Tag: australia
member name: Magdalena Ball
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July 15, 2008 07:39 PM EDT --
Swimming with Crocodiles:
An Australian Adventure
By Will Chaffey
Picador (Pan Macmillan)
ISBN 9781405038423, Trade Paper, May 2008, $32.95, 320 pages
Swimming with Crocodiles is an . . .
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June 04, 2009 05:43 PM EDT --
Breath By Tim Winton Penguin 29 April 2009, ISBN: 9780143009580, RRP: $24.95, Paperback , 268 pages
One of the hallmarks of Tim Winton’s work is the way he seems to achieve a sparse poetic . . .
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August 28, 2007 09:19 PM EDT --
Reviewed by Magdalena Ball
Another
by Joel Deane
Interactive Press
www.ipoz.biz/titles/another.htm
ISBN 1876819251, 2006 (second printing), 224pages, paperback, AU$27
Like its striking cover, . . .
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June 24, 2009 07:32 PM EDT --
Sold By Brendan Gullifer Sleepers Publishing Paperback, 357 pages, ISBN: 9781740667340, April 2009, RRP: $24.95
In his launch speech for Sold , author Brendan Gullifer says that his book is about . . .
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July 04, 2009 05:47 PM EDT --
The Darwin Poems By Emily Ballou UWA Press Paperback, ISBN 9781921401275, May 2009, $24.95aud
Though structured and presented as a kind of biography, The Darwin Poems isn’t really a biography . . .
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February 04, 2009 04:12 PM EST --
Ambulances & Dreamers
by B el Schenk
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781862548183, RRP $19.95, November 2008, PB 96
There’s a funky youthful quality to . . .
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May 10, 2009 10:14 PM EDT --
Valley of Grace
by Marion Halligan
Allen & Unwin
ISBN:9781741756944, 247 p, Trade paper, March 2009, RRP $29.95
Like it’s delicate burnished cover, Valley of Grace has . . .
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August 17, 2008 12:15 AM EDT --
The Steele Diaries
By Wendy James
Vintage Books (Random House)
361 pp, Paperback, ISBN: 9781740513845, RRP: $32.95, May 2008
There’s something powerful about the diary as a narrative . . .
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December 28, 2008 02:50 PM EST --
Magellenica
By Justin Lowe
Bluepepper
ISBN:9781409204862, Hardback, 292 pages, Download: $5.00, Hardcover Print: $39.99
The verse novel is a tricky form to master. It requires combining . . .
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November 14, 2007 07:39 PM EST --
Lon g Afternoon of the World
by Graeme Kinross-Smith
Wakefield Press
http://www.wakefieldpress.com.au/books/longafternoonoftheworld.html
July 2007, Paperback, 368 PP, ISBN 9781862547377, . . .
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December 04, 2007 07:22 PM EST --
Aphelion
By Emily Ballou
Available at Picador - Pan Macmillan Australia
ISBN: 9780330423120 , Softcover, 503pp, $32.95
There’s a dreamy richness underscoring Emily Ballou’s . . .
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December 11, 2007 09:19 PM EST --
In the City
By Roland Harvey
Allen & Unwin
Harcover, 24.95, ISBN 9781741144130, November 2007
Australian Roland Harvey’s “In the…” books are . . .
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June 09, 2008 10:05 PM EDT --
Reviewed by Magdalena Ball
Sunny Side Up
By Marion Roberts
Allen & Unwin
Paperback, 252pages, ISBN: 9781741752366, $15.95aud
I tend not to read books that fall into genre categories, . . .
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January 14, 2009 05:35 PM EST --
Ice
By Louis Nowra
Allen & Unwin
Paperback, ISBN: 9781741754834, Nov 2008, 336pgs
Occasionally, during the reading of Ice you’ll need to pause and run a cool piece of ice across your . . .
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