by Dave Bradley | May 26, 2016 | Books, Music, Reviews
Mick Wall (Hachette Australia) 2016, 309pp, RRP $32.99 Rock writer and pro biographer Wall has always had an interest in the harder, more metal side of things (note his other tomes upon Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden and Guns N’ Roses), and...
by Dave Bradley | May 26, 2016 | Books, Reviews
Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Hachette Australia) 2016, 404pp, RRP $32.99 As translated by Nancy Forest-Flier, Heuvelt’s latest novel is of course a study of evil (of all types), and while it works as a memorable horror drama, there’s also considerably more at work here,...
by Dave Bradley | May 25, 2016 | Books, Reviews
M.R. Carey (Hachette Australia) 2016, 487pp, RRP $29.99 Carey (a pseudonym?), he of the “word-of-mouth bestseller” The Girl With All The Gifts, follows that one up with this weighty effort which begins well, gets awfully bogged down midway in lots of overly...
by Dave Bradley | May 15, 2016 | Books, Reviews
Arlene Heyman (Bloomsbury) 2016, 228pp, RRP $29.99 New Yorker Heyman, acclaimed author, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, here offers seven not-quite-short-stories (40 pages or so is the average) concerning, of course, sex, and yet in actuality her focus here is upon...
by Dave Bradley | May 15, 2016 | Books, Reviews
Alexei Sayle (Bloomsbury) 2016, 324pp, RRP$27.99 Dear old Alexei’s second volume of memoirs after Stalin Ate My Homework (and following on from his acclaimed works of fiction including The Dog Catcher and The Weeping Women Hotel) is a most readable and very funny...
by Lynette Washington | Apr 10, 2016 | Books, Reviews
Kim Lock (Macmillan Australia) 2016, 320pp, RRP $29.99 Fairlie Winter and Jenna Rudolph are best friends and have been since birth. Their mothers were best friends who lived a few doors away from each other and the young women grew up bonded and inseparable. But all...