Virginia Macgregor (Sphere) 2014, 388pp, RRP $29.99 Milo is a 9-year old boy with Retinitis Pigmentosa. His vision is gradually failing; he can only see through a diminishing pinhole and one day he will...
Virginia Macgregor (Sphere) 2014, 388pp, RRP $29.99 Milo is a 9-year old boy with Retinitis Pigmentosa. His vision is gradually failing; he can only see through a diminishing pinhole and one day he will...
Kylie Ladd (Allen & Unwin) 2014, 274pp, RRP $29.99 Kylie Ladd’s fourth novel, Mothers And Daughters, holds a lot of promise. The set-up is immediately alluring: four mothers and their teenage daughters...
Tony Husband (Murdoch) 2014, 64pp, RRP $16.99 Take Care, Son – The Story of My Dad and His Dementia is a touching, relevant and easily accessible account of one family’s experience as their loved...
Marion Field (Right Way) 2014, 176pp, RRP $19.99 Do you know what a gerund is? Did you know that there are many different forms of pronouns: personal, demonstrative, possessive, reflexive, intensive, interrogative?...
Edited by Zachary Ingle (Footprint Books), 124pp. RRP $35.95. Ingle’s contribution to the ‘Fan Phenomena’ series (which also includes titles covering Twin Peaks, Doctor Who, Audrey Hepburn and more)...
Howard Hughes (Footprint Books), 2014, 291pp. RRP $36.95 The amusingly-named Hughes’ latest contribution to the ‘Filmgoers’ Guide’ series treads familiar, even fanboy-ish ground, and yet there’s...
Catherine Norton (Omnibus Books) 2014, 181pp, RRP $16.99 Eleven year old Cara is living in the shadow of a wall that keeps her ‘safe’ in her country, and free from the dangers of the mysterious country...
Rebecca Front (Hachette), 256pp, $29.99 You’d think that an autobiographical work from Front, best-known for her role in UK TV’s The Thick Of It, would be all about her considerable success, but this...
Viv Albertine (Faber & Faber), 421pp, $29.99 Albertine, a former member of The Slits, an all-girl British punk group around during the peak late ‘70s/early ‘80s period and contemporaries of The Sex Pistols...
John Waters (Constable & Robinson), 336pp, RRP $24.99 ‘Trash King’ Water’s latest tome is the result of his wild idea to hitchhike across America, from his home in his beloved Baltimore to his property...