Blarney Books & Art

Several times I picked up this book, read the blurb and put it back down, feeling that a boys' own adventure in the American west...

As Lisa Allardice has said in The Guardian, this book will “mark you like a tattoo”, and she’s not wrong. About a third of way through...

Tracy Farr is an Australian who has lived in New Zealand for the last 20 or so years. The Hope Fault is her second novel, and it’s a...

We travelled overseas for two months earlier this year, and I carried Jenny Ackland’s Little Gods with me all the way. (It is one of the...

A few years ago we took the kids to a wonderful Circus Oz production called, But Wait, There’s More, a show built around the theme of...

If I were to suggest to you that you ought to read a book about a shipwreck and an alien, would you read it? If someone had made that...