Karen Hamilton (Hachette Australia) 2018, 357pp, RRP $29.99 The Hampshire-residing Hamilton’s first novel is a study of obsession, only unlike a Fatal Attraction, for example, this is actually told from...
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Carmen Maria Machado (Profile) 2018, 243pp, RRP $24.99 Machado has somewhat defied description for some time now, with her writing straddling horror, sci-fi, psychodrama, women’s erotica and ‘queer’...
Noah Isenberg (Faber) 2017, 334pp, RRP $49.99 As the years roll by so many movies fade into obscurity, and yet somehow Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca (1942) remains untouchably beloved, and Isenberg here...
Liz Lawler (Bonnier) 2018, 362pp, RRP $29.99 Lawler’s first novel is set in her home city of Bath and benefits considerably from her 20 years’ experience as a nurse, meaning that the medical talk sounds...
Tom Lee (Granta) 2017, 153pp, RRP $24.99 A short story writer and academic, Lee’s first (and rather slim) novel is a crisply-written study of the plight of a titular character whom it’s almost impossible...
Mick Wall (Hachette Australia), 310pp, RRP $32.99 Rock author Wall is a goddamn writing machine, having turned out biographies on Prince, Lemmy and Guns N’ Roses in less than two years and then followed...
Joe Hill (Hachette Australia), 432pp, RRP $29.99 On the heels of Hill’s epic apocalyptic novel The Fireman comes this collection of four chunky novellas united (sort of) by the idea of weather, or at least...
Written by Jean-Yves Ferri and illustrated by Didier Conrad (Orion Children’s Books), 46pp, RRP $24.99 René Goscinny and Albert(o) Uderzo’s names still appear at the top of each new Asterix adventure,...
Stephen King and Owen King (Hodder & Stoughton) 2017, 713pp, $32.00 (paperback), RRP $45.00 (hardback), RRP $16.99 (e-Book) The indefatigable Stephen King teams up with his son Owen (a writer just...
Christopher Fowler (Hachette Australia) 2017, 374pp, RRP $35.00 The prolific Fowler’s gorgeous latest is a wonderfully witty study of authors who, despite huge sales, trendsetting innovations and major...
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