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Love Machine: Clinton Caward
Spencer’s grand plan is to make a film. Not just any kind of film, but a film starring blow-up dolls of all shapes and sizes. You see, Spencer’s skewed reality is planted firmly in the bowels of an underground sex…
Once On A Road: Mary Ellen Mullane
For Zoe Zalum, a has-been artist and reformed drug addict, it’s been an eight-year sabbatical from motherhood. But she returns on the day of her father-in-law’s funeral and she wants her boys. Chris and Max, however, have only known two…
My Country: Dorothea MacKellar and Andrew McLean
One of Australia’s best-loved poems is brought to life with evocative and haunting watercolours. McLean’s pictures capture our hugely contrasting seasons and landscapes just as magically as Mackellar’s words do.
Every Australian child should know this poem and this lovely…
And Picasso Painted Guernica: Alain Serres
And Picasso Painted Guernica is a fascinating account of Picasso’s life and career, with a particular focus on the painting of Guernica, Picasso’s response to the bombing of the Basque town during the Spanish Civil War.
Author Alain Serres…
Heist Society: Ally Carter
Are you in or out? Katarina Bishop wants to leave the family business, but that’s not easy when your family is a gang of exclusive, world-class thieves. However, when a particularly nasty mobster threatens her father, Kat and her young…
Booker's Guitar: Eric Bibb
One of the pre-eminent modern interpreters of the traditional country blues tradition, Eric Bibb here presents a suite of songs inspired by, and in part performed on, a steel National Resophonic guitar that belonged to Delta blues great Booker/Bukka White…
Balm In Gilead: Rickie Lee Jones
Now in her fourth decade as a recording artist, Rickie Lee Jones has always followed her muse and refused to be pigeon-holed into a particular music genre. She has delivered one of the finest albums of her career with Balm…
IRM: Charlotte Gainsbourg
For her new album, Charlotte Gainsbourg has enlisted the producing talents of singer/songwriter Beck, resulting in an unusual and very affecting set of songs. The sound here is quite different from her previous effort, 5.55, which seemed at times…
I And Love And You: The Avett Brothers
‘One of the biggest grass-roots success stories of the decade,’ says Pitchfork.
The Avett Brothers look set to take off in Australia in a big way. Coming across as an Americana (roots) band with a touch of Ben Folds (lots…
Orchestrionics: Pat Metheny
A leap into new territory for Metheny, this project merges a musical idea from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries – a large mechanical multi-instrument device that imitates the sound of an orchestra, called an ‘orchestrion’ – with the…
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