by Dave Bradley | May 15, 2016 | Books, Reviews
Alexei Sayle (Bloomsbury) 2016, 324pp, RRP$27.99 Dear old Alexei’s second volume of memoirs after Stalin Ate My Homework (and following on from his acclaimed works of fiction including The Dog Catcher and The Weeping Women Hotel) is a most readable and very funny...
by Dave Bradley | Mar 30, 2016 | Books, Reviews
Simon Mayo + Mark Kermode (A&U Canongate) 2015, 335pp, RRP $45.00 Mayo and Kermode (of the UK’s Kermode And Mayo’s Film Review radio show and podcast) here adopt the notion that they’re ‘Movie Doctors’, and therefore diagnose and prescribe what you need...
by Dave Bradley | Mar 30, 2016 | Books, Reviews
David Thomson (Profile Books) 2015, 242pp, RRP $29.99 Thomson’s latest in a seemingly annual series of film-related tomes sounds like it might be a how-to guide for the bases of cinema studies, and yet this actually reads like a most enjoyable bit of everything: a...
by Dave Bradley | Mar 24, 2016 | Books, Reviews
Thomas W. Hodgkinson and Hubert van der Bergh (Icon) 2015, 382pp, RRP $24.99 Journalist and author Hodgkinson teams up with van der Bergh, writer of the pleasing dictionary-of-fancy-words How To Sound (Really) Clever, for this amusing and helpful directory of 250...
by Dave Bradley | Mar 23, 2016 | Books, Reviews
Cheryl Strayed (Atlantic) 2015, 132pp, $16.99 Strayed, who wrote the memoir Wild: A Journey From Lost To Found (which was, of course, filmed as just Wild with Reese Witherspoon), here offers a book even simpler than her Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice On Love And Life...