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Canberra by Paul Daley
[[paul-daley-rev]]Cities have, in our popular culture, a tendency to gather their own particular set of clichés. Like a cast of characters on a midday TV show, their roles are fixed, enacted and repeated, and the stereotypes can be hard to…
Whisky Charlie Foxtrot by Annabel Smith
[[annabel-smith-rev]]Whisky is William, Charlie is his identical twin brother, and learning the foxtrot is one of the many incidents that drive the two apart in this absorbing story about families, shifting perspective and the task of bringing people back together…
The Happiness Show by Catherine Deveny
[[catherine-deveny-rev]]Life is a funny thing. The people we meet, the connections we make and then the connections we lose.
I have always loved Catherine Deveny’s writing style and having a whole book of it makes me feel spoilt. The Happiness…
I Made Lattes For A Love God by Wendy Harmer
[[wendy]]I Made Lattes For A Love God is enjoyable, humorous and easy to follow right from the beginning.
The book follows the story of a teenage girl, Elly Pickering, and her love for Hollywood movie star Jake Blake. Elly’s…
Creepy & Maud by Dianne Touchelle
Creepy is not his real name – rather it’s the name that Maud, the girl next door, calls him. But then Maud is not her real name either, it’s just what Creepy calls her. Confused?
Well then, welcome to the…
Love Looks Not with the Eyes: Thirteen Years with Lee Alexander McQueen by Anne Deniau
If you are, or claim to be a fashionista of taste and style, and appreciate talent and genius, then I highly recommend you add this book to your collection.
Anne Deniau’s photographs of 13 years behind the scenes with Alexander…
Building Stories by Chris Ware
Building Stories is the imaginative, inventive and kind-of-intimidating new release from Chris Ware, the author of the widely-acclaimed Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth.
I’m hesitant to call Building Stories a ‘book’ when it’s actually more like a…
Brave Squish Rabbit by Katherine Battersby
[[battersby]]In the follow-up to Squish Rabbit, Squish lets us in on some of his biggest fears. Squish doesn’t like storms and he especially doesn’t like the dark. (To this particular reviewer, of great interest is Squish’s fear of chickens…
The Haunted Man by Bat for Lashes
[[bat-for-lashes]]Bat for Lashes is Natasha Khan, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and visual artist. The Haunted Man is her third release and the album sees her stripping away the theatrical influences of her early career. Gone are the wigs and tribal make-up as…
Dirtsong by The Black Arm Band Company
[[black-arm-band-rev]]This recording from the spectacular Black Arm Band production of Dirtsong, a 2009 restoration project for Indigenous dialects, features an outstanding array of indigenous singers and songwriters performing in 11 different languages. The line-up includes Archie Roach, Ruby Hunter…
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