by Audrey West | Jan 22, 2016 | Books, Reviews
Cameron Raynes (MidnightSun Publishing) 2016, 261pp, RRP Paperback $24.99, E-Book $9.99 In First Person Shooter, Adelaide author and screenwriter Cameron Raynes explores the contemporary experience of online game addiction through the likeable but plagued protagonist...
by Dave Bradley | Jan 20, 2016 | Books, Reviews
Sophie Hannah (Profile Books) 2015, 106pp, RRP $19.99 Although Hannah is associated with psychological crime fiction and a sort of suburban English noir, this collection of four of her not-quite-short spooky stories demonstrates that she has a gift for the eerily...
by Dave Bradley | Jan 20, 2016 | Books, Reviews
David Cavanagh (Faber) 2015, 620pp, RRP $45.00 The cover of Cavanagh’s formidable tome comes with fond raves about beloved DJ, radio broadcaster, journalist and all-round-good-egg John Peel (1939 – 2004) from Jack White, Johnny Marr, Elvis Costello, Elton John,...
by Dave Bradley | Jan 20, 2016 | Books, Reviews
Tiffany Watt Smith (Profile) 2015, 208pp, RRP $29.99 Part of and tied into the ‘Wellcome Collection’ and ‘Wellcome Trust’ (look them up), Smith’s handsome tome is a dictionary of emotions (or, as the introduction points out, ‘passions’ or ‘humours’ as they were once...
by Dave Bradley | Jan 19, 2016 | Books, Reviews
Amy Simmons (Footprint) 2015, 89pp Freelance writer Simmons’ contribution to the ‘Devil’s Advocates’ series is a complex and enlightening analysis of a film that stands as one of writer/director Lars von Trier’s most confronting and endlessly controversial, which is...
by Dave Bradley | Jan 19, 2016 | Books, Reviews
John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin (Faber) 2015, 331pp, RRP $22.99 Yet another compendium of amazingly amazing facts (coming after previous tomes that have promised to knock our socks off, knock us sideways and make our jaws drop), this enjoyable tie-in with...