Cult following: Em Bailey on ‘The Special Ones’
Thursday, 3 March 2016
Em Bailey’s The Special Ones is an ‘edge-of-your-seat’ YA novel that ‘marks the gradual return of the YA thriller’, writes reviewer Bec Kavanagh. She spoke to the author. What was...
Special (Georgia Blain, Random House)
Thursday, 3 March 2016
Seventeen-year-old Fern Marlow always thought she was one of the lucky ones—not just lucky, but special. She’s a Lotto Girl: before she was born, her parents won the chance to...
The Pain, My Mother, Sir Tiffy, Cyber Boy and Me (Michael Gerard Bauer, Omnibus)
Thursday, 3 March 2016
Michael Gerard Bauer returns to writing for young adults with a story about the rollercoaster nature of life that every individual experiences—the moments of happiness and sadness, the unexpected surprises...
The Secrets We Keep (Nova Weetman, UQP)
Thursday, 3 March 2016
Eleven-year-old Clem Timmins never thought her life could change so suddenly. After a house fire destroyed all her possessions and took her mother’s life, Clem and her dad have moved...
Dreaming the Enemy (David Metzenthen, A&U)
Thursday, 3 March 2016
Governments randomly selecting young people, training them to fight and then sending them off to kill is an age-old YA trope. So when the protagonist in David Metzenthen’s novel, Johnny...
The Special Ones (Em Bailey, HGE)
Wednesday, 2 March 2016
Four teens are prisoners on an Amish-style estate, forced to discard their true identities to play the roles that keep their online viewers fascinated. Their captor, the mysterious he, monitors...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 29 February 2016
The paperback edition of David Walliams’ 2014 children’ s book Awful Auntie (HarperCollins) is the highest new entry in this week’s charts; the British author has three more books in...
Murder most foul: Emily Maguire on ‘An Isolated Incident’
Thursday, 25 February 2016
Emily Maguire’s latest novel An Isolated Incident explores the aftermath of a murder in a small town through the perspectives of the victim’s sister and the journalist reporting on the...
On tour: Patrick deWitt
Thursday, 25 February 2016
Canadian author Patrick deWitt’s latest novel Undermajordomo Minor (Granta) is a black comedy of manners. He will be visiting the Perth Writers Festival and Adelaide Writers’ Week in February. What...
On tour: Muriel Barbery
Thursday, 25 February 2016
French author Muriel Barbery’s latest novel The Life of Elves (Text) is the story of two children whose amazing abilities ‘bring them into contact with magical worlds’. She will travel...
On tour: Patrick Gale
Thursday, 25 February 2016
British writer Patrick Gale’s latest book, A Place Called Winter (Tinder Press), follows the life of Edwardian gentleman Harry Cane as he is forced to relocate to the newly colonised...
Between a Wolf and a Dog (Georgia Blain, Scribe)
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
Georgia Blain’s Between a Wolf and a Dog explores the intricacies of modern family life with the emotional veracity you might expect of a book with a therapist as a...
An Isolated Incident (Emily Maguire, Picador)
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
There has been a proliferation of pretty-dead-girl thrillers in the past few years and it shows no sign of letting up. But don’t let the trend fool you into thinking...
A Kiss from Mr Fitzgerald (Natasha Lester, Hachette)
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
It’s 1920s New York. Evelyn Lockhart has moved to Manhattan to chase her dream of studying at Columbia University and becoming one of the first female doctors in America. In...
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos (Dominic Smith, A&U)
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
It’s the late 1950s and a young Australian post-grad student, Ellie Shipley, agrees to make a copy of a little known work by the 17th-century Dutch painter Sara De Vos....
Our Tiny, Useless Hearts (Toni Jordan, Text)
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
Following the romantic capering of Fall Girl and the historically set Nine Days, Toni Jordan’s Our Tiny, Useless Hearts is a highly entertaining romp through the complexities of modern relationships....
The Secret Recipe for Second Chances (J D Barrett, Hachette)
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
As Lucy’s philandering husband picks his teeth with a fish-bone pulled from a beautifully prepared roasted snapper stuffed with kaffir lime, she decides it’s finally time to leave him. Searching...
Where the Trees Were (Inga Simpson, Hachette)
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
Queensland writer Inga Simpson’s third novel is a moving meditation on the bonds of childhood friendship and the moral complications of atonement. The summer before they start high school, Jay...
After Before Time (Robbi Neal, HarperCollins)
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
When Robbi Neal and her family moved from Geelong to the remote Lockhart River Aboriginal community in Cape York to manage the local art centre, their plan was to stay...
The Art of Reading (Damon Young, MUP)
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
What’s the difference between a writer and a reader? In an ideal world, you would be both. After all, they say everyone has a story to tell. Damon Young’s story...
Everywhere I Look (Helen Garner, Text)
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
I’d probably give Helen Garner five stars for her shopping list; I’ve loved her work since Monkey Grip was published in 1977, the year I began selling books. I’m sure...
The Fighter: A True Story (Arnold Zable, Text)
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
Henry Nissen was a champion boxer in the 1970s. Still fit at the age of 67, he now works as a labourer on the docks and helps out as a...
From the Outer: Footy Like You’ve Never Heard It (ed by Alicia Sometimes & Nicole Hayes, Black Inc.)
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
For a pastime beloved by so many Australians, the loudest voices in the world of AFL are invariably straight, white and male. From the Outer provides a valuable contribution to...
Our Man Elsewhere: In Search of Alan Moorehead (Thornton McCamish, Black Inc.)
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
Journalist, war correspondent, minor novelist and major popular historian Alan Moorehead was one of the best-known expatriate Australians in the Western world. How is it that he is now almost...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 22 February 2016
Brotherhood in Death (J D Robb & Angharad Kowal, Piatkus) is the new number one in this week’s overall bestsellers chart, debuting in the top spot in its first week...
On tour: Joanna Walsh
Wednesday, 17 February 2016
British writer Joanna Walsh has been published in Granta, the London Review of Books, and the Guardian. Her latest book Hotel (Bloomsbury) is a cultural study of hotels that is...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 15 February 2016
This week’s bestsellers chart has a new number one with Danielle Steel’s Blue (Bantam) debuting in top spot on both the top 10 chart and the highest new entry chart....
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 8 February 2016
The Dressmaker (Rosalie Ham, Duffy & Snellgrove) maintains its position as the overall bestseller for a second consecutive week, ahead of All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr, Fourth...
On tour: Lucy Cousins
Thursday, 4 February 2016
English writer and illustrator Lucy Cousins is the creator of the ‘Maisy’ books. She will be travelling to the Perth Writers Festival and Adelaide Writers’ Week in February/March and appearing...
Archie: No Ordinary Sloth (Heath McKenzie, Five Mile Press)
Thursday, 4 February 2016
The word ‘sloth’ is unlikely to be paired with the adjective ‘energetic’, but that’s exactly what author—illustrator Heath McKenzie does in his latest picture book. McKenzie, who’s had success with...
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