29 Aug 2014
From the illustrator of The Gruffalo , Stick Man and Room On The Broom , comes the second book in the Flip Flap series; Flip Flap Safari .
29 Aug 2014
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 go away…
29 Aug 2014
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 one slowly…
29 Aug 2014
MacLean was an Ohio-born writing student on a scholarship in India when he came to in a crowded train station not knowing who he was or how he got there, and…
29 Aug 2014
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 be blind.…
18 Aug 2014
Do you know what a gerund is? Did you know that there are many different forms of pronouns: personal, demonstrative, possessive, reflexive, intensive…
9 Aug 2014
A lone figure onstage – Daniel Jaber – slowly flagellates his bare back in complete silence. For a long, long time. What follows is a confronting, at times…
9 Aug 2014
It’s Friday night at The Gov, and levels of expectancy are running high. Ed Kuepper, a genuine one-of-a-kind, lopes out to his centre stage seat and selects one…
9 Aug 2014
Everyone loves a party so there is no surprise in promoters actively touting Australia’s latest production of GREASE as the No. 1 Party Musical. Those old…
31 July 2014
Ingle’s contribution to the ‘Fan Phenomena’ series (which also includes titles covering Twin Peaks , Doctor Who , Audrey Hepburn and more) is a collection of…
31 July 2014
The amusingly-named Hughes’ latest contribution to the ‘Filmgoers’ Guide’ series treads familiar, even fanboy-ish ground, and yet there’s much here that’s…
30 July 2014
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 on the other…