BIOGRAPHY: From Ethiopia to Sierra Leone, Tanzania to Togo, Dr Andrew Browning has been helping women affected by obstetric fistulas - a debilitating condition resulting from obstructed childbirth - for nearly two decades.
The Glam Adelaide Book Review Team pick their favourite reads of 2021!
HISTORICAL FICTION: From the bestselling author of The Librarian of Auschwitz comes another epic historical novel translated by Lilit Žekulin Thwaites and based on a true story – the extraordinary life and mysterious death of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of The Little Prince.
HISTORY: Innovation brings Peter Ackroyd’s History of England to a triumphant close.
SOCIETY: As authoritative as the Macquarie Dictionary and as exhaustive as a Fortitude Valley pub crawl, Betoota-isms is your one-stop guide to the grandeur of the great Australian vernacular.
THRILLER: The gripping final instalment in the FBI special agent Atlee Pine series by internationally bestselling author David Baldacci.
SELF-HELP: Clinical psychologist Dr Rebecca Ray shows how boundaries are the key to many of the emotional and practical difficulties we encounter in daily life.
MIDDLE GRADE: Twelve-year-old Tunde is just your average kid: average friends, average parents, average grades. But his life is about to get turned upside down when, in the middle of a football match, Tunde leaps for the ball and stays in the air – on an enormous pair of wings!
YA THRILLER: Two girls go backpacking in the woods. And then things go very wrong.
JUNIOR FICTION: Fizzing with magic, danger, friendship and art, this exciting, fun, middle-grade debut is from the bestselling creative genius behind #DrawWithRob.
In Feast, Miguel shares his absolute favourite recipes to enjoy with family and friends. There are big, satisfying dinners as well as lots of smaller dishes to mix and match in classic share-plate style.
LITERARY STUDIES: Colm Tóibín captures the profound personal conflict of the very public life of Thomas Mann, and through this life creates an intimate portrait of the twentieth century.
We sat down with Lakesedge Lyndall Clistone to talk writing inspirations, the author’s journey, and the YA scene in Adelaide.
BUSINESS: Written with humour, insight and a serving of tough love, The New Hustle is your go-to for more productive, creative and meaningful work by one of Australia's most unconventional and effective entrepreneurs: a bestselling author, mum of six - and a woman determined to start an anti-hustle revolution.
YOUNG ADULT: When Violeta Graceling arrives at haunted Lakesedge estate, she expects to find a monster. She knows the terrifying rumours about Rowan Sylvanan, who drowned his entire family when he was a boy. But neither the estate nor the monster are what they seem.
We interview the remarkable Phillip Maisel about his book 'The Keeper of Miracles' and his experiences during and after the Holocaust.
BIOGRAPHY: For more than 30 years, Phillip Maisel has worked selflessly to record the harrowing stories of Holocaust survivors. But, for Phillip, confronting and overcoming trauma is also personal. A Holocaust survivor himself, he too has unthinkable stories of triumph and tragedy, cruelty and hope.
CONTEMPORARY: Will losing her dad be the thing that finally prompts Annie Stanley to find herself? Only she could decide to say goodbye by stealing her father’s ashes and taking him on one last adventure . . .
CONTEMPORARY: Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami's novel is told in the voice of a fourteen-year-old student subjected to relentless torment for having a lazy eye.The only person who understands what he is going through is a female classmate who suffers similar treatment.
THRILLER: Evoking the golden age of crime and for fans of Raymond Chandler and Agatha Christie, comes A Gambling Man from one of the world's bestselling thriller writers, David Baldacci.