30 Nov 2014
The Penguin Leunig: 40th Anniversary Edition – Book Review
Michael Leunig [Introduced by Barry Humphries] (Penguin Books Australia) 2014, 128pp, RRP $24.99 [Hardback]
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29 Nov 2014
DEATHWATCH: American Film, Technology, And The End Of Life – Book Review
C. Scott Combs (Footprint/Columbia University Press) 2014, 276pp, RRP $129.00
29 Nov 2014
EREN: The Terrifying Debut Novel From Simon P. Clark – Book Review
It’s interesting that Clark’s strange, sparsely-illustrated, impressively unsettling is-it-a-children’s-book-or-not? offering comes with a promotional quote…
29 Nov 2014
HOW TO BE NORMAL: A GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED – Book Review
Browning, a prolific writer, film director and ‘dad dancer’, is also the Creative Director of the ‘innovation agency’ Smokehouse (uh-oh), and this…
29 Nov 2014
Merv Hughes’ 104 Cricket Legends: The Whole Truth! Well… Sorta… – Book Review
“With legends, you can only pick 104” – Merv Hughes’ inclusion of an arbitrary 104 cricket figures who shaped his career is typically silly. “Stories, mostly…
29 Nov 2014
REVIVAL: Another Fantastic Horror Story From The King Of Dark Scary Tales – Book Review
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 of a…
20 Nov 2014
AYOADE ON AYOADE: A CINEMATIC ODYSSEY – Book Review
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…
20 Nov 2014
QUESTION EVERYTHING: 132 SCIENCE QUESTIONS – AND THEIR UNEXPECTED ANSWERS – Book Review
New Scientist and Editor Mick O’Hare (Profile Books) 2014, 281pp, RRP $19.99
20 Nov 2014
THE REBOOT WITH JOE: JUICE DIET RECIPE BOOK – Book Review
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 about…
20 Nov 2014
TRUE LOVE: Jennifer Lopez Finds Her Love From Within And Without – Book Review
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…
19 Nov 2014
CLEAN LIVING QUICK & EASY: Learn How To Live Clean In Today’s Busy World – Book Review
Luke Hines and Scott Gooding (Hachette Australia) 2014, 160pp, RRP $29.99
19 Nov 2014
Easy Luxury: The Darren Palmer World Of Interior Design – Book Review
Yet while the design of the book is high quality and the images attractive, I wasn’t immediately drawn into reading it because the text is just so dense and…