Allen & Unwin
Three new fantasy novels by Alison Croggon, Alison Evan, and Astrid Scholte
by Margaret Robson Kett •
This month’s survey features three bewitching novels from authors intent on transporting younger readers to other worlds. In Alison Croggon’s latest fantasy novel, The Threads of Magic (Walker Books, $19.95 pb, 380 pp), Pip and his sister El are living in a poor but snug apartment in the city of Clarel, bequeathed to them by Missus Pledge. Pip, always on the lookout for opportunities, scoops up a silver box from the sidelines during a street brawl. The opening of this box burdens Pip with an ancient and grisly relic: the shrivelled black heart of a child.
... (read more)She I Dare Not Name: A spinster’s meditations on life by Donna Ward
by Jacqueline Kent •
Truganini: Journey through the apocalypse by Cassandra Pybus
by Billy Griffiths •
The Australian Musical from the Beginning by Peter Pinne and Peter Wyllie Johnston
by Gillian Wills •
Flight Lines: Across the globe on a journey with the astonishing ultramarathon birds by Andrew Darby
by Andrew Fuhrmann •
See You at the Toxteth by Peter Corris, selected by Jean Bedford & The Red Hand by Peter Temple
by Chris Flynn •