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Books
What Women Want
WHAT Women Want is pleasantly surprising. It is funny, to be expected from a comedian-turned-writer, but it is also sage, well researched and deeply interesting.
Antonia and Her Daughters
ANTONIA and Her Daughters is chick lit with guts and heart. Because it is a tale from Italy, it also has equal measures of romance and fire.
Crazy Enough
STORM Large’s memoir deals with her life pre-40. She has issues, lots of them, and wants to share them all.
Welcome To The Outback
A JAUNT through the Outback in search of the true heart of Australia has the potential to be an exciting and fascinating read. Sadly, Sue Williams book misfires in some crucial aspects.
Guts
KRISTEN Johnston is best known as the brash, tough-talking alien in TV show 3rd Rock From the Sun, but that character’s toughness has nothing on Johnston.
Horrible Man: Sinister Secrets and Truths Untold
LEONIE Wallace has an endearing manner in her first book, which centres on the unsolved murders of two women.
Bully Beef and Balderdash
THE Anzac legend is deeply embedded in our national psyche for good reason. It’s stirring stuff, writes Graham Wilson, but it’s more myth than reality.
Lake Eyre
READING Lake Eyre: A Journey Through the Heart of the Continent, the late Paul Lockyer’s passion is paramount.
Sweet Old World
THE Irish island of Inishmore is the perfect setting for a tale of love gone wrong and opportunities lost.
The Wrong Boy
THERE are many books about the Holocaust written for youths, so when The Wrong Boy crossed my desk, I couldn’t imagine what more needed to be said.
The Australian Book of Great Trials
THE author sums it up perfectly by suggesting that “these are not just Australia’s greatest trials” but “also some of our most remarkable stories”.
Inside of A Dog: What Dogs See, Smell and Know
ALEXANDRA Horowitz examines man’s best friend and overturns popular concepts of how dogs think and behave.
Fishing The River of Time
PART geology lesson, part personal history, the writer of this book has not quite decided what it is he is trying to catch on his fishing line.
Game To The Last
MANY books have been written about the Gallipoli campaign, but few have knitted the personal narrative to the historical data as well as Game To The Last.
Seize the Day
IT isn’t every day that you curl up and read a good book about dying. This isn’t, however, a solve-a-murder mystery.
True crime: Mad Dog
TALES of a Depression era killer in Sydney’s suburbs makes for a frighteningly good read.
The Aboriginal Soccer Tribe
FORMER soccer player John Maynard, explores the ins and outs of Australia’s Indigenous soccer players.
Death In Siberia
THE Kremlin is holding one of its top nuclear physicists prisoner far from international view, deep within the Arctic Circle.
Breakdown
THE indomitable V.I. Warshawski is back in the 15th book of this always-entertaining series.
The Conflict: Woman And Mother
IF philosopher Elisabeth Badinter was a Dawson’s Creek fan, one could imagine her disdain at Michelle Williams’ speech at the Golden Globes.
Women’s Stuff
WOMEN of all ages will get something out of Kaz Cooke’s new book, writes Trudy Oram.
Four books that changed lives
BEVERLEY Hadgraft speaks to four people whose paths were altered via the power of the page.
Fatal Flaw
THIS thriller wouldn’t have had a more comprehensive cast of killers if it was set in the middle of Long Bay jail.
The Kommandant’s Girl & The Diplomat’s Wife
ASKING readers to plough through 700 pages of anything is a big call. When its WWII it’s going to be heavy going.
The Tiny Wife
“THE robbery was not without consequences”, reads the first line of Andrew Kaufman’s latest novel and he’s right about that.
Crave
TWO high-school students. A love that dare not speak its name. The bloodlust that threatens to tear them apart.
Summer reading: 2011’s best Aussie books
A SERIES of essays by Colleen McCullough, a remarkable story about defying a dictator and a South-East Asian adventure tale are among the best books released in Australia in 2011.
The Freudian Slip
GIVEN the year, the setting and the number of references to bust-waist-hip measurements, it’s tempting to liken this novel to Mad Men.
Smoulder
YOU’D think spending centuries surrounded by soul-snatching demons might be enough to leave your average half-demon, half-fallen angel in a bad mood.
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