by Dave Bradley | Aug 24, 2022 | Book, Books, Reviews
[BOOK REVIEW] Allie Reynolds (Hachette Australia) 2022, 408pp, RRP $32.99 (paperback); $34.99 (audiobook); $12.99 (e-book) The Queensland-residing Reynolds’ follow-up to her flawed début Shiver is more assured, stronger and tenser, with a cool sense of threat...
by Dave Bradley | Jun 21, 2022 | Book, Books, Reviews
[BOOK REVIEW ~ AUS] Viola Davis (Hachette Australia: Coronet) 2022, 291pp, RRP $55.00 (hardback); $32.99 (paperback); $15.99 (e-Book) The Oscar, Emmy and Tony-winning Davis’ autobiography is rough, even brutal, and so unflinching that it’s, at times, pretty hard to...
by Dave Bradley | Jun 21, 2022 | Book, Books, Reviews
[BOOK REVIEW ~ AUS] David Sedaris (Hachette Australia: Little, Brown) 2022, 259pp, RRP $55.00 (hardback); $29.99 (paperback); $15.99 (e-Book) Comedian, author, memoirist and diarist Sedaris’ latest volume (following on from collections including Theft By Finding,...
by Dave Bradley | Jun 21, 2022 | Book, Books, Reviews
[BOOK REVIEW ~ AUS] Bec Hill (Hachette Australia: Hodder Children’s Books) 2022, 183pp, RRP $15.99 (paperback) Hill’s follow-up to Horror Heights: The Slime (released in September last year) is another agreeably funny and cutely scary be-careful-what-you-wish-for-type...
by Dave Bradley | Jun 21, 2022 | Book, Books, Reviews
[BOOK REVIEW ~ AUS] Adrian McKinty (Hachette Australia) 2022, 375pp, RRP $32.99 (paperback); $34.99 (audiobook); $12.99 (e-Book) The Belfast-born McKinty’s follow-up to The Chain is similarly suspenseful and, again, offers such a skilfully breakneck pace that any...