Book Review: The Story Of Billy Young
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.
Books
Book review: The Marmalade Files
THE book’s blurb says it’s a romp through the “dark underbelly of politics” and for once the blurb doesn’t lie.
Book review: QF32
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.
1912
SUBTITLED The Year the World Discovered Antarctica, this is the story of the beginning of our knowledge of that vast frozen continent.
Hour Of The Wolf
SWEDISH crime fiction remains favoured reading matter across the globe.
Albert of Adelaide
ALBERT is a lonely platypus and, armed with an empty drink bottle, he is on a quest to find a better world.
Criminal
NOW this is a thriller that deserves some attention.
10 Futures
THE premise of this book for teens is an intriguing one.
The Sex Lives Of Australians
DESPITE the eye-catching title and the arresting bare bum on the cover, this is a serious book.
Whispering Death
INSPECTOR Hal Challis is a methodical, maybe old-fashioned, type of copper.
Night Falls in the City
HIGHLY acclaimed when first published in 1967, the work remains a gripping masterpiece of wartime Vienna.
Between The Lines
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?
An Incredible Race Of People
MUCH like the electorate Bob Katter represents in North Queensland, this tome covers a vast array of ground.
Titanic On Trial
THESE accounts, collated from testimonies from the two separate inquiries spanning the Atlantic, are absolutely riveting.
Kiss The Dead
MEET Anita Blake, vampire hunter.
A Magnificent Obsession
THE year 1862 was a very good one for merchants of grief.
Empire Of The Saviours
J.R.R. TOLKIEN has a lot to answer for.
A History of Books
GERALD Murnane writes like no other in an exacting style, precise in its arrangement of thoughts through words and sentences.
Double Native
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.
The Girl Who Fell From The Sky
SIMON Mawers’ latest work tells a story that I expected would tear at my heart.
New Ways To Kill Your Mother
“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.
Eleven Seasons
THIS year’s The Australian/Vogel Award for best unpublished manuscript from a writer under 35 went to Eleven Seasons by Paul D. Carter.
Hard Measures
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, A Natural Woman
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.
Mary Bennet
ATTENTION all Jane Austen fans. The fascinatingly addictive world of Pride And Prejudice has now been recreated.
The Wind Through The Keyhole
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.
Glenrowan: The Siege That Shaped A Nation
NED Kelly can never die. This most famous of Australian bushrangers continues to offer a deep well of material for fact, fiction and cinema.
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.
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