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...
Lisa Shanahan (Hachette/Lothian) 2014, RRP $16.99 All the kids in Lily’s class are so excited. It’s Pet Day and each of them is allowed to bring their favourite pet for the big pet parade. There are all the usual...
Emily Carroll (Faber) 2014, 208pp, RRP $29.99 Canadian graphic artists Carroll’s volume is a gorgeous, glossy collection of deliciously eerie tales inspired by classic Grimm fairy tales and the Gothic...
Roderick Cave and Sara Ayad (Allen & Unwin) 2014, 288pp, RRP $35.00 I’ll get the bad news out of the way first. It is ridiculous that publications such as these, which are impeccably researched...
Kat Su (Hachette) 2014, 95pp, RRP $14.99 Oh jeez! This really is one of those times – or the first of many, depending how often you pick this book up – that you can’t help but laugh at the misfortune...
Daisy Meadows (Hachette/Orchard) 2014, 173pp, RRP $12.99 Best friends Jess and Lily are off on another magical adventure. This time they have to help wake up Patch Muddlepup – Poppy’s twin...
David Mitchell (Hachette) 2014, 595pp, RRP $29.99 Every now and then you read a book so ludicrously original, so incandescent with intelligence and written with such audacity that you are stunned into...
Margaret Atwood (Bloomsbury) 2014, 268pp, RRP $35.00 The esteemed and prolific Atwood’s latest is an interconnected (but not always obviously), often darkly funny selection of nine short stories that...
Fern Green (Hachette) 160pp, RRP $14.99 As a self-confessed lover of the green smoothie and the energy-giving health benefits they bring; a little bit of weight-loss thrown in makes for a welcome bonus....
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