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Confetti: Little Birdy
Perth band Little Birdy’s new album Confetti has been 12 months in the making. What they have achieved is a tight group of well-written pop songs with infectious beats and smart lyrics. Katy Steele’s vocals range from soulful to driving…
Scruffy Old Cat: Kyle Mewburn
Scruffy Old Cat is a really great book because it’s funny and cute and I didn’t want it to end.Lily thought that the cat Sardine was really ugly and disgusting, but she ended up loving him so much that she…
The Book from Baden Dark: James Moloney
This book is about a half-human half-elf, a sorcerer and his cousin who go on an adventure into Baden Dark to save the leader of the elf tribe. But what danger awaits them?
The best thing about this book is…
Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009
‘Altermodern’ is a new term, coined by Nicolas Bourriad, to describe a discernible, insistent sensibility that has emerged in contemporary art in Britain, in tandem with recent social and cultural change across the world.
Bourriad, as curator, took two elements…
Brotherhood: Stories Of Courage And Resilience
The Brotherhood of St Laurence (BSL) has been working on behalf of disadvantaged people – providing care, support and advocacy – for over 75 years. In this heart-warming book, Father Jeff O’Hare introduces us to a range of people who…
The Music Room: William Fiennes
Childhood for William Fiennes was magical, growing up in a medieval castle surrounded by a moat and fields. Life was interrupted each week by open days when the public traipsed through the castle with young William and his brother acting…
The Way Home: George Pelecanos
Pelecanos was a writer for the stuff-white-people-like drama The Wire, a fact the publishers hammer home by using an eerily similar graphic design style to the one used to promote the show. Beyond this lies the well-crafted, slow-build story…
A Deadly Trade: Michael Stanley
The mutilated body of the inappropriately named Goodluck Tinubu is found dead in his tent at a tourist campsite, with the body of another visitor found not long after. As if these murders weren’t problematic enough for Detectives Kubu and…
The Scarecrow: Michael Connelly
For this, his twenty-first novel, Connelly resurrects Jack McEvoy, the protagonist of his 1996 Dilys Award winning The Poet.
McEvoy’s glory days as a crime reporter are coming to a demeaning end – not only has he been retrenched…
In Hovering Flight: Joyce Hinnefeld
Scarlet Kavanagh has returned from New York to Pennsylvania to see her mother Addie die painfully from cancer and to help her father bury his environmental evangelist wife secretly and illegally. Addie and Tom are two academics who are inspired…
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