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Sky High by Germano Zullo & Albertine
[[sky-high-sm]]Sky High is for Iggy Peck Architect fans and for lovers of capricious and rather tall picture books. Two fanciful men try to outdo each other in their house building, and what house building it is! Grand, intricate and…
Boardwalk Empire: Season 2
Nucky’ Thompson (Steve Buscemi) is back, along with everyone left standing at the conclusion of the first season of this Prohibition-era gangster drama from HBO.
Bootlegging, malfeasance, poetic violence and those spruce Jazz-age threads again take centre frame in this…
Lawless by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
[[nick-cave]]After collaborating to produce the remarkable soundtracks to director John Hillcoat’s The Road and The Proposition, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have teamed up once again for Hillcoat’s latest, Lawless, a gangster film set during the United States…
Coexist by The XX
[[xx]]A band that frequently ends up on the Readings Carlton turntable during long sunny Sunday afternoons, the yearning alt-pop of The XX is almost a physical comfort.
Romy Madley Croft fills in all the quiet corners with her velvet-lined vocals…
The Carpenter by The Avett Brothers
[[avett-brothers]]After 2009’s wonderful I & Love & You, North Carolina’s Avett Brothers have once again joined forces with producer Rick Rubin for their new album The Carpenter.
The first single ‘Live & Die’ sets the tone for another…
Tom's Midnight Garden by Phillipa Pearce
A magical tale of friendship and adventure, Tom’s Midnight Garden was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1958 and has been read and loved ever since, which is remarkable when you consider how much the world of the child has changed…
Algiers by Calexico
[[calexico]]Joey Burns and John Convertino of Tucson Arizona’s alt-country band Calexico have played music together for over 20 years. Algiers is their first release in four years, as well as their first for The ANTI-label (home of Tom Waits, Mavis…
The Midnight Promise by Zane Lovitt
Private investigator and Melbournite John Dorn is down and out, surrounded by crooks and his own slowly disintegrating world. But John is determined, quietly honest, and smart enough to stand back and look at the reasons why crimes play out…
Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
[[chris-hitch]]Mortality is an edited collection of the articles that Christopher Hitchens wrote for Vanity Fair following his diagnosis with oesophageal cancer in 2010.
The author, journalist and critic was a central and controversial figure in contemporary culture, whose writing…
Alice Spring by Eleanor Hogan
This handsome book is the latest addition to New South’s justly successful series about Australian cities, focusing this time on the capital of ‘Centralia’, Alice Springs. Countless readers have relished the nostalgia invoked by these literary love letters, but Hogan’s…
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