***** (5 stars - an exceptional book of the very highest quality, regardless of genre as per Bookseller+Publisher ratings system)
Published by Scribe, $59.5, hb, ISBN 9781921640377
This engrossing biography which unfolds against the backdrop of the history of The Age, journalism and media ownership, pays tribute to Graham Perkin, an extraordinarily talented man widely regarded as [...]
****1/2 stars (4 is an exceptional book as per Bookseller+Publisher ratings system)
Published by Black Inc, $24.95 pb, ISBN 9781863954792
Don’t be confused but Pierre Ryckmans, whose pen-name is Simon Leys (The Death of Napoleon, The Wreck of the Batavia), has written about 19th century novelist Henri Beyle, whose pen-name was Stendhal. Stendhal was such a [...]
*** (three stars - good book, within its genre as per Bookseller+Publisher ratings system)
Published by UQP, $32.95 pb ISBN 9780702237751
This is not your average pregnancy/birth memoir; it is an unusual story of surrogate motherhood, of giving the ultimate gift—a child. Sue Phillips, married with three children was approaching the age of 40 when she decided [...]
**** (four stars - an excellent book as per Bookseller+Publisher ratings system)
Published by Miscellaneous Press, $19.95 pb, ISBN: 9780646522005
Some would not agree that some of the best writing appears in blogs. Editor Karen Andrews throws down the gauntlet by introducing her anthology as “an experiment to see how this writing, these writers, stand up to [...]
*** (three stars – a good book as per Bookseller+Publisher ratings system)
Published by Transit Lounge, $29.95 tpb, ISBN 9780980571738, April
Welcome to Oatlands, Tasmania, home of the femme-werewolf apocalypse. Sixteen-year-old Sally Hunter is seriously pissed off and she’s turning into a powerful ‘monster dog’, a werewolf with one hell of an appetite for flesh — [...]
