by Dave Bradley | Dec 4, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Peter Holmes, Ben Caudell and Saul Wordsworth, with interjections from Rob Brydon, Lee Mack and David Mitchell (Faber) 2015, 339pp, RRP $27.99 Although not quite in the spirit of the TV show (which is huge in the UK but never caught on here in the same way), this...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 12, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Susan Hill (Profile Books) 2015, 410pp, RRP $29.99 Although Hill has written crime novels, short stories and non-fiction, it’s her work as a creator of ghost stories that has guaranteed her fame, and while this collects her five main supernatural novellas, it’s the...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 10, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Nick Frost (Hachette Australia) 2015, 314pp, $32.99 Originally, it seems, written by Frost under the unbowdlerised title Truths, Half Truths And Utter Bullshit, this memoir by the 40something Nick (and yes, he does acknowledge that he is a bit young to be getting...
by Dave Bradley | Oct 29, 2015 | Books, Interviews
by Dave Bradley. The Adelaide-bred Andrew P. Street, a Fairfax columnist and now first-time-author, took the time to talk with The Clothesline about his book with that wonderfully long title, and the following is an edited transcript of a considerably lengthier,...
by Dave Bradley | Sep 17, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Fraser McAlpine (Nicholas Brealey) 2015, 360pp, RRP $22.99 The Oxfordshire-born and Cornwall-dwelling McAlpine, the lead writer for BBC Anglophenia (and a specialist in Doctor Who), here offers a lengthy list of things that get Brits going (in a good way most of the...