by Dave Bradley | Feb 12, 2021 | Book, Books, Reviews
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 apocalypse genre, and yet there’s a curiously English sense of...
by Dave Bradley | Jan 21, 2021 | Book, Books, Reviews
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 it’s all about the author’s realisation that she’s an alcoholic and...
by Dave Bradley | Jan 21, 2021 | Book, Books, Reviews
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, and yet in large doses it does get rather depressing....
by Dave Bradley | Nov 17, 2020 | Book, Books, Music, Reviews
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 feels just a little uneventful, something not helped by the fact...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 4, 2020 | Book, Books, Reviews
Rupert Everett (Hachette Australia) 2020, 337pp, RRP $34.99 (paperback) Actor, author, memoirist, singer and screenwriter Rupert Everett’s third autobiographical volume is mostly an account of the tortuously extended production of his last-days-of-Oscar-Wilde biopic...
by Dave Bradley | Oct 5, 2020 | Book, Books, Reviews
Alan Davies (Hachette Australia) 2020, 272pp, RRP paperback $32.99 eBook $14.99 Writer, actor, wit, perennial QI panellist and Jonathan Creek himself, the beloved Alan Davies’ latest volume is a proper memoir, although this isn’t the fun, lightly melancholic read...