18 Dec 2014
Marcus, author, journalist, academic, contrarian and one of the key music writers in the English language, here attempts to tell the story of rock ‘n’ roll via…
18 Dec 2014
Irish chat show host Graham Norton’s already written one autobiography so rather than write an updated version, he groups his life – and chapters – into things…
18 Dec 2014
Copywriter-turned-author Pateman’s follow-up to The Second Life Of Amy Archer is a rural English psychodrama with horror-ish touches that rather echoes one…
17 Dec 2014
Lennon’s literary début, first published in 1964 and written during the height of Beatlemania, is a joyously strange and silly collection of nonsense rhymes…
17 Dec 2014
Melbourne-based copywriter and short story writer Taffs’ first novel is a pleasingly nasty psychodramatic horror tale set early in the 21st Century which…
14 Dec 2014
The Festival Centre’s Christmas Proms has become a favourite on Adelaide’s festive season calendar and, although I am almost ashamed to admit it after attending…
10 Dec 2014
Judi Dench [With an Introduction by John Miller] (Hachette Australia) 2014, 256pp, RRP $45.00
10 Dec 2014
Orion and Various Contributors (Hachette Australia) 2014, Hardback 144pp, RRP $29.99
10 Dec 2014
Artist Donwood (best-known for designing album covers for Radiohead including OK Computer , which is why Thom Yorke offers the amusing promotional quote on the…
10 Dec 2014
Raved about on the cover by Stephen Fry, Harlan Coban, Neil Gaiman and others, Cumming’s first book is an autobiographical effort that touches upon the roles…
10 Dec 2014
Author and Oxford research fellow Larson’s compelling, sometimes gruesomely fascinating book was inspired by her time at the Pitt Rivers Museum, where a bunch…
10 Dec 2014
The novel boils down to this: woman locks herself in an apartment to control her homicidal urges, turns to webcamming as a form of income and then finds herself…