Matt Lucas (Canongate Trade) 2017, 321pp, RRP $32.99 Lucas (co-creator of TV’s Little Britain, Peter Capaldi’s co-star in Doctor Who and more) here frolics through an alphabetical, non-chronological...
Maggie O’Farrell (Hachette Australia) 2017, 292pp, RRP $29.99 Edinburgh-based novelist O’Farrell’s memoir recounts her life as she keeps barely escaping death, and while having eluded the Reaper’s...
Linda Green (Quercus) 2017, 429pp, RRP $29.99 Green’s follow-up to her While My Eyes Were Closed was partly inspired by true stories of domestic violence, and while this has a supernatural/fantastical...
Laura Marshall (Hachette) 2017, 371pp, RRP $29.99 Kent-based first-time author Marshall’s psychothriller is a compelling read and intriguing on several levels: it’s yet another creepy character piece...
François Truffaut (Faber) 2017, 367pp, RRP $39.99 First published in 1966 and mostly drawn from a series of interviews conducted in 1962 (with help from a hard-working interpreter), this often-reprinted-and-revised...
Charlotte Rampling with Christophe Bataille (Icon) 2017, 112pp, RRP $24.99 This aesthetically pleasing book is supposedly compensation for a longer, more detailed and personal biography of (Tessa) Charlotte...
Ezekiel Boone (Hachette Australia) 2017, 328pp, RRP $29.99 Boone’s follow-up to last year’s The Hatching is equally readable, equally disturbing (especially for arachnophobics) and, it must be said,...
Peter Swanson (Faber) 2016, 333pp, RRP $29.99 Swanson’s knack for character-based psychodrama doesn’t desert him in this, his third novel after The Girl With A Clock For A Heart and The Kind Worth...
Edited by Jim Al-Khalili (Profile) 2016, 232pp, RRP $19.99 Al-Khalili (OBE), a theoretical physicist, author, broadcaster and know-all, and 20 or so of his most formidably brainy friends and colleagues...
J.P. Delany (Hachette Australia) 2017, 407pp, RRP $32.99 This enjoyable page-turner from Delany (a pseudonym for a fiction writer and adman who needn’t be ashamed) has a coolly tricky structure, a few sweet...
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