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,...
N.J. Fountain (Hachette Australia) 2016, 393pp, RRP $29.99 The first novel from Fountain (best-known until now as a comedy writer) is a vividly realised thriller that benefits greatly from its unusual...
Nick Cave (Text Publishing) 2016, 115pp, RRP $24.99 Not a work of fiction like his And The Ass Saw The Angel and The Death Of Bunny Munro, this one-of-a-kind description of life on the road as only Nick...
Edited by Sean Wallace (Robinson) 2016, 589pp, RRP $29.99 The latest in the rather mammoth ‘Mammoth’ series (which features offerings upon topics as diverse as Sudoku, Westerns, the Vietnam War, Dracula,...
Mick Jackson (Faber) 2016, 240pp, RRP $27.99 Yuki Chan is a Japanese student who travels to the UK to unravel tragic family secrets. Ten years earlier her mother toured Brönte country and left behind...
Simon Mayo + Mark Kermode (A&U Canongate) 2015, 335pp, RRP $45.00 Mayo and Kermode (of the UK’s Kermode And Mayo’s Film Review radio show and podcast) here adopt the notion that they’re ‘Movie...
David Thomson (Profile Books) 2015, 242pp, RRP $29.99 Thomson’s latest in a seemingly annual series of film-related tomes sounds like it might be a how-to guide for the bases of cinema studies, and yet this...
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