Jimmy Carr (Hachette Australia: Quercus) 2021, 358pp, RRP $32.99 (paperback); $45.00 (hardback) UK TV perennial Carr’s supposed autobiography is actually an attempt to combine bitingly comedic memoir,...
Jimmy Carr (Hachette Australia: Quercus) 2021, 358pp, RRP $32.99 (paperback); $45.00 (hardback) UK TV perennial Carr’s supposed autobiography is actually an attempt to combine bitingly comedic memoir,...
[BOOK ~ AUS] by Natasha Pearce. With his debut novel, The Miscreants, Christopher Hawkes follows two brothers into a precarious adulthood that is charged with wreckage, risk and volatility. Hawkes has said...
[BOOK REVIEW] Billie Eilish (Hachette Australia) 2021, 236pp, RRP $45.00 There’s some debate about whether this big, glossy tome is called Billie Eilish, By – Billie Eilish or Billie Eilish By Billie...
[BOOK REVIEW] Phoebe Wynne (Hachette Australia) 2021, 439pp, RRP $32.99 Former academic Wynne’s epic is too long at 439 pages and, like many first novels (and quite a few second and third novels too),...
[Book Review] Seth Rogen (Hachette Australia) 2021, 260pp, RRP $32.99 Rogen’s handsome tome isn’t a strict autobiography but, instead, proves to be a series of non-chronological, fondly-felt, energetically...
Alex Frayne (Wakefield Press) 2020/2021, 214pp, RRP $75.00 Adelaidean Frayne’s third book (after Adelaide Noir and Theatre Of Life, both also published by Wakefield Press) mainly moves beyond the more...
LAST ONE AT THE PARTY Bethany Clift (Hachette Australia) 2021, 355pp, RRP $32.99 Film school grad, production company director and now first-time-novelist Clift’s book is another entry in the overcrowded...
Fiona O’Loughlin (Hachette Australia) 2020, 309pp, RRP $32.99 O’Loughlin’s second autobiographical volume after 2011’s Me Of The Never Never, this is a far different and less amusing affair because...
SENIOR MOMENTS: THE COMPLETE GUIDE ON HOW TO BE SENIOR Angus FitzSimons (Hachette Australia) 2020, 224pp, RRP $29.99 FitzSimons’ volume is darkly amusing whether you’re a senior or perhaps well on the way,...
Lenny Kravitz (with David Ritz) (Hachette Australia) 2020, 260pp, RRP $32.99 paperback, $15.99 eBook. Longtime chart-topper Kravitz’s autobiography is pleasantly written and yet, somehow, his life story...