17 Mar 2018
Cafe Boite World Music & Culture , provided a foretaste and something of a casual, café-style rehearsal for their annual big gig – next week’s In Our Own Voices…
15 Jan 2018
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…
15 Jan 2018
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…
15 Jan 2018
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…
20 Dec 2017
Written by Jean-Yves Ferri and illustrated by Didier Conrad (Orion Children’s Books), 46pp, RRP $24.99
20 Dec 2017
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 them up…
20 Dec 2017
On the heels of Hill’s epic apocalyptic novel The Fireman comes this collection of four chunky novellas united (sort of) by the idea of weather, or at least…
9 Nov 2017
Lucas (co-creator of TV’s Little Britain , Peter Capaldi’s co-star in Doctor Who and more) here frolics through an alphabetical, non-chronological series of…
9 Nov 2017
Stephen King and Owen King (Hodder & Stoughton) 2017, 713pp, $32.00 (paperback), RRP $45.00 (hardback), RRP $16.99 (e-Book)
9 Nov 2017
The prolific Fowler’s gorgeous latest is a wonderfully witty study of authors who, despite huge sales, trendsetting innovations and major celebrity even only a…
29 Sept 2017
Edinburgh-based novelist O’Farrell’s memoir recounts her life as she keeps barely escaping death, and while having eluded the Reaper’s grasp seventeen times…
23 Aug 2017
Green’s follow-up to her While My Eyes Were Closed was partly inspired by true stories of domestic violence, and while this has a supernatural/fantastical edge…