by Dave Bradley | Apr 4, 2017 | Book, Books, Reviews
J.P. Delany (Hachette Australia) 2017, 407pp, RRP $32.99 This enjoyable page-turner from Delany (a pseudonym for a fiction writer and adman who needn’t be ashamed) has a coolly tricky structure, a few sweet twists and a lightly perverse edge, even though there are...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 26, 2016 | Books, Reviews
Linwood Barclay (Hachette Australia) 2016, 453pp, RRP $29.99 The final book in Barclay’s ‘Promise Falls Trilogy’ follows on from Broken Promise and Far From True and features all the characters you’ve come to know and love – or at least like. Or, actually, in a...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 26, 2016 | Books, Reviews
Eamon Evans (Hachette Australia) 2016, 279pp, RRP $29.99 Author, blogger and general wit Evans’ latest book continues with his funny interest in weird Australiana (check out his previous offering, Great Australian Urban Legends, for similar Ocker hi-jinx), and...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 26, 2016 | Books, Reviews
Molly (Meldrum) with Jeff Jenkins (Allen & Unwin) 2016, 482pp, RRP $34.99 This jumbo follow-up to last year’s Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum autobiography The Never, Um, Ending Story (again with help from Jeff Jenkins and with the subject now just called MOLLY) feels...
by Dave Bradley | Oct 26, 2016 | Books, Human Interest, Music, Reviews
Jimmy Barnes (HarperCollins) 2016, 362pp, RRP $45.00 Dead-set Aussie Legend Jimmy’s – sorry, Barnesy’s – autobiographical volume is the first of a projected pair, and therefore fans of Cold Chisel and his beloved solo work might be surprised by the fact that this is...
by Lynette Washington | Aug 3, 2016 | Books, Reviews
Edited by Zane Lovitt (Spineless Wonders) 2016, 197pp, RRP $27.99 Spineless Wonders are again proving themselves to be one of the most exciting and innovative publishers in Australia, and the Crime Scenes story collection is further evidence of this. For a publisher...