Bec Hill (Hodder Children’s Books) 2021, 166pp, RRP $15.99 Comedienne Hill’s first book is a cool kiddie title with nice characters, a sweetly rude sense of humour, and just enough scary stuff for rugrats....
Miriam Margolyes (John Murray) 2021, 437pp, RRP $49.99 The marvellous Miriam finally pens an epic, no-holds-barred (of course) memoir, mostly written during lockdown last year, and the result is a wonderfully...
J.P. Pomare (Hachette Australia) 2021, 325pp, RRP $34.99 The fourth novel by the New Zealand-born but Melbourne-residing Pomare is an unnerving, character-heavy thriller built upon an all-too-familiar...
Emma Haughton (Hodder and Stoughton) 2021, 375pp, RRP $32.99 Haughton’s first novel for adults is a psychodramatic murder/mystery pageturner with a lot going for it, although it’s somewhat undone by at least...
John Doyle (Hachette Australia) 2021, 295pp, RRP $34.99 Doyle’s autobiographical outing chronicles what he sees as the big year of his youth: 1967, when things were changing in the small coal town of Lithgow,...
Danielle Binks (Hachette Australia) 2021, 261pp, RRP $19.99 Melbournian Binks’ first YA (Young Adult) novel is more ambitious and moving than the form usually allows, with characters we really care about,...
Stephen King (Hachette Australia) 2021, 432pp, RRP $32.99 King’s latest blockbuster (coming hot on the heels of last year’s novella collection If It Bleeds and then Later, which was actually from another...
[BOOK REVIEW] Billie Eilish (Hachette Australia) 2021, 236pp, RRP $45.00 There’s some debate about whether this big, glossy tome is called Billie Eilish, By – Billie Eilish or Billie Eilish By Billie...
[BOOK REVIEW] Phoebe Wynne (Hachette Australia) 2021, 439pp, RRP $32.99 Former academic Wynne’s epic is too long at 439 pages and, like many first novels (and quite a few second and third novels too),...
[Book Review] Seth Rogen (Hachette Australia) 2021, 260pp, RRP $32.99 Rogen’s handsome tome isn’t a strict autobiography but, instead, proves to be a series of non-chronological, fondly-felt, energetically...
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