Sean Michaels (Bloomsbury) 2015, 347pp, RRP $19.99 Leon Termen is a scientific genius. Among many other things, he invented the Theremin, a musical instrument unlike any other. In the 1920s he leaves his homeland...
Jon Bream (Voyageur Press) 2015, 240pp, RRP $39.99 Bream’s beautiful tome attempts to encompass Dylan’s vast body of often variable work, from 1962’s Bob Dylan to 2015’s inexplicable Shadows In The Night,...
“by Lindt” (Quarto Group UK) 2015, 54pp, RRP $16.99 Seemingly designed and penned by Lindt types, this attractive, Lindt-block-shaped cookbook has much to tempt the chocolate obsessive, provided...
David Astle (Allen & Unwin) 2015, 308pp, RRP $22.99 Astle, legendary crossword setter for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age and an author of several books on wordplay themes (no less than Geoffrey...
Hanif Kureishi (Faber), 2015, 219pp, RRP $27.99 The unreliable Kureishi’s latest combines short stories, odd essays on pet subjects and autobiographical pieces on sometimes minor topics, and they’re...
Leah Kaminsky (Random House) 2015, 286pp, RRP $32.99 Dina is the Australian-raised daughter of Jews displaced by World War II. She has married an Israeli man and is living in the melting-pot Israeli city...
Paul Edmondson (Profile) 2015, 186pp, RRP $19.99 Edmondson, a prolific Shakespeare author and know-all, contributes to the ‘Ideas In Profile’ series with this very accessible study of why Shakespeare...
Stephen King (Hodder And Stoughton) 2015, 370pp, RRP $32.99 The second part of an intended trilogy featuring retired Detective Bill Hodges (the first was King’s Mr. Mercedes, published last year), this...
Stefan Spjut (Faber) 2015, 587pp, RRP $29.99 It’s fitting that Spjut’s novel concerns giants, as his book, at almost 600 pages, is a giant itself, and while there have been elaborate comparisons drawn...
Owen Sheers (Faber Fiction) 2015, 311pp, RRP $29.99 Sheers’ novel sounds like a straight thriller (‘I Saw A Man Who Did Something Terrible’?), and yet this is actually an intricately-structured psychodramatic...
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