Leigh Hopkinson (Hachette Australia) 2016, 312pp, RRP $29.99 The first book from stripper-turned-author Hopkinson is a most readable account of one woman’s experience in the ‘table dancing’/‘lingerie...
Mick Wall (Hachette Australia) 2016, 309pp, RRP $32.99 Rock writer and pro biographer Wall has always had an interest in the harder, more metal side of things (note his other tomes upon Black Sabbath,...
Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Hachette Australia) 2016, 404pp, RRP $32.99 As translated by Nancy Forest-Flier, Heuvelt’s latest novel is of course a study of evil (of all types), and while it works as a memorable...
M.R. Carey (Hachette Australia) 2016, 487pp, RRP $29.99 Carey (a pseudonym?), he of the “word-of-mouth bestseller” The Girl With All The Gifts, follows that one up with this weighty effort which begins...
Arlene Heyman (Bloomsbury) 2016, 228pp, RRP $29.99 New Yorker Heyman, acclaimed author, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, here offers seven not-quite-short-stories (40 pages or so is the average) concerning,...
Alexei Sayle (Bloomsbury) 2016, 324pp, RRP$27.99 Dear old Alexei’s second volume of memoirs after Stalin Ate My Homework (and following on from his acclaimed works of fiction including The Dog Catcher...
Kim Lock (Macmillan Australia) 2016, 320pp, RRP $29.99 Fairlie Winter and Jenna Rudolph are best friends and have been since birth. Their mothers were best friends who lived a few doors away from each...
Simon Morden (Gollancz) 2016, 340pp, RRP $29.99 Morden’s fantasy begins well and scarily but soon becomes irritating, with reams of familiar detail, lots of yakking, a certain overstatement and, most...
Linwood Barclay (Hachette Australia) 2016, 469pp, RRP $29.99 Following on from Barclay’s similarly-doorstop-like A Tap On The Window (which you might do well being intimately acquainted with before you tackle...
Sophie Hannah (Hachette Australia) 2016, 399pp, RRP $29.99 The prolific Hannah’s latest is a taut psychological thriller that can be enjoyed without detailed knowledge of the ‘Culver Valley’ series,...
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