by Dave Bradley | Aug 23, 2017 | Book, Books, Reviews
Laura Marshall (Hachette) 2017, 371pp, RRP $29.99 Kent-based first-time author Marshall’s psychothriller is a compelling read and intriguing on several levels: it’s yet another creepy character piece that uses social media as a site of fear and mistrust; it presents a...
by Dave Bradley | Jun 27, 2017 | Book, Books, Reviews
François Truffaut (Faber) 2017, 367pp, RRP $39.99 First published in 1966 and mostly drawn from a series of interviews conducted in 1962 (with help from a hard-working interpreter), this often-reprinted-and-revised tome is one of the key works of cinematic literature...
by Dave Bradley | Jun 27, 2017 | Book, Books, Reviews
Charlotte Rampling with Christophe Bataille (Icon) 2017, 112pp, RRP $24.99 This aesthetically pleasing book is supposedly compensation for a longer, more detailed and personal biography of (Tessa) Charlotte Rampling that Bataille apparently chased the icon for over...
by Dave Bradley | Jun 1, 2017 | Book, Books, Reviews
Ezekiel Boone (Hachette Australia) 2017, 328pp, RRP $29.99 Boone’s follow-up to last year’s The Hatching is equally readable, equally disturbing (especially for arachnophobics) and, it must be said, equally prone to padded passages and a sense of dragging-out the...
by Dave Bradley | Apr 4, 2017 | Books, Reviews
Peter Swanson (Faber) 2016, 333pp, RRP $29.99 Swanson’s knack for character-based psychodrama doesn’t desert him in this, his third novel after The Girl With A Clock For A Heart and The Kind Worth Killing, and even though this somewhat surprisingly (no spoilers...
by Dave Bradley | Apr 4, 2017 | Books, Reviews
Edited by Jim Al-Khalili (Profile) 2016, 232pp, RRP $19.99 Al-Khalili (OBE), a theoretical physicist, author, broadcaster and know-all, and 20 or so of his most formidably brainy friends and colleagues here ponder some of the biggest and most frustrating questions in...