Zigzag Street
10 best books like Zigzag Street (Nick Earls): Stark, The Enchanted Wood, The Place on Dalhousie, He Died with a Felafel in His Hand, The Erratics, Gravity Is the Thing, The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire, Adventures of the Wishing Chair, Fake: A startling true story of love in a world of liars, cheats, narcissists, fantasists and phonies, Black Dogs
| Author | Ben Elton |
| ISBN | 0552154482 |
Stark is a secret consortium with more money than God, and the social conscience of a dog on a croquet lawn. What's more, it knows the Earth is dying.
Deep in Western Australia where the Aboriginals used to milk the trees, a planet-sized plot is taking shape. Some green freaks...
| Author | Enid Blyton |
| ISBN | 0749748001 |
Jo, Bessie and Fanny move to the country and find an Enchanted Wood right on their doorstep. In the magic Faraway Tree live the magical characters that soon become their new friends – Moon-Face, Silky the fairy, and Saucepan Man. Together they visit the strange lands (the Roundabout Land, the Land...
| Author | Melina Marchetta |
| ISBN | 0143793535 |
'You look the type to break your father’s heart.'
'Yeah, but he broke mine first.’
When Rosie Gennaro first meets Jimmy Hailler, she has walked away from life in Sydney, leaving behind the place on Dalhousie that her father, Seb, painstakingly rebuilt for his family but never saw completed....
He Died with a Felafel in His Hand
| Author | John Birmingham |
| ISBN | 1875989218 |
I once lived with a man who covered the entire wall of our shared (four people) bathroom with hard-core Dutch pornography. I asked him to take it down and he claimed it couldn’t be removed as it was ‘Art’. We had a yelling match that went for thirty minutes.
If you’ve ever shared a home with...
| Author | Vicki Laveau-Harvie |
| ISBN | 0648100855 |
When her elderly mother is hospitalised after an accident, Vicki is summoned to her parents' isolated and run-down ranch home in Alberta, Canada, to care for her father. She has been estranged from her parents for many years (the reasons for which become quickly clear) and is horrified by what she discovers...
| Author | Jaclyn Moriarty |
| ISBN | 0062883747 |
The adult debut from bestselling, award-winning young adult author Jaclyn Moriarty—a frequently hilarious, brilliantly observed novel—that follows a single mother’s heartfelt search for greater truths about the universe, her family and herself.
Twenty years ago, Abigail Sorenson’s...
The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire
On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley, then sat on the roof of his house to watch the inferno. In the Valley, where the rates of crime were the highest in the state, more than thirty people were known to police as firebugs....
Adventures of the Wishing Chair
| Author | Enid Blyton |
| ISBN | 1741216664 |
Wow, this book brings back memories. I'll be honest, I have never actually read an Enid Blyton book myself, as my mum used to read them to me as a kid. However, now that I am older and a little faster at reading, I gave it a go and damn, am I impressed.
It's just a fun, fantastical adventure that is bound...
Fake: A startling true story of love in a world of liars, cheats, narcissists, fantasists and phonies
Women the world over are brought up to hope, even expect, to find the man of their dreams, marry and live happily ever after. When Stephanie Wood meets a sweet man who owns a farm and property, she embarks on an exhilarating romance with him. He seems compassionate, truthful and loving. He talks about the...
| Author | Ian McEwan |
| ISBN | 0385494327 |
Set in late 1980s Europe at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Black Dogs is the intimate story of the crumbling of a marriage, as witnessed by an outsider. Jeremy is the son-in-law of Bernard and June Tremaine, whose union and estrangement began almost simultaneously. Seeking to comprehend how...
