Before We Met, by Lucie Whitehouse (Bloomsbury, RRP $35): With the short but not-so- sweet blurb on the back of this book telling us that Hannah Reilly had a perfectly happy life until the day her husband failed to come…
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Hilarity amid deluded need for bucket list
When Mr Dog Bites, by Brian Conaghan (Bloomsbury, RRP $29): Life for the average 16-year-old can be pretty tough, and for Dylan Mint, it is tougher than most. Dylan isn’t particularly average. In fact, he has Tourette’s and his life…
Quirky debut mixes drama, mystery to good effect
Terms and Conditions, by Robert Glancy (Bloomsbury, RRP $30): I’m not usually a fan of the books that insist on footnotes. I avoid them or make a slow decision about whether they are actually needed and what they could possibly…
Will we pay the price?
Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat, by Philip Lymbery with Isabel Oakeshott (Bloomsbury, RRP $37): It’s so easy to feel a disconnect between the vacuum packed offerings in the meat aisle at your local supermarket and the origins of that…
True midwife drama drawn from history
My Notorious Life by Madame X, by Kate Manning (Bloomsbury, RRP $35): My Notorious Life was inspired by the true story of 19th century New York midwife and abortionist Ann Trow Lohman, better known as Madame Restell; a woman once…
Celebrating the bond between man and dog
Dogs Make Us Human, by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Art Wolfe (Bloomsbury, RRP $50): Dogs have been getting some bad press lately, with a few wayward canines making headlines for all the wrong reasons. However, as the author of this…
When the cat’s away …
Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation and GPS Technology, by Caroline Paul, illustrated by Wendy MacNaughton (Bloomsbury, RRP $29) Author Caroline Paul has drawn on the real-life experience of having her moggy companion Tibula, also known as Tibby, go…
Great read … to start with
Trauma, by Patrick McGrath (Bloomsbury, RRP $37.99): I picked up this book and was riveted from the first page. Sadly, by the third chapter the momentum was slowing. By the fifth chapter, my get-up-and-go had got up and gone. I’d…