by Dave Bradley | Dec 4, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Peter Holmes, Ben Caudell and Saul Wordsworth, with interjections from Rob Brydon, Lee Mack and David Mitchell (Faber) 2015, 339pp, RRP $27.99 Although not quite in the spirit of the TV show (which is huge in the UK but never caught on here in the same way), this...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 12, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Susan Hill (Profile Books) 2015, 410pp, RRP $29.99 Although Hill has written crime novels, short stories and non-fiction, it’s her work as a creator of ghost stories that has guaranteed her fame, and while this collects her five main supernatural novellas, it’s the...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 12, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Jesse Eisenberg (Atlantic Books) 2015, 273pp, RRP $29.99 Eisenberg, star of Zombieland, The Social Network, Now You See Me and more, has also written regularly for the New Yorker, and this collection of his dark, neurotically funny pieces are a variable bunch that...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 12, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Brett Morgen With Richard Bienstock (Hachette Australia) 2015, 157pp, RRP $39.99 Writer, director, producer and editor Morgen’s book ties in with his movie, Cobain: Montage Of Heck, one of two Kurt-Cobain-related documentaries released this year (the other, Soaked In...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 12, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Sophie Hannah (Hachette Australia) 2015, 419pp, RRP $29.99 Hannah, a popular author of psychodramatic thrillers, here spins a surprisingly epic tale of very English domestic/suburban mystery and unease. Justine Merrison, a former TV producer escaping her London job...
by Lynette Washington | Nov 12, 2015 | Books, Reviews
David Mitchell (Hachette) 2015, 233pp, Hardback RRP $27.99 Fans of David Mitchell will be thrilled to know that Slade House occupies the same bizarre world as his other acclaimed novels The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas. In fact, characters, concepts and themes hark...