Book Reviews by Genre/Author



Biography/Film or Music-Related 
The PR Strikes Back by Keith Altham
Starring Michael Caine by David Bishop
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskend 
Wild Swans by Jung Chang 
Which Lie Did I Tell? by William Goldman
With Nails by Richard E. Grant
Brushing the Tip of Fame by Nicholas Hope
Admit One by Emmett James
Lord of Misrule by Christopher Lee
Excelsior: The Amazing Life of Stan Lee by Stan Lee and George Mair
Lolly Scramble by Tony Martin
The Dirt by Motley Crue
John Wayne: The Man Behind the Myth by Michael Munn
Alec Guinness by Piers Paul Read
McQueen by Christopher Sandford
The Virgin Film Guide to the Lord of the Rings by Jim Smith and J. Clive Matthews
Brando by Robert Tanitch
Charles Bronson Superstar by Steven Whitney




Business/Politics
DisneyWar by James B. Stewart
The Reluctant Republic by Malcoln Turnbull




Classics
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Playing Beatie Bow by Ruth Park
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger


Comedy/Humour
Blast from the Past by Ben Elton 
High Society by Ben Elton 
FHM Bar-Room Jokes by FHM
Men Behaving Badly by Simon Nye
Can I Ask You a Personal Question? by Jonny Steele




Crime/Mystery
The Ipcress File by Len Deighton
Dead Famous by Ben Elton
The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John Le Carre
Sucker Punch by Marc Strange
The Grifters by Jim Thompson





Fantasy 
Shardik by Richard Adams 
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Foundling by D. M. Cornish
Lamplighter by D. M. Cornish
Factotum by D. M. Cornish
The Spook's Apprentice by Joseph Delaney 
The Spook's Curse by Joseph Delaney 
The Spook's Secret by Joseph Delaney
The Borribles by Michael de Larrabeiti
The Borribles Go for Broke by Michael de Larrabeiti 
Across the Dark Metropolis by Michael de Larrabeiti
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde 
American Gods by Neil Gaiman 
Grendel by John Gardner 
Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn
Grass For His Pillow by Lian Hearn 
Brilliance of the Moon by Lian Hearn
The Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
The Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb
Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobb
The Iron Man by Ted Hughes
The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis 
Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis
The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis
The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis
Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake 
Truckers by Terry Pratchett
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve 
Predator's Gold by Philip Reeve
Infernal Devices by Philip Reeve
A Darkling Plain by Philip Reeve
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling 
The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud 
The Golem's Eye by Jonathan Stroud
Ptolemy's Gate by Jonathan Stroud
The Year of Our War by Steph Swainston




Historical/Travel
Turtle Island by Sergio Ghione
A Voyage Long and Strange by Tony Horwitz
Secret Histories: Finding George Orwell in a Burmese Tea Shop by Emma Larkin
Micronations by Lonely Planet
Outposts by Simon Winchester





Literature
Eucalyptus by Murray Bail 
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
The Commitments by Roddy Doyle
The Snapper by Roddy Doyle
The Van by Roddy Doyle
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon 
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Underground by Andrew McGahan
Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dah Sijie
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
Loaded by Christos Tsiolkas




Nature/Science
A Gap in Nature by Tim Flannery and Peter Schouten
Field Guide to Australian Mammals by Oxford





Plays
The Removalists by David Williamson



Picture Books
Where the Forest Meets the Sea by Jeannie Baker  




Science Fiction
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Fade to Blue by Sean Beaudoin
The Infinitive of Go by John Brunner 
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Incompetnce by Rob Grant
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Red Dwarf - Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers by Grant Naylor
Automated Alice by Jeff Noon
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut


Teen Fiction
Danny, the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
Taronga by Victor Kelleher
Tomorrow When the War Began by John Marsden
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
The Youngest Templar by Michael P. Spradlin




True Crime
Odd Man Out by Ronnie Biggs
The Holy Thief by Rabbi Mark Borovitz 
Mr. Blue by Eddie Bunker
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 
The Last to Die by Robert J. Hoshowsky
Casino by Nicholas Pileggi
Conspiracy Files by David Southwell and Sean Twist
Marching Powder by Rusty Young