There But For The by Ali Smith
There But For The Ali Smith, Hamish Hamilton ($26) CHECK OUT THE Bfm REVIEW WITH LILY RICHARDS BY CLICKING HERE Or check out the Guardian review here. Or BUY IT…
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A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
A Visit From the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan, Corsair ($25) Check out this great review from The Guardian as reviewed by Sarah Churchwell: The title of Jennifer Egan’s new novel…
Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything Joshua Foer, Allen & Unwin ($30) How to Memorize Everything, a review by Alexandra Horowitz of the New York Times:…
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
Lunar Park Bret Easton Ellis, Picador ($30) Bret Easton Ellis’s latest novel, Lunar Park, is a tour de force of narcissism, says Adam Mars-Jones – taken from The Observer: Bret…
Amexica by Ed Vulliamy
Amexica Ed Vulliamy, Vintage ($30) “As dawn broke over the vast desert, the body was still hanging beneath the overpass, having been suspended from it – decapitated and dangling by…
At the Mountains of Madness by HP Lovecraft
If you don’t know about Lovecraft’s genre of Cosmic Horror then here is an unfairly-short three-sentence synopsis. Having been witness to the atrocities and senselessness of World War One, atrocities…
Crossers by Philip Caputo
Crossers Philip Caputo, Vintage ($33) Crossers is, initially, about a man, Gil Castle, who loses everything he loves in the wake of a terrorist plot so picturesque it will forever…
Their Faces Are Shining by Tim Wilson
Their Faces Are Shining Tim Wilson, Victoria University Press ($30) When Hope Paterson plunges into a construction hole at her local mall and saves a child from drowning, she believes…
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts Simon Garfield, Profile Books ($30) An engaging Bill Bryson-esque history on everything from the Guardian’s April Fool’s day hoax on the islands of…
The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
The Killer Inside Me Jim Thompson, Black Lizard Vintage ($29) Hopefully the controversy surrounding Michael Winterbottom’s recent film adaptation has provoked readers to investigate the source material. Stanley Kubrick worked…
