by Dave Bradley | Jul 10, 2018 | Book, Books, Reviews
D.B. Thorne (Corvus) 2018, 352pp, RRP $29.99 Digital-entrepreneur-turned-author Thorne’s follow-up to the highly-regarded Troll is a psychological thriller that’s just screaming to be the first part of a series and have at least one movie drawn from it, even though...
by Dave Bradley | Jul 10, 2018 | Books, Reviews
Stephen King (Hachette Australia) 2018, 475pp, RRP $32.99 Hot on the heels of Sleeping Beauties, King’s similarly-doorstop-like collaboration with his son Owen, comes this rather less long-winded tale which resembles one of this author’s Bill...
by Dave Bradley | May 31, 2018 | Book, Books, Music, Reviews
Margo Jefferson (Granta) 2018, 144pp, RRP $22.99 Jefferson’s brisk biography of Michael Jackson didn’t win her the Pulitzer Prize For Criticism (as the cover seems to suggest) but is still fascinating, idiosyncratic and rather disturbing, as it details the many faces...
by Dave Bradley | Apr 25, 2018 | Books, Reviews
S.J. Morden (Hachette Australia) 2018, 330pp, RRP $29.99 Dr. S.J. Morden a.k.a. Simon Morden is an award-winning author and a bona fide boffin with a degree in Geology, a PhD in Geophysics and a background in teaching and design, and this all adds to the scientific...
by Dave Bradley | Apr 25, 2018 | Books, Reviews
Clare Mackintosh (Hachette Australia) 2018, 390pp, RRP $29.99 North-Wales-based author Mackintosh’s first two novels I Let You Go and I See You demonstrated a knack for paranoid psychological drama and coolly twisty plots, and her latest epic is no different, although...
by Dave Bradley | Apr 25, 2018 | Books, Reviews
Karen Hamilton (Hachette Australia) 2018, 357pp, RRP $29.99 The Hampshire-residing Hamilton’s first novel is a study of obsession, only unlike a Fatal Attraction, for example, this is actually told from the perspective of the obsessed woman herself, and as she...