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TWO RIDERS WERE APPROACHING: THE LIFE & DEATH OF JIMI HENDRIX by Mick Wall: Acting Funny, But I Don’t Know Why… ~ Book Review

Book / Books / Reviews / December 19, 2019

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...


STONED ~ Photographs & Treasures From Life With The Rolling Stones: Access All Areas (So To Speak) ~ Book Review

Book / Books / Reviews / November 20, 2019

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...


Acid For The Children by Flea: Smoke It Away, Smoke It Away, Smoke It Away Now… ~ Book Review

Book / Books / Reviews / November 20, 2019

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...


ELTON JOHN – THE DEFINITIVE PORTRAIT, WITH UNSEEN IMAGES: Looking Like A True Survivor, Feeling Like A Little Kid ~ Book Review.

Book / Books / Reviews / November 13, 2019

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,...


THE LAND BELONGS TO ME by Alys Jackson and Shane McGrath: Trouble Afoot On The Farm ~ Book Review

Books / Reviews / November 4, 2019

[CHILDREN’S/FAMILY BOOK] Written by Alys Jackson and Illustrated by Shane McGrath (Big Sky Publishing) 2019, pp32, RRP $14.99 In Alys Jackson’s debut children’s picture book, The Land Belongs To Me, there...


THE INSTITUTE by Stephen King: We All Shine On ~ Book Review

Book / Books / Reviews / October 6, 2019

Stephen King (Hachette Australia), 485pp, RRP $32.99, e-Book $14.99. The indefatigable King’s latest is yet another doorstop of a book which, despite a vaguely odd structure and the need (once again)...


BORN TO FLY by Beverley McWillams & Timothy Ide: Harry Butler Was Born To Fly ~ Book Review

Book / Books / Reviews / October 1, 2019

[PICTURE BOOK] Beverley McWilliams, Illustrated by Timothy Ide (MidnightSun Publishing) 2019, 32pp, RRP $29.99. Beverley McWilliams’ tale of South Australian aviator and icon, Harry Butler, is a charming...


CURIOUS RECOLLECTIONS – LIFE IN THE CURIOSITY SHOW by Rob Morrison ~ Book Review

Book / Books / Reviews / September 3, 2019

Rob Morrison (Wakefield Press) 2019, 198pp, RRP $24.95 Academic, writer, broadcaster, muso and Adelaidean Morrison’s memoir is structured as a pleasingly non-chronological series of reminisces, many...


THE PERFECT WIFE by JP Delaney: The Ghost In The Machine ~ Book Review

Books / Reviews / September 2, 2019

JP Delaney (Hachette Australia) 2019, 435pp, RRP $32.99 (paperback) The pseudonymous Delaney’s next trick after The Girl Before and Believe Me is another twisty psychological thriller, albeit one with...


ACROSS THE VOID: The Space Between Us ~ Book Review

Books / Reviews / July 1, 2019

S.K. Vaughn (Sphere) 2019, 469pp. RRP $32.99 (paperback), $39.99 (hardback), $16.99 (e-Book). This veritable doorstop of a book from Vaughn (a pseudonym for a very successful author and screenwriter) looks...



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