Compiled by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin (and the ‘QI Elves’) [Faber] 2014, 387pp, RRP $22.99 Previous QI collections have promised to knock our socks off and make our jaws drop, and this...
Zoe Cormier (Profile Books) 2014, 331pp, RRP $29.99 Cormier, a member of Guerilla Science, a group that has successfully aimed to make science more accessible and fun (!), here discusses at length three...
Michelle de Kretser (Allen & Unwin) 2014, 85pp, RRP $14.99 Miles-Franklin-award-winning novelist de Kretser’s latest is essentially a long short story (85 pages worth, with large type), and can therefore...
Compiled and edited by Shaun Usher (Allen & Unwin Canongate) 2014, 318pp, RRP $59.99 Usher’s follow-up to Letters Of Note is another beautifully glossy tome, this time gathering together 125 lists...
David Nicholls (Hodder & Stoughton/Hachette) 2014, 399pp, RRP $29.99 The Petersen family, Douglas, Connie and Albie, set off on The Grand Tour, their last holiday as a family before Albie leaves for college....
Helen Stockton (Constable & Robinson/Murdoch) 2014, 1207pp, RRP $29.99 This is an excellent resource that creative writing teachers will find invaluable. New teachers will soak up every exercise and rejoice...
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Lily Brett [Hamish Hamilton/Penguin] 2014, 213pp, RRP $29.99 Brett’s latest, a 42-strong collection of short stories (or sometimes near-anecdotes or even jokes), is being touted as a loving tribute to the city...
Barbara Dynes (Murdoch Books/Constable & Robinson) 2014, 240pp, RRP $19.99 This is a comprehensive instruction manual that covers all the creative writing basics across 50 short chapters. Each chapter...
Alan Lightman (Murdoch) 2014, 176pp, RRP $29.99 Author Alan Lightman is a scientist and a philosopher and a novelist. While these disciplines seem at once at odds, he uses such eclectic expertise to bring...
Lachlan Creagh (Hachette/Lothian) 2014, RRP $14.99 It’s summertime and Wombat and his friends have gone to the beach for a holiday. Croc’s water-wise cousin, Salty, is teaching surfing to everyone...
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