All posts tagged "Wakefield Press"
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682Books & LiteratureBook Review: What Have the French Ever Done For Us? Edited by John West-Sooby
COLLECTION: What have the French done for the cultural life of Australia, and more globally? That is the question addressed by the essays in this volume, penned by eminent experts in their fields.
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667Books & LiteratureBook Review: Little Bit, by Heather Taylor-Johnson
LITERARY FICTION: art memoir, part biography, part imagination, Little Bit is a story with a third side. Told in the alternating perspectives of Debbie and Stella, Heather writes the story of her mother's and grandmother's lives, where addiction is rife and regret is a constant, and where survival for a woman in a man's world is anything but straightforward.
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678Books & LiteratureBook Review: Art Made Public, by Marijana Tadic, Miroslav Micanovic, & Marie Falcinella
ART: Art Made Public celebrates Marijana Tadic, whose work has significantly impacted urban landscapes across Adelaide, South Australia, and surrounding regions.
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514Books & LiteratureBook Review: Default Depression, by Anthony Smith
NON-FICTION: Default Depression builds a compelling case for an extensive shift in how we support people in psychological and emotional distress - away from the damaging tendency to medicalise and medicate, towards a more nuanced and evidence-based approach.
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836Books & LiteratureBook Review: Sea Change, by Jim Blake
NON-FICTION: Adelaide's coastal settlements have undergone mighty changes over the last 186 years. Using rare photographs, including many from the 19th century, Sea Change showcases the history of these favourite places, including Glenelg, Brighton, Seacliff and more, that now make up the City of Holdfast Bay.
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1.5KBooks & LiteratureThe Best Books Of 2022 (as chosen by the Glam Adelaide Books Team)
The verdict is in. Here are our favourite fiction and non-fiction books of 2022!
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844Books & LiteratureBook Review: Roaming Freely Throughout the Universe, edited by Jean Fornasiero and John West-Sooby
HISTORY: Drawing on a range of archival sources, the essays presented here offer fresh perspectives on Nicolas Baudin's voyage of discovery to Australia.
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848Books & LiteratureBook Review: That Thing I Did, by Allayne L. Webster
YOUNG ADULT: Five misfits hit the road in a haunted hearse, on a madcap road-trip from their prison-bordering suburb behind the 'Mullet-Proof Fence' to small-town Mount Gambier.
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1.5KBooks & LiteratureAuthor Interview: Netball star Maddy Proud chats about her book Grace back on Court
Former Adelaide Thunderbird Maddy Proud talks about juggling netball and writing, ideas for future novels and her love of One Direction.
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1.2KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Grace back on Court, by Maddy Proud
YOUNG ADULT: Grace back on Court is the second book in netballer Maddy Proud's Grace series but can be read as a stand-alone novel.
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862Books & LiteratureBook Review: Dancing Before Storms, by Robert T. Harris
HISTORY: These five revolutions shaped the power structures of our modern world. Each time, the elites of the day ignored the warning signs. Each time they continued 'dancing before storms'.
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1.5KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Hometown Haunts, edited by Poppy Nwosu
YA HORROR: This #LoveOzYA anthology - the first to focus entirely on horror - unites a stellar cast of Australia's finest YA authors with talented new and emerging voices, including two graphic artists.
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1.6KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Death of Dr Duncan, by Tim Reeves
NON-FICTION: This meticulously researched and tautly written book tells a story that is disturbing yet captivating, distressing yet ultimately uplifting.
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754Books & LiteratureBook Review: Vice-Regal, by Philip Payton
HISTORY: Historian Philip Payton charts the evolution of the vice-regal role from foundation in 1836 to the present day, setting the development of this distinguished office against the backdrop of the State's often dramatic history.
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1.8KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Port Adelaide, by John Couper-Smartt
HISTORY: This much-anticipated new edition of the definitive history of Port Adelaide (first published in 2003, long out of print), boasts a wealth of new material and images - and a stunning new design.
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1.0KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Margaret Flockton, by Louise Wilson
BIOGRAPHY: With hundreds of full-colour illustrations, including many of her beautiful plates, this biography captures the essence of a remarkable woman, illustrating a life of deeds, not words.
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857Books & LiteratureBook Review: Bee-stung Lips, by Nic Brown, Jacqueline Milner and Elspeth Pitt
NON-FICTION: Bee-stung Lips reproduces more than 100 of Barbara Hanrahan's works on paper, while new essays by Nic Brown, Jacqueline Millner and Elspeth Pitt delve into the artist's themes, motivations and motifs.
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1.5KFilm & TVLocal Film-makers Wayne Groom and Carolyn Bilsborow Chat about their New Film
Film-makers Wayne Groom and Dr Carolyn Bilsborow chat about their latest film The World at Her Feet, about renowned performer Marjorie Lawrence.
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1.0KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Too Much Cabbage and Jesus Christ, by Catherine Bishop
BIOGRAPHY: Annie Lock believed Aboriginal lives mattered, with controversial results. This biography dives into massacres, stolen generations and the thorny problem of Aboriginal missions.
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802Books & LiteratureBook Review: Road Tripping with Pearl Nash, by Poppy Nwosu
YA: The summer is finally here, and Pearl Nash is on a mission to save her slowly disintegrating friendship with a whirlwind end-of-year road trip that is definitely, absolutely, most positively going to solve all her problems.
