NEW RELEASE BOOK – MEDIA UPDATE YOUNG ADULT: The Yellow Room by Jess Vallance HotKey October 2016 Paperback, $16.99 272 Pages Young Adult/Metal Health/Relationships If you receive a letter telling you your father has died, what do you do? Anna’s father left when she was very young and Anna, now 16, is living with […]
NEW RELEASE BOOK – MEDIA UPDATE YOUNG ADULT: Swarm by Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan, Deborah Biancotti Allen & Unwin October 2016 Paperback, $19.99 400 pages Young Adult/Speculative Steph’s review of Book 1: Zeroes, can be found HERE! The second book in the unputdownable, action-packed Zeroes series from New York Times bestselling authors. EVERY POWER HAS […]
BOOK REVIEW: Small Things by Mel Tregonning Allen & Unwin September 2016 Hardcover, $29.99 Reviewed by Steph O’Connell Graphic Novel/Picture Book/Issues Based 9/10 ‘The best art gives a voice to the voiceless parts of our lives, and Small Things does so with heartfelt precision.‘ – Shaun Tan Through the use of illustrations only, Mel Tregonning […]
NEW RELEASE BOOK – MEDIA UPDATE CHILDREN’S FICTION: Escape to the Moon Islands by Mardi McConnochie Allen & Unwin August 2016 Paperback, $14.99 352 pages Middle Grade/Adventure The first in an adventurous new series from scriptwriter and highly-acclaimed author Mardi McConnochie. When Will and Annalie’s father disappears, they set out on a perilous sea […]
BOOK REVIEW: Pinball Science by Ian Graham Crows Nest August 2016 Hardcover, $29.99 Reviewed by Steph O’Connell Popular Science 8/10 This combination of activity and reference book is a great way for kids to learn about science and for grownups to refresh the things they learnt in school, while having a bit of fun. With […]
NEW RELEASE BOOK – MEDIA UPDATE MIDDLE GRADE: My Gym Teacher is an Alien Overlord by David Solomons Nosy Crow June 2016 Paperback, $12.99 320 pages Middle Grade Fiction Luke could have been a superhero, except he needed to wee but that won’t stop him saving the world! Super-exciting, laugh-out-loud funny, and with enough heart to fill […]
NEW RELEASE BOOK – MEDIA UPDATE FICTION: The One Man by Andrew Gross Macmillan August 2016 Paperback, $29.99 352 pages Crime/Thriller Poland, 1944 Alfred Mendl counts down his final days within the confines of a hell on earth. His family was torn away from him on arrival, his life’s work was burned before his eyes. Now […]
NEW RELEASE BOOK – MEDIA UPDATE FICTION: The Mare by Mary Gaitskill Serpent’s Tail August 2016 Paperback, $29.99 448 pages Literary Fiction A profound, important novel about how love and family are shaped by race, class and privilege. Ginger is forty-seven and a recovering alcoholic when she meets and marries Paul. It’s too late for her […]
NEW RELEASE BOOK – MEDIA UPDATE FICTION: The Last Photograph by Emma Chapman Picador August 2016 Paperback, $29.99 336 pages Fiction The enthralling new novel from the highly acclaimed author of How To Be A Good Wife “Evocative, harrowing … Emma Chapman tackles the big subjects of love and war with aplomb”Tatler He walks into the […]
NEW RELEASE BOOK – MEDIA UPDATE FICTION: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Fleet August 2016 Paperback, $32.99 352 pages Fiction/Alternate History From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent, wrenching, thrilling tour de force chronicling a young slave’s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. Cora […]
NEW RELEASE BOOK – MEDIA UPDATE YOUNG ADULT: Promising Azra by Helen Thurloe Allen & Unwin July 2016 Paperback, $19.99 368 pages Young Adult/Contemporary ‘Reading Promising Azra prompted me to revisit stories I have heard too many times to count. Forced marriage is not bound to a certain culture or religion, it’s an epidemic affecting […]
