J.K Rowling: ‘Potter to potty-mouth’
THE first reviews for J.K Rowling’s new book, The Casual Vacancy are in. The Verdict? This. Is. Not. A. Children’s. Book.
THE first reviews for J.K Rowling’s new book, The Casual Vacancy are in. The Verdict? This. Is. Not. A. Children’s. Book.
WHEN Barnaby Brocket was born in Sydney, it was immediately clear he was an unusual child.
DADS are being asked to man up and read a book this Father’s Day in a bid to improve children’s literacy skills.
LIGHT and fluffy, cute and girly, The Charm Bracelet will delight author Melissa Hills loyal stable of fans.
IT’S a miracle that Billy Young is still with us. The 86-year-old World War II veteran lives in Sydney, expressing his wartime experiences through paintings and poetry.
THE book’s blurb says it’s a romp through the “dark underbelly of politics” and for once the blurb doesn’t lie.
IT could have been one of the world’s worst air disasters: a Qantas A380 had left Singapore on its way to Sydney when a mid-air explosion shattered one of the aircraft’s engines.
SUBTITLED The Year the World Discovered Antarctica, this is the story of the beginning of our knowledge of that vast frozen continent.
SWEDISH crime fiction remains favoured reading matter across the globe.
ALBERT is a lonely platypus and, armed with an empty drink bottle, he is on a quest to find a better world.
NOW this is a thriller that deserves some attention.
THE premise of this book for teens is an intriguing one.
DESPITE the eye-catching title and the arresting bare bum on the cover, this is a serious book.
INSPECTOR Hal Challis is a methodical, maybe old-fashioned, type of copper.
HIGHLY acclaimed when first published in 1967, the work remains a gripping masterpiece of wartime Vienna.
A TWISTED fairy tale. A teen who hates school and loves books. A loner who has a thing for her. All sound a bit too predictable?
MUCH like the electorate Bob Katter represents in North Queensland, this tome covers a vast array of ground.
THESE accounts, collated from testimonies from the two separate inquiries spanning the Atlantic, are absolutely riveting.
MEET Anita Blake, vampire hunter.
THE year 1862 was a very good one for merchants of grief.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN has a lot to answer for.
GERALD Murnane writes like no other in an exacting style, precise in its arrangement of thoughts through words and sentences.
I AM being honest, not racist, in saying that many people I’ve met would dismiss Double Native, although it is written by a prize-winning author.
SIMON Mawers’ latest work tells a story that I expected would tear at my heart.
“EDUCATING an unintellectual woman is like letting a rattlesnake into the house; she will lecture you on the inner symbolism of Camus while the dinner burns,” wrote John Cheever.
THIS year’s The Australian/Vogel Award for best unpublished manuscript from a writer under 35 went to Eleven Seasons by Paul D. Carter.
THE retired top CIA officer who ordered the destruction of videos showing waterboarding says he was tired of waiting for bureaucracy to make a decision that protected American lives.
CAROLE King delivers a breezy memoir. She admits the volume is no historical treatise: it’s her recollections, with the story occasionally using the social and political upheaval that framed those times.
ATTENTION all Jane Austen fans. The fascinatingly addictive world of Pride And Prejudice has now been recreated.
ROLAND Deschain, son of Steven, the last gunslinger of Gilead, is back. Do ya ken it? If those lines make no sense, then there’s really very little reason to read The Wind Through The Keyhole.
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