Caitlin Doughty (Canongate) 2015, 254pp, RRP $27.99 Doughty’s five-years-in-the-writing autobiographical volume sounds confronting and is, to a point, and yet this is less some catalogue of necromantic...
Vicki Edgson & Adam Palmer (Allen & Unwin) 2015, 248pp, RRP $49.99 Gut Gastronomy promises a “life-changing strategy” of “improving your gut function in its entirety”. Coming from out of Grayshott...
Alastair Bonnett (Quarto Group UK) 2015, 310pp, RRP $24.99 Bonnett, a Professor of Social Geography, here investigates places peculiar, transitory, controversial and sometimes pretty much uncharted, which...
David Owen (Corsair) 2015, 232pp, RRP $16.99 Writer, teacher, poet and gaming specialist Owen’s first novel seems like a ‘Young Adult’ effort at heart, and yet there’s both a sophistication and a desperation...
Marcus K. Harmes and Martyn Conterio (Footprint Books) 2015, 100pp/99pp Two of the most recent entries in the ‘Devil’s Advocates’ horror-movie-loving book series offer two very distinct styles:...
Emer O’Toole (Orion/Hachette Australia) 2015, 278pp, RRP $29.99 Emer O’Toole is a doctor, a feminist and an actor – aspects which all come together in her book Girls Will Be Girls, to examine how we perform...
Elizabeth Knox (Corsair) 2015, 445pp, RRP $29.99 The Wellington-residing and fairly prolific Knox’s latest offering has its familiar aspects, and yet it’s nevertheless pretty damn creepy at first –...
Amanda Hickie (MidnightSun Publishing) 2015, 384pp, RRP $28.99 In An Ordinary Epidemic, emerging writing talent Amanda Hickie tells the extraordinary tale of Sydneysider mother of two, Hannah, as she desperately...
Philip Glass (Faber) 2015, 416pp, RRP $49.99 Legendary musician, composer and innovator Glass’ slightly long-winded (well, he is 78) account of his life and times has a straightforward tone which sometimes...
PANTHERS & THE MUSEUM OF FIRE Jen Craig (Spineless Wonders) 2015, 130pp, RRP $22.99 As much as we like to think literature is ground-breaking, risk-taking and, above all, free from constraint, it is not....
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