by Dave Bradley | Jan 20, 2016 | Books, Reviews
Sophie Hannah (Profile Books) 2015, 106pp, RRP $19.99 Although Hannah is associated with psychological crime fiction and a sort of suburban English noir, this collection of four of her not-quite-short spooky stories demonstrates that she has a gift for the eerily...
by Dave Bradley | Jan 20, 2016 | Books, Reviews
David Cavanagh (Faber) 2015, 620pp, RRP $45.00 The cover of Cavanagh’s formidable tome comes with fond raves about beloved DJ, radio broadcaster, journalist and all-round-good-egg John Peel (1939 – 2004) from Jack White, Johnny Marr, Elvis Costello, Elton John,...
by Dave Bradley | Jan 20, 2016 | Books, Reviews
Tiffany Watt Smith (Profile) 2015, 208pp, RRP $29.99 Part of and tied into the ‘Wellcome Collection’ and ‘Wellcome Trust’ (look them up), Smith’s handsome tome is a dictionary of emotions (or, as the introduction points out, ‘passions’ or ‘humours’ as they were once...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 4, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Compiled by Shaun Usher (Canongate) 2015, 365pp, RRP $59.99 The follow-up to Usher’s Letters Of Note (and last year’s similarly lovely Lists Of Note) is another glossy tome full to bursting with letters (handwritten, typed, printed, transcribed, whatever) sent...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 4, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Phil Sutcliffe (Quarto Group USA) 2015, 293pp, RRP $35.00 Sutcliffe’s updated tome (first published in 2009) makes no apologies in claiming that stadium rockers Queen (who decided to remain essentially disbanded since the death of their lead singer – unlike INXS) are...