Books featured in the Sydney Morning Herald
Mockingbird follow-up
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.
Thuy On A pot pourri of interesting books for crimesolvers, teenagers, keen sewers and kids.
Thuy On Read China Rich Girlfriend for the exuberant spectacle of zippy vintage cars, gossipy matriarchs-who-lunch and reckless profligacy and lots more.
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.
The Melbourne-born, London-based journalist, MC and music critic presents her pick of life-changing reads.
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
Jeff Popple Three great crime novel reviews with Jeff Popple.
Memoir excluded
MICHAEL LALLO He sold more books than almost everyone else on the bestseller list. But the New York Times smelled a rat.
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
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.
Gail Bell Giulia Enders' intriguing, often funny debut book opens the door to your gut from a truly professional and honest perspective.
Fiona Capp Short reviews of non-fiction by Anna Broinowski, Ghada Karmi, David Hill and Willie Nelson
Brian McFarlane Devotees of Steven Carroll have much to savour with the return of Michael.