310pp, RRP $32.99 Rock author Wall is a goddamn writing machine, having turned out biographies on Prince, Lemmy and Guns N’ Roses in less than two years and then followed...