David Sedaris’ Greek grandmother was a leviathan litterer. The woman would throw anything out a car window. The important thing for her wasn’t a clean outside but a clean inside. “Look at the sky, littered with clouds, or the beach …
ME & RORY MACBEATH (Hachette) by Richard Beasley is reminiscent of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. Twelve year old Jake Taylor lives with his single parent barrister mum, Harriet, in a street in suburban Adelaide. It’s the street that houses …
At Versailles, on the eve of the French Revolution, a mosquito squadron chooses who will lay feast to their blood lust. And the winner is……………. Sidonie.
Meanwhile, in Paris a swarm of another kind is bloodletting. When news of the …
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It’s not rocket science to sense that THE ROCKET may well be the best Australian film of the year.
Set in the rarely seen tribal mountains of Laos, THE ROCKET is a gripping yarn of a young boy triumphing …
Can one eavesdrop on written correspondence? If the author’s voice is strong and distinctive, of course one can. The very letters on the page are signs, images of sounds.
Such are the letters collected in HERE & NOW a joint …
To the bookstore, walk on, buy. Fans wishin’ and hopin’ that Burt Bacharach’s autobiography, ANYONE WHO HAD A HEART (Atlantic Books), would be as memorable as his tunes won’t be disappointed.
The story of his life is a real “what’s …
In the late ‘60s, a
minstrel to rival Dylan, going by the one word moniker, Rodriguez, was discovered in a Detroit bar by two celebrated producers, who were struck by his soulful melodies and prophetic lyrics. They quickly recorded an …
The French film industry just before WWI is the setting of Beatrice Hitchman’s delicious debut novel, PETITE MORT (Serpent’s Tail).
Essentially, it is the back story of a mystery, the sinister incineration of a movie studio in which a recently …
