Arlene Heyman (Bloomsbury) 2016, 228pp, RRP $29.99 New Yorker Heyman, acclaimed author, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, here offers seven not-quite-short-stories (40 pages or so is the average) concerning,...
Alexei Sayle (Bloomsbury) 2016, 324pp, RRP$27.99 Dear old Alexei’s second volume of memoirs after Stalin Ate My Homework (and following on from his acclaimed works of fiction including The Dog Catcher...
Kim Lock (Macmillan Australia) 2016, 320pp, RRP $29.99 Fairlie Winter and Jenna Rudolph are best friends and have been since birth. Their mothers were best friends who lived a few doors away from each...
Simon Morden (Gollancz) 2016, 340pp, RRP $29.99 Morden’s fantasy begins well and scarily but soon becomes irritating, with reams of familiar detail, lots of yakking, a certain overstatement and, most...
Linwood Barclay (Hachette Australia) 2016, 469pp, RRP $29.99 Following on from Barclay’s similarly-doorstop-like A Tap On The Window (which you might do well being intimately acquainted with before you tackle...
Sophie Hannah (Hachette Australia) 2016, 399pp, RRP $29.99 The prolific Hannah’s latest is a taut psychological thriller that can be enjoyed without detailed knowledge of the ‘Culver Valley’ series,...
N.J. Fountain (Hachette Australia) 2016, 393pp, RRP $29.99 The first novel from Fountain (best-known until now as a comedy writer) is a vividly realised thriller that benefits greatly from its unusual...
Nick Cave (Text Publishing) 2016, 115pp, RRP $24.99 Not a work of fiction like his And The Ass Saw The Angel and The Death Of Bunny Munro, this one-of-a-kind description of life on the road as only Nick...
Edited by Sean Wallace (Robinson) 2016, 589pp, RRP $29.99 The latest in the rather mammoth ‘Mammoth’ series (which features offerings upon topics as diverse as Sudoku, Westerns, the Vietnam War, Dracula,...
Mick Jackson (Faber) 2016, 240pp, RRP $27.99 Yuki Chan is a Japanese student who travels to the UK to unravel tragic family secrets. Ten years earlier her mother toured Brönte country and left behind...
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