Maggie O’Farrell (Hachette Australia) 2017, 292pp, RRP $29.99 Edinburgh-based novelist O’Farrell’s memoir recounts her life as she keeps barely escaping death, and while having eluded the Reaper’s...
Maggie O’Farrell (Hachette Australia) 2017, 292pp, RRP $29.99 Edinburgh-based novelist O’Farrell’s memoir recounts her life as she keeps barely escaping death, and while having eluded the Reaper’s...
Linda Green (Quercus) 2017, 429pp, RRP $29.99 Green’s follow-up to her While My Eyes Were Closed was partly inspired by true stories of domestic violence, and while this has a supernatural/fantastical...
Laura Marshall (Hachette) 2017, 371pp, RRP $29.99 Kent-based first-time author Marshall’s psychothriller is a compelling read and intriguing on several levels: it’s yet another creepy character piece...
François Truffaut (Faber) 2017, 367pp, RRP $39.99 First published in 1966 and mostly drawn from a series of interviews conducted in 1962 (with help from a hard-working interpreter), this often-reprinted-and-revised...
Charlotte Rampling with Christophe Bataille (Icon) 2017, 112pp, RRP $24.99 This aesthetically pleasing book is supposedly compensation for a longer, more detailed and personal biography of (Tessa) Charlotte...
Ezekiel Boone (Hachette Australia) 2017, 328pp, RRP $29.99 Boone’s follow-up to last year’s The Hatching is equally readable, equally disturbing (especially for arachnophobics) and, it must be said,...
J.P. Delany (Hachette Australia) 2017, 407pp, RRP $32.99 This enjoyable page-turner from Delany (a pseudonym for a fiction writer and adman who needn’t be ashamed) has a coolly tricky structure, a few sweet...
by Catherine Blanch. Part Three in our series of interviews with Jimmy Barnes – Australian music icon, lead singer of legendary band Cold Chisel, devoted family man and best-selling author of his childhood...
by Catherine Blanch. We continue our three-part interview with Australian music icon, devoted family man and best-selling author Jimmy Barnes about his life between moving from Glasgow to Elizabeth, and the hope...
by Catherine Blanch. In the summer of 1962, Dot and Jim Swan arrived in South Australia with their six children. Travelling by boat from Glasgow, Scotland, this move to the Northern suburbs of Adelaide...