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LAST ONE AT THE PARTY by Bethany Clift: It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Like Hell) ~ Hachette Aust Book Review

Book / Books / Reviews / February 12, 2021

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...


TRUTHS FROM AN UNRELIABLE WITNESS by Fiona O’Loughlin: Where Have All The Good Times Gone? ~ Hachette Aust. Book Review

Book / Books / Reviews / January 21, 2021

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...


SENIOR MOMENTS by Angus FitzSimons: Get Off My Lawn!!! ~ Hachette Aust. Book Review

Book / Books / Reviews / January 21, 2021

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,...


LET LOVE RULE by Lenny Kravitz w/ David Ritz: Are You Gonna Go His Way… Again? ~ Hachette Aust Book Review

Book / Books / Music / Reviews / November 17, 2020

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...


TO THE END OF THE WORLD -TRAVELS WITH OSCAR WILDE by Rupert Everett: The Less-Than-Happy Princess ~ Hachette Aust Book Review

Book / Books / Reviews / November 4, 2020

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...


JUST IGNORE HIM by Alan Davies: QD (Quite Disturbing) ~ Hachette Australia Book Review

Book / Books / Reviews / October 5, 2020

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...


A KNOCK AT THE DOOR by T.W. Ellis: Free Agents ~ Hachette Australia Book Review

Book / Books / Reviews / August 17, 2020

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,...


CHASING THE LIGHT: HOW I FOUGHT MY WAY INTO HOLLYWOOD FROM THE 1960s TO PLATOON by Oliver Stone: Natural Born Filmmaker ~ Hachette Australia Book Review

Book / Books / Reviews / August 17, 2020

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...


PAUL KELLY: THE MAN, THE MUSIC AND THE LIFE IN-BETWEEN by Stuart Coupe: Leaps And Bounds ~ Hachette Australia Book Review

Book / Books / Reviews / August 17, 2020

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...


LOCKDOWN by Peter May: Nothing To Sneeze At… A COVID-19 Prediction??? ~ Book Review

Books / Reviews / June 25, 2020

Peter May (Hachette Australia) 2020, 399pp, Paperback RRP $22.99, Audiobook $39.99, eBook $12.99. Prolific crime/thriller author May’s latest was actually penned in 2005, as he explains in the introduction...



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