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...
Luke Hines and Scott Gooding (Hachette Australia) 2014, 160pp, RRP $29.99 This is the “Jamie’s 30-Minute Meals” book of the paleo-clean-living exercise‘n’food world. Personal trainers Luke Hines...
Darren Palmer (Murdoch Books) 2014, 216pp, RRP $39.99 Easy luxury certainly sounds very tempting… Yet while the design of the book is high quality and the images attractive, I wasn’t immediately drawn...
Rick Bragg (A&U Canongate) 2014, 498pp, RRP $32.99 Journalist, author and academic Bragg’s formidable tome about Lewis (or ‘Jerry Lee’, but never ‘Jerry’ and especially never ‘Jerry Lewis’)...
Edited by Lynette Washington (MidnightSun Publishing) 2014, 240pp, RRP $24.99 Breaking Beauty is a unique and at times unsettling collection of stories which explores the theme, What is Beauty? by cracking...
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by George Kaplan. Breaking Beauty puts one of the greatest obsessions of our time under the spotlight; a collection of 28 stories that explore the theme of beauty, challenging our perception of what can be beautiful...
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