7 Jan 2015
In Frog, Tadpole tells the story of his Aunt Gugu, a feisty young woman who trains in modern obstetric techniques and is scornful of old traditions which often…
7 Jan 2015
Nick Hornby has written some ripper books: High Fidelity, A Long Way Down and Juliet, Naked are my favourites. So when I picked up Funny Girl I was anticipating…
7 Jan 2015
There’s no doubt about how much Joan DeJean loves Paris in the spring… and the summer, autumn and winter. To write to such a meticulously researched book on the…
7 Jan 2015
Now is a great time to be a comedy writer, according to Tony Kirkwood. Even better, you don’t even have to be funny all the time – you just have to be…
7 Jan 2015
Supposedly a phrase book, a dictionary and a guide to the strange life form that is the human, and apparently written to aid Vonnadorians who are to come to…
7 Jan 2015
Commissioned by the Conan Doyle Estate to keep the Sherlock Holmes legend alive, Anthony Horowitz has now delivered a sequel to 2011’s bestseller House Of Silk…
7 Jan 2015
The Japanese-Australian Morimoto’s beautiful book, first published in 1987, is one of the few offerings in the realms of children’s literature about atomic…
7 Jan 2015
Simon Sebag Montefiore (Quercus/Hachette Australia) 2014, 272pp, RRP $36.99
5 Jan 2015
Thriller Live is the concert spectacular that has been taking London’s West End by storm for more than six years, making it the 20th-longest running show in the…
21 Dec 2014
A Christmas Carol is the story of miserly Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation into a gentler man after visitations by the ghost of his former business…
18 Dec 2014
Sophie King (Murdoch Books/Constable & Robinson) 2014, 128pp, RRP $24.99
18 Dec 2014
Edited By Becky Gardiner (Faber/Guardian Books) 2014, 310pp, RRP $29.99