UNSW Bookshop Staff Review New & Interesting Titles
 

3rd May 2011

Stuck for what to read? The lovely Aubrey suggests three of her favourite books; The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk.

 

  

 

14th April 2011

Swa is back! This time she recommends tree very different books that each explore themes of struggle and survival; Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini and Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

 

  

 

23rd October 2010

Need some good book recommendations for the holidays? James has picked two books you are sure to enjoy; The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bolgakov and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K Dick

 

 

19th October 2010

Discover your inner detective...Swa recommends the Complete Illustrated Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Richard Feynman and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon.

 

 

24th September 2010

 Watch as Adam recommends two books by his favourite Speculative Fiction authors: "Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow & "The Way of Kings" by Brandon Sanderson.

 

6 September 2010

Andrew shares his enthusiasm for anthologies, including Wordlines, The Australian Long Story, and Best Australian Stories 2010.

 

19 July 2010

Emily reviews  "The Slap" by Christos Tsiolkas, "Sookie Stackhouse Set" by Charlaine Harris,  and Shaun Tan's beautiful contemporary classic The Arrival.

 

 

5 July 2010

Louise recommends three of her favourite books of the week: "Australian Tragic" by Jack Marx, "Due Preparations for the Plague" by Janette Turner, "Pancha Tantra" by Walton Ford.

 

 

21 June 2010

Portia recommends some of her favourite books:"The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak, "Nightwood" by Djuna Barnes" and "Clarice Bean, That's Me!" by Lauren Child.

 

 

4 June 2010

James recommends his favorite books for the second Staff Picks: "Slaughterhouse 5" by Kurt Vonnegut and "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy.

 

 

24 May 2010

Portia recommends some of her favourite books:"The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck, "A Fraction of the Whole" by Steve Toltz.