Stephen King (Hachette Australia) 2018, 475pp, RRP $32.99 Hot on the heels of Sleeping Beauties, King’s similarly-doorstop-like collaboration with his son Owen, comes this rather less long-winded tale...
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Margo Jefferson (Granta) 2018, 144pp, RRP $22.99 Jefferson’s brisk biography of Michael Jackson didn’t win her the Pulitzer Prize For Criticism (as the cover seems to suggest) but is still fascinating,...
S.J. Morden (Hachette Australia) 2018, 330pp, RRP $29.99 Dr. S.J. Morden a.k.a. Simon Morden is an award-winning author and a bona fide boffin with a degree in Geology, a PhD in Geophysics and a background...
Clare Mackintosh (Hachette Australia) 2018, 390pp, RRP $29.99 North-Wales-based author Mackintosh’s first two novels I Let You Go and I See You demonstrated a knack for paranoid psychological drama and coolly...
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...
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...
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