Priya Parmar (Bloomsbury) 2015, 352pp, RRP $29.99 Vanessa Stephen, her sister Virginia and their brothers Thoby and Adrian are bereft at the death of their beloved father soon after their mother passed...
Marion Halligan (Allen & Unwin) 2015, 291pp, RRP $29.99 Halligan’s latest novel is often gorgeously written and melancholically moving, and yet there’s something a little precious and even (dare...
Bill Oddie (Bloomsbury Academic & Professional) 2015, 224pp, RRP $35.00 Oddie, the prickliest Goody and a famed ornithologist, environmentalist and general nature-celebrating sort, here collects a series...
Bill Price (Murdoch Books) 2015, 256pp, RRP $29.99 The latest in an ongoing series of glossy volumes dedicated to studying ‘History’s Best/Worst/Greatest…’ (mysteries, wars and so forth), Price’s...
Charles M. Schulz [and guests] (A&U Canongate) 2015, 323/325pp, RRP $29.99 ea The Peanuts comic strip (1950 – 2000), the massively and abidingly popular brainchild of Charles M. Schulz (1922...
Miranda July (Allen & Unwin) 2015, 276pp, RRP $27.99 Despite glowing praise from author/artist/filmmaker July’s bigtime besties (Lena Dunham, A.M. Homes and more) on the cover, this irritating novel...
Kate Hamer (Faber) 2015, 378pp, RRP $29.99 Hamer’s first novel is a compelling read that works as a complex psychological drama, a powerful study of grief, loss and healing, and a pointed attack on religious...
Debra Oswald (Penguin) 2015, 312pp, RRP $32.99 Debra Oswald, creator and head writer of the TV series Offspring, is just as skilled at creating character on the page as she is on screen. Useful is the story...
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Gluttony’s The Bally, Tue Mar 3 Simon Coronel, an unassuming illusionist, who doesn’t use pizzazz and sequins to blind us, presents true ‘glitches in reality’. We are beginning to feel comfortable...
Helen Fitzgerald (Allen & Unwin) 2015, 320pp, RRP $24.99 Former social worker Fitzgerald’s fifth novel is a ‘domestic suspense’ drama which might be labelled ‘Young Adult’, and yet surely...
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