Simon Sebag Montefiore (Quercus/Hachette Australia) 2014, 272pp, RRP $36.99 You can’t help but notice that the majority of speeches included in this book are made by middle-class white men. This doesn’t...
Mo Yan (Penguin Books Australia) 2014, 388pp, RRP $29.99 In Frog, Tadpole tells the story of his Aunt Gugu, a feisty young woman who trains in modern obstetric techniques and is scornful of old traditions...
Nick Hornby (Penguin Books Australia) 2014, 342pp, RRP $29.99 Nick Hornby has written some ripper books: High Fidelity, A Long Way Down and Juliet, Naked are my favourites. So when I picked up Funny Girl...
Joan DeJean (Bloomsbury USA) 2014, 308pp, RRP $32.99 There’s no doubt about how much Joan DeJean loves Paris in the spring… and the summer, autumn and winter. To write to such a meticulously researched...
Tony Kirkwood (Constable & Robinson) 2014, 194pp, RRP $19.99 Now is a great time to be a comedy writer, according to Tony Kirkwood. Even better, you don’t even have to be funny all the time – you just...
Junko Morimoto (Lothian Children’s Books) 2014, 32pp, RRP $15.99 The Japanese-Australian Morimoto’s beautiful book, first published in 1987, is one of the few offerings in the realms of children’s...
Matt Haig (A&U Canongate) 2015, 154pp, RRP $12.99 Supposedly a phrase book, a dictionary and a guide to the strange life form that is the human, and apparently written to aid Vonnadorians who are to come...
THE BEDSIDE GUARDIAN 2014 Edited By Becky Gardiner (Faber/Guardian Books) 2014, 310pp, RRP $29.99 This is the 63rd edition of The Bedside Guardian, a broad-ranging collection of some of the year’s best...
R.S. Pateman (Orion/Hachette Australia) 2014, 339pp, RRP $29.99 Copywriter-turned-author Pateman’s follow-up to The Second Life Of Amy Archer is a rural English psychodrama with horror-ish touches that...
Greil Marcus (Footprint) 2014, 307pp, RRP $39.95 Marcus, author, journalist, academic, contrarian and one of the key music writers in the English language, here attempts to tell the story of rock ‘n’...
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