Monday, July 13, 2015

Books featured in the Sydney Morning Herald

Mockingbird follow-up

Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee: first reviews

PETER VINCENT 5:25pm The first reviews of Go Set A Watchman, Harper Lee's unexpected follow-up to one of the 21 century's great novels, To Kill A Mockingbird are out. And they aren't pretty.

Book reviews: Justine Ford, Tegan Bennett Daylight, Violette Room, Pamela Allen

<i>Unsolved Australia</i> by Justine Ford. Thuy On A pot pourri of interesting books for crimesolvers, teenagers, keen sewers and kids.

China Rich Girlfriend maps a rarified social circle of serious affluence

Author Kevin Kwan continues the melodrama. Thuy On Read China Rich Girlfriend for the exuberant spectacle of zippy vintage cars, gossipy matriarchs-who-lunch and reckless profligacy and lots more.

The Whites book review: Richard Price, as Harry Brandt, nails gritty crime drama

Richard Price also wrote scripts for <I>The Wire</I> in its early days. Winsor Dobbin This may be more commercial, less literary, than anything Price has done before, but is also more accessible and more likely to sell to the masses.

Books that changed me: Jane Cornwell

Author Jane Cornwell.

The Melbourne-born, London-based journalist, MC and music critic presents her pick of life-changing reads.

Candace Bushnell's Killing Monica novel borrows from her own life

Candace Bushnell is most famous for writing <i>Sex and the City</i> in 1997. Celia Walden The creator of Sex and the City used her own life as inspiration for her eighth novel, about a writer who gets mistaken for her heroine character.

Book reviews

Take three reviews: Bull Mountain, The English Spy, Wicked Charms

Take Three dinkus Jeff Popple Three great crime novel reviews with Jeff Popple.

Memoir excluded

Ted Cruz furious after rejection from NY Times bestseller list: 'Release your so-called evidence'

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz. MICHAEL LALLO He sold more books than almost everyone else on the bestseller list. But the New York Times smelled a rat.

Across the Seas review: Klaus Neumann looks for a clue to future refugee policy

<i></i> Richard Ferguson 'Across the Seas: Australia's Response to Refugees' is Klaus Neumann's attempt to untangle the refugee question about which everyone appears to have an opinion but which continues to bamboozle our politicians.

Review

Grey review: Feeble sex scenes and poor writing mark the return of E. L. James

<i>Grey</i> by E.L. James.
Christine Cremen E.L. James still can't write. If there was any blue pencilling done to Grey, the fourth in the Fifty Shades of Grey series, before publication, it wasn't taken far enough. We're still treated to prose so purple that it is of a positively Tyrian hue.

Gut review: Our underrated digestive system and its ultimate role as a disposal unit

Illustration: Simon Letch. Gail Bell Giulia Enders' intriguing, often funny debut book opens the door to your gut from a truly professional and honest perspective.

Reviews of non-fiction: Anna Broinowski, Ghada Karmi, David Hill & Willie Nelson

Fiona Capp Short reviews of non-fiction by Anna Broinowski, Ghada Karmi, David Hill and Willie Nelson

Forever Young review: Steven Carroll's richly but delicately textured novel

<i></i> Brian McFarlane Devotees of Steven Carroll have much to savour with the return of Michael.

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