by Dave Bradley | Dec 4, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Neil Archer (Footprint Books) 2015, 119pp, RRP $28.95 One of the lighter-sounding entries in the Studying series (which features offerings upon American Beauty, City Of God, The Devil’s Backbone and Pan’s Labyrinth, Fight Club, Disaster Movies and more), Archer’s...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 4, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton) 2015, 483pp, RRP $32.99 The ludicrously prolific King’s latest (he seems to knock off a bestseller over a weekend these days!) is a bumper collection of short stories, some of which have been published previously (the biting...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 4, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon (Black Dog & Leventhal) 2015, 703pp, RRP $60.00 While there have been formidable books studying the prolific output of the great and oh-so-difficult Bob Dylan before (such as Dylan: Disc By Disc earlier this year),...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 4, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Steve Turner (Hachette Australia) 2015, 352pp, RRP $49.99 This updated version of Turner’s Fab-Four-focussed collection (originally published in 1994) might have had a little of its thunder stolen by All The Songs: The Story Behind Every Beatles Release and yet...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 4, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Compiled by Shaun Usher (Canongate) 2015, 365pp, RRP $59.99 The follow-up to Usher’s Letters Of Note (and last year’s similarly lovely Lists Of Note) is another glossy tome full to bursting with letters (handwritten, typed, printed, transcribed, whatever) sent...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 4, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Phil Sutcliffe (Quarto Group USA) 2015, 293pp, RRP $35.00 Sutcliffe’s updated tome (first published in 2009) makes no apologies in claiming that stadium rockers Queen (who decided to remain essentially disbanded since the death of their lead singer – unlike INXS) are...