by Dave Bradley | Mar 31, 2020 | Book, Books, Reviews
Graham Moore (Hachette Australia) 2020, 322pp, paperback $32.99, eBook $14.99. Novelist and screenwriter Moore (who won the Oscar for his adapted screenplay for The Imitation Game) here tries his hand at a legal thriller, and while he’s obviously worked hard to make...
by Dave Bradley | Jan 9, 2020 | Book, Books, Reviews
Billy Connolly (Hachette Australia) 2019, 330pp, RRP $45.00 (hardback) The latest volume from Billy (a.k.a. ‘The Big Yin’) isn’t a proper autobiography – something we could well do with – but a selection of old routines and anecdotes, some of which he...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 19, 2019 | Book, Books, Reviews
Mick Wall (Hachette Australia) 2019, 310pp, paperback RRP $32.99 Indefatigable rock and roll biographer Wall has previously turned out very readable but somewhat conventional books upon Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, Black Sabbath, Foo Fighters, Lou Reed, Prince and many...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 20, 2019 | Book, Books, Reviews
Jo Wood (Hachette Australia) 2019, 255pp, Hardback $39.99 Jo (Josephine) Wood (née Karslake), model, entrepreneur, author, TV type and dancer (sort of), here offers another book about her life as missus to Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood, whom she writes about with such...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 20, 2019 | Book, Books, Reviews
Flea (Hachette Australia) 2019, 379pp, Paperback $32.99, eBook $14.99 Flea, a.k.a. Michael Peter Balzary, Australian-American actor and a founding member of The Red Hot Chili Peppers, begins this volume of autobiography with an original poem by fan Patti Smith, and...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 13, 2019 | Book, Books, Reviews
Terry O’Neill (Hachette Australia) 2019, 256pp, Hardback $49.99 A key photographer of many and varied icons (including various Beatles, Rolling Stones and Royals, as well as his once-wife Faye Dunaway, Judy Garland and even Winston Churchill), O’Neill’s many, many...