HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: A JOURNAL FOR HEROES, Cressida Cowell (Hachette/Hodder Children’s Books) 2014, 176pp, RRP $19.99 (Hardback) How To Train Your Dragon is a series of books by British children’s...
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Daniel Kehlmann (Hachette Australia) 2014, 258pp, RRP $29.99 The Friedland brothers, Martin and identical twins Eric and Ivan are fakes and failures. Their father, Arthur, abandoned them after a celebrity...
Miranda Hart (Hodder & Stoughton) 2014, 320pp, RRP $32.99 Fans of the TV show Miranda will be familiar with Miranda Hart’s trademark writing style and humour. Hart excels in creating moments of extreme...
Michael Leunig [Introduced by Barry Humphries] (Penguin Books Australia) 2014, 128pp, RRP $24.99 [Hardback] Originally published in 1974 (just in case you hadn’t worked that out for yourself), this anniversary...
C. Scott Combs (Footprint/Columbia University Press) 2014, 276pp, RRP $129.00 Combs’ academic work attempts to get to grips with the whole slippery notion of death and its representations in cinema but,...
Guy Browning (Atlantic) 2014, 224pp, RRP $24.99 Browning, a prolific writer, film director and ‘dad dancer’, is also the Creative Director of the ‘innovation agency’ Smokehouse (uh-oh), and this...
Simon P. Clark (Constable & Robinson) 2014, 197pp, RRP $19.99 It’s interesting that Clark’s strange, sparsely-illustrated, impressively unsettling is-it-a-children’s-book-or-not? offering comes...
Stephen King (Hachette Australia) 2014, 373pp, $32.99 King’s third book in less than 18 months (retirement just isn’t an option) is a less messy work than the uneasy Shining sequel Doctor Sleep and more...
Merv Hughes (Allen & Unwin) 2014, 288pp, RRP $29.99 “With legends, you can only pick 104” – Merv Hughes’ inclusion of an arbitrary 104 cricket figures who shaped his career is typically silly....
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The Grainger Studio, Fri Nov 28 Hannah Gadsby’s studies in the fine arts may not have led her to a career as an artist or curator, but it has provided her with some comedy gold in The Exhibitionist....
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