by Dave Bradley | Aug 17, 2020 | Book, Books, Reviews
Stuart Coupe (Hachette Australia) 2020, pp, paperback $32.99, Ebook $14.99 Journalist/author/broadcaster/et cetera Coupe’s attempt to tell the life story of Australian National Treasure Paul Kelly seems a strange choice, at first, given that Kelly himself wrote a...
by Dave Bradley | Jun 25, 2020 | Books, Reviews
Peter May (Hachette Australia) 2020, 399pp, Paperback RRP $22.99, Audiobook $39.99, eBook $12.99. Prolific crime/thriller author May’s latest was actually penned in 2005, as he explains in the introduction (written from his home in France earlier this year), but never...
by Dave Bradley | Jun 8, 2020 | Book, Books, Reviews
Hazel Barkworth (Hachette Australia) 2020, 312pp, RRP paperback $32.99/hardback $45.00/audio book $35.99/e-book $15.99. Barkworth’s first novel is an impressively tense début, although the steamy prose that keeps going on and on about the heat of a Surrey summer seems...
by Dave Bradley | May 18, 2020 | Book, Books, Reviews
Romy Hausmann (Hachette Australia) 2020, 343pp, Paperback $32.99 Hausmann’s thriller début was originally in German (Liebes Kind) and translated by Jamie Bulloch, and some unchanged elements remain a little jarring, here and there, including a kid’s soft toy named...
by Dave Bradley | May 18, 2020 | Book, Books, Reviews
Stephen King (Hachette Australia) 2020, 369pp, Paperback $32.99/Hardback $49.99/eBook $16.99/Audio Book $44.99 The latest from the indefatigable King (coming a surprisingly relaxed-for-him eight months after his The Institute) is another collection of four novellas...
by Dave Bradley | May 18, 2020 | Book, Books, Reviews
Tori Amos (Hachette Australia) 2020, 261pp, Hardback $35.00/eBook $14.99 Singer, songwriter, bestselling author, and social commentator Amos’ follow-up to Tori Amos: Piece By Piece demonstrates that she’s still a formidable force at 56 and after 15 studio albums and a...