Michael Leunig [Introduced by Barry Humphries] (Penguin Books Australia) 2014, 128pp, RRP $24.99 [Hardback] Originally published in 1974 (just in case you hadn’t worked that out for yourself), this anniversary...
C. Scott Combs (Footprint/Columbia University Press) 2014, 276pp, RRP $129.00 Combs’ academic work attempts to get to grips with the whole slippery notion of death and its representations in cinema but,...
Guy Browning (Atlantic) 2014, 224pp, RRP $24.99 Browning, a prolific writer, film director and ‘dad dancer’, is also the Creative Director of the ‘innovation agency’ Smokehouse (uh-oh), and this...
Simon P. Clark (Constable & Robinson) 2014, 197pp, RRP $19.99 It’s interesting that Clark’s strange, sparsely-illustrated, impressively unsettling is-it-a-children’s-book-or-not? offering comes...
Stephen King (Hachette Australia) 2014, 373pp, $32.99 King’s third book in less than 18 months (retirement just isn’t an option) is a less messy work than the uneasy Shining sequel Doctor Sleep and more...
Merv Hughes (Allen & Unwin) 2014, 288pp, RRP $29.99 “With legends, you can only pick 104” – Merv Hughes’ inclusion of an arbitrary 104 cricket figures who shaped his career is typically silly....
Jennifer Lopez (Penguin) 2014, 276pp, RRP $29.99 Many people would just write Jennifer Lopez off as a diva with a string of divorces. But there’s so much more to her than tabloid tall tales – as her autobiography...
Joe Cross (Hachette Australia) 2014, 261pp, RRP $29.99 Businessman Joe Cross was fat, sick and nearly dead when a juice diet transformed his life – and that of many others who were inspired by his documentary...
New Scientist and Editor Mick O’Hare (Profile Books) 2014, 281pp, RRP $19.99 The latest instalment in the New Scientist book series drawn from that publication’s ‘Last Word’ column (that also includes...
Richard Ayoade (Faber) 2014, 307pp, RRP $35.00 Richard Ayoade (pronounced ‘eye-oh-WA-dee’) is best-known as the very odd Maurice Moss in TV’s The IT Crowd but, in recent years, he’s directed two feature...
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