Joan DeJean (Bloomsbury USA) 2014, 308pp, RRP $32.99 There’s no doubt about how much Joan DeJean loves Paris in the spring… and the summer, autumn and winter. To write to such a meticulously researched...
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Tony Kirkwood (Constable & Robinson) 2014, 194pp, RRP $19.99 Now is a great time to be a comedy writer, according to Tony Kirkwood. Even better, you don’t even have to be funny all the time – you just...
Junko Morimoto (Lothian Children’s Books) 2014, 32pp, RRP $15.99 The Japanese-Australian Morimoto’s beautiful book, first published in 1987, is one of the few offerings in the realms of children’s...
Matt Haig (A&U Canongate) 2015, 154pp, RRP $12.99 Supposedly a phrase book, a dictionary and a guide to the strange life form that is the human, and apparently written to aid Vonnadorians who are to come...
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Festival Theatre, Thu Dec 31, 2014 Thriller Live is the concert spectacular that has been taking London’s West End by storm for more than six years, making it the 20th-longest running show in the history...
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Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol The Bakehouse Theatre, Thu Dec 18 A Christmas Carol is the story of miserly Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation into a gentler man after visitations by the ghost...
THE BEDSIDE GUARDIAN 2014 Edited By Becky Gardiner (Faber/Guardian Books) 2014, 310pp, RRP $29.99 This is the 63rd edition of The Bedside Guardian, a broad-ranging collection of some of the year’s best...
R.S. Pateman (Orion/Hachette Australia) 2014, 339pp, RRP $29.99 Copywriter-turned-author Pateman’s follow-up to The Second Life Of Amy Archer is a rural English psychodrama with horror-ish touches that...
Greil Marcus (Footprint) 2014, 307pp, RRP $39.95 Marcus, author, journalist, academic, contrarian and one of the key music writers in the English language, here attempts to tell the story of rock ‘n’...
Graham Norton (Hachette Australia) 2014, 292pp, RRP $32.99 Irish chat show host Graham Norton’s already written one autobiography so rather than write an updated version, he groups his life – and chapters...
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