FINDERS KEEPERS: Part Two Of The Detective Bill Hodges (Intended) Trilogy by...
Stephen King (Hodder And Stoughton) 2015, 370pp, RRP $32.99 The second part of an intended trilogy featuring retired Detective Bill Hodges (the first was King’s Mr. Mercedes, published last year), this...
View ArticleSHAKESPEARE: IDEAS IN PROFILE… Paul Edmondson’s Study Of Why Shakespeare...
Paul Edmondson (Profile) 2015, 186pp, RRP $19.99 Edmondson, a prolific Shakespeare author and know-all, contributes to the ‘Ideas In Profile’ series with this very accessible study of why Shakespeare...
View ArticleTHE WAITING ROOM: The Compelling Debut Novel From Author Leah Kaminsky – Book...
Leah Kaminsky (Random House) 2015, 286pp, RRP $32.99 Dina is the Australian-raised daughter of Jews displaced by World War II. She has married an Israeli man and is living in the melting-pot Israeli...
View ArticleLOVE + HATE: STORIES AND ESSAYS by Hanif Kureishi – Book Review
Hanif Kureishi (Faber), 2015, 219pp, RRP $27.99 The unreliable Kureishi’s latest combines short stories, odd essays on pet subjects and autobiographical pieces on sometimes minor topics, and they’re a...
View ArticleCLUETOPIA: THE STORY OF 100 YEARS OF THE CROSSWORD by David Astle – Book Review
David Astle (Allen & Unwin) 2015, 308pp, RRP $22.99 Astle, legendary crossword setter for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age and an author of several books on wordplay themes (no less than...
View ArticleLINDT CHOCOLATE BAR: THE BEST EVER RECIPES – Book Review
“by Lindt” (Quarto Group UK) 2015, 54pp, RRP $16.99 Seemingly designed and penned by Lindt types, this attractive, Lindt-block-shaped cookbook has much to tempt the chocolate obsessive, provided they...
View ArticleBOB DYLAN: DISC BY DISC – An Illustrated Discography From Zimmerman’s...
Jon Bream (Voyageur Press) 2015, 240pp, RRP $39.99 Bream’s beautiful tome attempts to encompass Dylan’s vast body of often variable work, from 1962’s Bob Dylan to 2015’s inexplicable Shadows In The...
View ArticleUS CONDUCTORS: Letters To His One True Love, Clara, From Inventor Of The...
Sean Michaels (Bloomsbury) 2015, 347pp, RRP $19.99 Leon Termen is a scientific genius. Among many other things, he invented the Theremin, a musical instrument unlike any other. In the 1920s he leaves...
View ArticleA FORTUNATE AGE: Young New York Artists Search For Meaning In The Months...
Joanna Rakoff (Bloomsbury) 2015, 503pp, RRP $32.99 Joanna Rakoff was a popular speaker at the 2015 Adelaide Writers’ Week, where she spoke about her excellent memoir, My Salinger Year. Subsequent to...
View ArticleLATEST READINGS: A Collection Of Essays From Author/Broadcaster/Journalist...
Clive James (Footprint), 2015, 180pp, RRP $29.95 Author/critic/memoirist/broadcaster/journalist/translator/you name it James’ latest and perhaps last tome is a collection of essays drawn from his...
View ArticleSTUFF BRITS LIKE: A GUIDE TO WHAT’S GREAT ABOUT GREAT BRITAIN by Fraser...
Fraser McAlpine (Nicholas Brealey) 2015, 360pp, RRP $22.99 The Oxfordshire-born and Cornwall-dwelling McAlpine, the lead writer for BBC Anglophenia (and a specialist in Doctor Who), here offers a...
View ArticleTHE HOLLOW OF THE HAND: Pictures And Words In The Turmoil Of Our Time – Book...
PJ Harvey and Seamus Murphy (Bloomsbury) 2015, 231pp, RRP $85.00 Kosovo. Afghanistan. Washington DC. Singer, songwriter and poet PJ Harvey and photographer and filmmaker Seamus Murphy visited these...
View ArticleTHE CINEMA OF CHRISTOPHER NOLAN: IMAGINING THE IMPOSSIBLE – Book Review
Edited by Jacqueline Furby and Stuart Joy (Footprint) 2015, 274pp, RRP $57.95 Furby and Joy’s academic tome is intended to delve into the myriad mysteries that run throughout the films of London-born...
View ArticleGILLIAMESQUE: A PRE-POSTHUMOUS MEMOIR – The Life Of “Python”– Book Review
Terry Gilliam and Ben Thompson (Canongate) 2015, 297pp, RRP $59.99 The five surviving members of Monty Python are all in their mid-70s now, and Gilliam (the animator, only American and most rarely-seen...
View ArticleThe Heart Goes Last: A Social Experiment With A Sinister Twist – Book Review
Margaret Atwood (Bloomsbury) 2015, 306pp, RRP $32.99 In The Heart Goes Last, Margaret Atwood has conceived of a most dire and fantastical world in which economic collapse in the United States has led...
View ArticleAn Interview With Andrew P. Street, Author Of The Short And Excruciatingly...
by Dave Bradley. The Adelaide-bred Andrew P. Street, a Fairfax columnist and now first-time-author, took the time to talk with The Clothesline about his book with that wonderfully long title, and the...
View ArticleTRUTHS, HALF TRUTHS & LITTLE WHITE LIES: A MEMOIR By Nick Frost – Book Review
Nick Frost (Hachette Australia) 2015, 314pp, $32.99 Originally, it seems, written by Frost under the unbowdlerised title Truths, Half Truths And Utter Bullshit, this memoir by the 40something Nick (and...
View ArticleSlade House: Chilling And Inventive, The Familiar David Mitchell Universe...
David Mitchell (Hachette) 2015, 233pp, Hardback RRP $27.99 Fans of David Mitchell will be thrilled to know that Slade House occupies the same bizarre world as his other acclaimed novels The Bone Clocks...
View ArticleA GAME FOR ALL THE FAMILY: Secrets Kept So Dangerously Close To Home – Book...
Sophie Hannah (Hachette Australia) 2015, 419pp, RRP $29.99 Hannah, a popular author of psychodramatic thrillers, here spins a surprisingly epic tale of very English domestic/suburban mystery and...
View ArticleCOBAIN: MONTAGE OF HECK – Lamenting The Loss Of A Great Mucisian And...
Brett Morgen With Richard Bienstock (Hachette Australia) 2015, 157pp, RRP $39.99 Writer, director, producer and editor Morgen’s book ties in with his movie, Cobain: Montage Of Heck, one of two...
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