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Burnside Community Centre – Hall, Sat Feb 21 The publishing of the children’s book One Step At A Time is the culmination of a Pozible campaign and a solid community support, authors Jane Jolly and Sally...
Robert Cozzolino, Alethea Rockwell and David Lynch (Footprint Books) 2015, 157pp, RRP $55.95 Before he was a filmmaker (and a rather strange singer) David Lynch was a struggling artist painting and making...
Peter Swanson (Faber Fiction) 2015, 311pp, RRP $27.99 Swanson’s second novel after last year’s improbable but enjoyable enough The Girl With A Clock For A Heart suffers from the same problems – irksome...
Ian Lowey and Suzy Prince (Bloomsbury Academic) 2014, 272pp, RRP $59.99 Inspired by a series of lectures they delivered at Manchester’s Cornerhouse cinema and gallery in 2012, Lowey and Prince’s study...
Sort of by Jimi Hendrix and edited by Alan Douglas and Peter Neal (Bloomsbury) 2014, 205pp, RRP $19.99 Certain diehard Hendrix fans blindly love this first-published-in-2013 work ostensibly by the mysterious...
Will Boast, (Granta) 2015, 281pp, RRP $27.99 Boast’s movingly personal autobiography’s title is taken from his belief that he was an ‘epilogue’ in his family when he lost his mother (brain tumour),...
Stephen Fry (Penguin Books Australia) 2014, 388pp, RRP $45.00 Fry’s third autobiographical work after Moab Is My Washpot and The Fry Chronicles suffers from all the same irksome problems: wild overuse...
Neil Patrick Harris (Penguin Books Australia) 2014, 294pp, RRP $29.99 Neil Patrick Harris, star of Doogie Howser M.D, How I Met Your Mother and countless stage productions, has written his autobiography...
Randall Hansen (Allen & Unwin / Faber) 2014, 470pp, RRP $45.00 Have you ever wondered why an entire population of people all banded together behind Adolf Hitler to perpetrate the worst war crimes recorded...
Anthony Horowitz (Orion Books) 2014, 310pp, RRP $ Commissioned by the Conan Doyle Estate to keep the Sherlock Holmes legend alive, Anthony Horowitz has now delivered a sequel to 2011’s bestseller House...
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