by Dave Bradley | Aug 17, 2020 | Book, Books, Reviews
T.W. Ellis (Hachette Australia) 2020, 374pp, RRP: Paperback $29.99 T.W. Ellis – a.k.a. Tom Wood, creator of the popular ‘Victor novels’ – here offers his first standalone psychological thriller, and it’s very readable, despite more than a few glimmers of absurdity....
by Dave Bradley | Aug 17, 2020 | Book, Books, Reviews
Oliver Stone (Hachette Australia) 2020, 342pp, RRP: Paperback $35.00. The multi-multi-award-winning Stone’s first of what should be several properly autobiographical tomes is a sometimes intense, occasionally overly personal memoir that, perhaps, is too overloaded...
by Dave Bradley | Aug 17, 2020 | Book, Books, Reviews
Stuart Coupe (Hachette Australia) 2020, pp, paperback $32.99, Ebook $14.99 Journalist/author/broadcaster/et cetera Coupe’s attempt to tell the life story of Australian National Treasure Paul Kelly seems a strange choice, at first, given that Kelly himself wrote a...
by Dave Bradley | Jun 8, 2020 | Book, Books, Reviews
Hazel Barkworth (Hachette Australia) 2020, 312pp, RRP paperback $32.99/hardback $45.00/audio book $35.99/e-book $15.99. Barkworth’s first novel is an impressively tense début, although the steamy prose that keeps going on and on about the heat of a Surrey summer seems...
by Dave Bradley | May 18, 2020 | Book, Books, Reviews
Romy Hausmann (Hachette Australia) 2020, 343pp, Paperback $32.99 Hausmann’s thriller début was originally in German (Liebes Kind) and translated by Jamie Bulloch, and some unchanged elements remain a little jarring, here and there, including a kid’s soft toy named...
by Dave Bradley | May 18, 2020 | Book, Books, Reviews
Stephen King (Hachette Australia) 2020, 369pp, Paperback $32.99/Hardback $49.99/eBook $16.99/Audio Book $44.99 The latest from the indefatigable King (coming a surprisingly relaxed-for-him eight months after his The Institute) is another collection of four novellas...