God Bless America: Misadventures of a Big Mouth Brit, by Piers Morgan (Random House, RRP $39.99): We all love to hate a villain and Piers Morgan has presented American TV viewers with a prime example of lovable small-screen rogue. Morgan…
Category: General non-fiction
Fun read from the man with a dream job
Don’t Stop Me Now, by Jeremy Clarkson (Penguin, RRP $30): Jeremy Clarkson is a bloke who is probably the envy of every other bloke out there (and a lot of bloke-esses, too, I would imagine): he gets to drive around in…
Good value for giggles
World’s Weirdest Obsessions, by Matt Roper (Penguin, RRP $14.95): We all have obsessions: for some of us it’s the quite sensible compulsion to buy designer handbags, for others it’s collecting stamps or not stepping on cracks on the footpath. This…
Readable but not brilliant
Tell Me Why, Mummy, by David Thomas (Harper Element): The back cover of the book describes it as “a heartbreaking story of abuse, betrayal and ultimate redemption” but I think it’s fair to say that any tale of abuse of…
Killers at Large
Killers at Large, by Nigel Cawthorne (Constable & Robinson, RRP $29.99): The proliferation of cop shows on television makes it clear that we have a fascination with solving mysteries. However, in real life, sometimes the mystery is never solved and the…
Brilliant telling of Beaconsfield story
Bad Ground: Inside the Beaconsfield Mine Rescue, by Tony Wright (HarperCollins, $36.99): When the earth moved in the Tasmanian mining town of Beaconsfield on Anzac Day last year, trapping three miners underground, it had a profound impact on everyone in…
Industry out of control
The Truth About the Drug Companies, by Marcia Angell, MD (Macmillan, $30): The current state of the drug industry in the United States is being viewed as the potential future for those of us in Australasia. In the US, the public…
Dyer offers a fresh outlook
Future Tense The Coming World Order, by Gwynne Dyer (Scribe, $32): Freelance journalist-columnist Gwynne Dyer has a knack of taking complex, controversial stories and offering a fresh view. From the Middle East to Afghanistan, Dyer has a depth of understanding…
Unexpectedly fun read
The Accidental Renovator, by Barbara Biggs (Sly Ink, $29.95): Aussie author Barbara Biggs continues to recount the story of her life in this latest book. While she had a truly awful start to life, being sold to a paedophile at…
Take me to your leader
Who Really Runs the World? by Thom Burnett and Alex Games (HarperCollins, $19.99): Here’s a nice juicy read for all the conspiracy theorists out there. Journalist Alex Games has co-authored this little gem with Thom Burnett, which is apparently a…