Margaret Atwood (Bloomsbury) 2014, 268pp, RRP $35.00 The esteemed and prolific Atwood’s latest is an interconnected (but not always obviously), often darkly funny selection of nine short stories that...
Fern Green (Hachette) 160pp, RRP $14.99 As a self-confessed lover of the green smoothie and the energy-giving health benefits they bring; a little bit of weight-loss thrown in makes for a welcome bonus....
Felicity Gardner (Lothian/Hachette) 2014, 25pp, RRP $14.99 For some reason, not one that he can think of, Little Max the gorilla wakes up feeling really grumpy. He doesn’t want his favourite breakfast...
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by Lynette Washington. Virginia Macgregor’s debut novel, What Milo Saw is already scaling heights more seasoned writers only dream of. It’s being translated into no fewer than ten – count them, ten – languages...
Axel Scheffler (Nosy Crow), 2014, RRP $15.99 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. Have you ever heard...
David Stuart MacLean (Faber) 2014, 256pp, RRP $27.99 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,...
Virginia Macgregor (Sphere) 2014, 388pp, RRP $29.99 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...
Kylie Ladd (Allen & Unwin) 2014, 274pp, RRP $29.99 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...
Tony Husband (Murdoch) 2014, 64pp, RRP $16.99 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...
Marion Field (Right Way) 2014, 176pp, RRP $19.99 Do you know what a gerund is? Did you know that there are many different forms of pronouns: personal, demonstrative, possessive, reflexive, intensive, interrogative?...
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