by Dave Bradley | Sep 17, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Fraser McAlpine (Nicholas Brealey) 2015, 360pp, RRP $22.99 The Oxfordshire-born and Cornwall-dwelling McAlpine, the lead writer for BBC Anglophenia (and a specialist in Doctor Who), here offers a lengthy list of things that get Brits going (in a good way most of the...
by Dave Bradley | Sep 2, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Clive James (Footprint), 2015, 180pp, RRP $29.95 Author/critic/memoirist/broadcaster/journalist/translator/you name it James’ latest and perhaps last tome is a collection of essays drawn from his ‘final’ reading list, a bunch of books he read and reread while dealing...
by Lynette Washington | Aug 24, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Joanna Rakoff (Bloomsbury) 2015, 503pp, RRP $32.99 Joanna Rakoff was a popular speaker at the 2015 Adelaide Writers’ Week, where she spoke about her excellent memoir, My Salinger Year. Subsequent to the success of her visit, her first novel, A Fortunate Age, was...
by Lynette Washington | Aug 24, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Sean Michaels (Bloomsbury) 2015, 347pp, RRP $19.99 Leon Termen is a scientific genius. Among many other things, he invented the Theremin, a musical instrument unlike any other. In the 1920s he leaves his homeland Russia to, ostensibly, promote his instrument in the...
by Dave Bradley | Aug 24, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Jon Bream (Voyageur Press) 2015, 240pp, RRP $39.99 Bream’s beautiful tome attempts to encompass Dylan’s vast body of often variable work, from 1962’s Bob Dylan to 2015’s inexplicable Shadows In The Night, with each album entry introduced by a cool description written...
by Dave Bradley | Aug 24, 2015 | Books, Reviews
“by Lindt” (Quarto Group UK) 2015, 54pp, RRP $16.99 Seemingly designed and penned by Lindt types, this attractive, Lindt-block-shaped cookbook has much to tempt the chocolate obsessive, provided they can be bothered to prepare and/or cook an actual dish and don’t...