by Dave Bradley | Dec 20, 2017 | Book, Books, Reviews
Written by Jean-Yves Ferri and illustrated by Didier Conrad (Orion Children’s Books), 46pp, RRP $24.99 René Goscinny and Albert(o) Uderzo’s names still appear at the top of each new Asterix adventure, even though Goscinny died in 1977, Uderzo wrote the stories solo...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 9, 2017 | Book, Books, Reviews
Stephen King and Owen King (Hodder & Stoughton) 2017, 713pp, $32.00 (paperback), RRP $45.00 (hardback), RRP $16.99 (e-Book) The indefatigable Stephen King teams up with his son Owen (a writer just like his other lad, Joe Hill a.k.a. Joseph Hillstrom King) for...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 9, 2017 | Book, Books, Reviews
Christopher Fowler (Hachette Australia) 2017, 374pp, RRP $35.00 The prolific Fowler’s gorgeous latest is a wonderfully witty study of authors who, despite huge sales, trendsetting innovations and major celebrity even only a few decades ago, are now strangely,...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 9, 2017 | Book, Books, Reviews
Matt Lucas (Canongate Trade) 2017, 321pp, RRP $32.99 Lucas (co-creator of TV’s Little Britain, Peter Capaldi’s co-star in Doctor Who and more) here frolics through an alphabetical, non-chronological series of autobiographical chapters regarding his life and times, all...
by Dave Bradley | Sep 29, 2017 | Book, Books, Reviews
Maggie O’Farrell (Hachette Australia) 2017, 292pp, RRP $29.99 Edinburgh-based novelist O’Farrell’s memoir recounts her life as she keeps barely escaping death, and while having eluded the Reaper’s grasp seventeen times, according to the title, might seem like a lot,...
by Dave Bradley | Aug 23, 2017 | Book, Books, Reviews
Linda Green (Quercus) 2017, 429pp, RRP $29.99 Green’s follow-up to her While My Eyes Were Closed was partly inspired by true stories of domestic violence, and while this has a supernatural/fantastical edge which is never really explained, it remains an often...