Graham Norton (Hachette Australia) 2014, 292pp, RRP $32.99 Irish chat show host Graham Norton’s already written one autobiography so rather than write an updated version, he groups his life – and chapters...
Sophie King (Murdoch Books/Constable & Robinson) 2014, 128pp, RRP $24.99 The real secret to writing a novel is just doing it. So, reading a book about writing a novel isn’t going to help… or is it? Actually,...
John Lennon (A&U Canongate) 2014, 78pp, RRP $24.99 Lennon’s literary début, first published in 1964 and written during the height of Beatlemania, is a joyously strange and silly collection of nonsense...
Philip Taffs (Quercus/Hachette Australia) 2014, 311pp, RRP $19.99 Melbourne-based copywriter and short story writer Taffs’ first novel is a pleasingly nasty psychodramatic horror tale set early in the 21st...
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by Lynette Washington. Fiona McIntosh is the British-born but Australian-based author of 28 novels for adults and achieved astonishing commercial success. Her latest novel, Nightingale, tells the story...
A. R. Torre (Hachette Australia) 2014, 128pp, RRP $49.95 I found it really hard to engage with this book. The novel boils down to this: woman locks herself in an apartment to control her homicidal urges,...
THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF CULT COMICS: Lost Classics From Underground Independent Comic Strip Art Edited by Ilya, (Constable & Robinson) 2014, 448pp, RRP $24.99 Ilya’s boffo collection of key examples...
Ray Winstone (A&U Canongate) 2014, 251pp, RRP $29.99 A diamond geezer, frequently fine actor and slightly scary old bugger, Ray Winstone’s autobiography is a highly variable affair, with lovely jokes,...
News NT (Hachette Australia) 2014, 118pp, RRP $19.99 The NT News (a favourite target of the ABC’s Media Watch) has been going since 1952 but, according to an authorless introduction, has only gone in for ludicrously...
Frances Larson (Granta) 2014, 317pp, RRP $39.99 Author and Oxford research fellow Larson’s compelling, sometimes gruesomely fascinating book was inspired by her time at the Pitt Rivers Museum, where...
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