Something that puzzled me all year was why, why, was there two Snow White movies coming out?

Was there some sort of great need for Snow White movies? Perhaps a Snow White crisis of some description? Did I miss the memo on that?

But then I asked Google just that, and found this random article which explained that the Julia Roberts version is the child version, and the Charlize Theron version is the adult version.

Got it! That makes sense.

Well, more sense than it did before. Still, two Snow White movies in one year...?

Anywhoo, I was dragged off - somewhat kicking and screaming - to Snow White and the Huntsman - last week.

Let's pop up some disclaimers, shall we?

I don't like fantasy books or fantasy movies, I don't like Kristen Stewart, I love Julia Roberts, I love Disney. I was also resentful of ...

Daughter of Smoke and Bone is a book unbounded by genre but located at a magical crossroads where The Passage meets Philip Pullman and Twilight meets Pan's Labyrinth.

Errand requiring immediate attention. Come.

The note was on vellum, pierced by the talons of the almost-crow that delivered it. Karou read the message. 'He never says please', she sighed, but she gathered up her things.

When Brimstone called, she always came.

In general, Karou has managed to keep her two lives in balance. On the one hand, she's a seventeen-year-old art student in Prague; on the other, errand-girl to a monstrous creature who is the closest thing she has to family. Raised half in our world, half in 'Elsewhere', she has never understood Brimstone's dark work - buying teeth from hunters and murderers - nor how she came into his keeping. She is a secret ...

Thanks to Pan Macmillan, I have not one but two Alyson Noël books to give away!

Hooray!

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The fourth book in the moving and uplifting Riley Bloom series, exploring one girl's adventures in the afterlife – from the bestselling author of The Immortals.

Riley Bloom died, aged twelve, in a car crash with her parents and her beloved dog Buttercup. Her sister Ever survived – but that's another story. Riley must let go of Ever and all the things that tied her to life – and discover what she's meant to be in the afterlife. Riley is a soul catcher. That means helping the unhappy lost souls who stick around in the human realm to move on – and find their own place, over the bridge, in the great hereafter. With her spirit guide, Bodhi, and Buttercup by her side, Riley embarks on ...

A chilling, edge-of-your seat thriller. Alien meets Moon.

Three teenagers are going on the trip of a lifetime. Only one is coming back.

It's been more than forty years since NASA sent the first men to the moon and to grab some much-needed funding and attention, they decide to launch an historic international lottery in which three lucky teenagers can win a week-long trip to moon base DARLAH 2 - a place that no one but top government officials even knew existed until now. The three winners, Antoine, Midori and Mia, come from all over the world.

But just before the scheduled launch, the teenagers each experience strange, inexplicable events. Little do they know that there was a reason NASA never sent anyone back there until now - a sinister reason. But the countdown has already begun...

Thanks to Hachette Australia, I have one ...

A Thousand Tiny Truths is the third novel by Toronto author Kyo Maclear. And what better day to win a copy but on a public holiday!

Born of an adulterous affair, ethnically ambiguous and growing up in the racially charged 1960s, life was never going to be kind to Marcel. Living with his white surrogate father, Oliver, Marcel clings to the piecemeal memories of his mother, desperate to know who his real parents are.

But the world is changing: coups, revolutions, the end of colonialism. When Oliver leaves Marcel to pursue his dream as a foreign correspondent, Marcel is set adrift in swinging London, a city of magic, of possibilities – and of devastating realities. When Marcel joins Oliver in Vietnam, and discovers the truth about his mother, his world is shattered.

Years later, when Marcel is asked to take care of eleven-year-old ...