by Dave Bradley | Mar 14, 2023 | Book, Books, Reviews
[BOOK REVIEW] Shane Dunphy (Hachette Australia) 2023, 338pp, RRP $32.99 (paperback) The latest from the prolific Dunphy (sometimes credited as ‘S.A. Dunphy’) is one of those unreliable-narrator-shifting character/dramatic thrillers which stretches credibility a fair...
by Dave Bradley | Mar 14, 2023 | Book, Books, Reviews
[BOOK REVIEW] LOVE, PAMELA Pamela Anderson (Hachette Australia: Headline) 2023, 240pp, RRP $34.99 (paperback); $55.00 (hardback); $16.99 (e-book); $46.99 (audiobook) Anderson’s autobiography is very much a setting-the-record-straight effort, and while she has a real...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 1, 2022 | Book, Books, Reviews
[BOOK REVIEW] Adam Kay (Hachette Australia: Trapeze) 2022, 274pp, RRP $32.99 (paperback); $55.00 (hardback); $39.99 (audiobook) Brit Kay’s follow-up to his bestseller This Is Going To Hurt (recently turned into an English TV series starring Ben Whishaw) is a...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 1, 2022 | Book, Books, Reviews
[BOOK REVIEW] Hugh Bonneville (Hachette Australia: Little, Brown) 2022, 372pp, RRP $34.99 (paperback); $55.00 (hardback); $16.99 (e-book); $39.99 (audiobook) Bonneville’s autobiography is a little uneventful compared to many other life stories, with a decided lack of...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 1, 2022 | Book, Books, Reviews
[BOOK REVIEW] Matthew Perry (Hachette Australia: Headline) 2022, 250pp, RRP $34.99 (paperback); $65.00 (hardback); $16.99 (e-book); $55.99 (audiobook) Perry’s first book is a harrowing autobiographical study of his almost-suicidal experiences as an addict, and just to...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 1, 2022 | Book, Books, Reviews
[BOOK REVIEW] Stephen King (Hachette Australia: Hodder & Stoughton) 2022, 608pp, RRP $32.99 (paperback); $59.99 (hardback); $44.99 (audiobook) King’s latest doorstep of a novel is, like all his books nowadays, too long and overwritten, and yet while his tomes of...
