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...
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...
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?...