Mitch Albom (Hachette Australia: Sphere) 2021, 271pp, RRP $34.99 (hardback) Albom’s newie is, like all of his work, full of sometimes rabidly religious detail (even his most famous novel, Tuesdays With...
Billy Connolly (Hachette Australia: Two Roads) 2021, 389pp, RRP $49.99 (hardback); $19.99 (e-Book); $46.99 (audiobook). Sir Billy’s proper autobiography (his Tall Tales And Wee Stories three years ago was just...
Jamie Foxx (Hachette Australia: Constable) 2021, 221pp, RRP $32.99 (paperback); $49.99 (hardback); $15.99 (e-Book) Comedian, muso and Oscar-winning actor Foxx’s first volume of autobiography is constructed...
ASTERIX AND THE GRIFFIN Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad (Hachette Australia) 2021, 48pp, RRP $29.99 The 39th Asterix book (or ‘album’), and the first published since the death of the series’ original...
Jimmy Carr (Hachette Australia: Quercus) 2021, 358pp, RRP $32.99 (paperback); $45.00 (hardback) UK TV perennial Carr’s supposed autobiography is actually an attempt to combine bitingly comedic memoir,...
Bec Hill (Hodder Children’s Books) 2021, 166pp, RRP $15.99 Comedienne Hill’s first book is a cool kiddie title with nice characters, a sweetly rude sense of humour, and just enough scary stuff for rugrats....
Miriam Margolyes (John Murray) 2021, 437pp, RRP $49.99 The marvellous Miriam finally pens an epic, no-holds-barred (of course) memoir, mostly written during lockdown last year, and the result is a wonderfully...
J.P. Pomare (Hachette Australia) 2021, 325pp, RRP $34.99 The fourth novel by the New Zealand-born but Melbourne-residing Pomare is an unnerving, character-heavy thriller built upon an all-too-familiar...
Emma Haughton (Hodder and Stoughton) 2021, 375pp, RRP $32.99 Haughton’s first novel for adults is a psychodramatic murder/mystery pageturner with a lot going for it, although it’s somewhat undone by at least...
John Doyle (Hachette Australia) 2021, 295pp, RRP $34.99 Doyle’s autobiographical outing chronicles what he sees as the big year of his youth: 1967, when things were changing in the small coal town of Lithgow,...
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