by Dave Bradley | Nov 21, 2021 | Book, Books, Reviews
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, a how-to guide to being funny and a sort of pseudo-self-help book,...
by Natasha Pearce | Jul 6, 2021 | Book, Interviews
[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 that, for him, The Miscreants is about ‘a longing for...
by Dave Bradley | Jun 8, 2021 | Book, Books, Reviews
[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 Eilish but, at any rate, this should prove a must-have for fans of...
by Dave Bradley | Jun 8, 2021 | Book, Books, Reviews
[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), could have done with a ruthless edit. And yet there’s still enough...
by Dave Bradley | Jun 8, 2021 | Book, Books, Reviews
[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 (and sometimes ingeniously) foul-mouthed and typically...
by Dave Bradley | Feb 12, 2021 | Book, Books, Reviews
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 urban locales of his previous tomes to spots further out into the...