by Dave Bradley | Apr 19, 2021 | Books, Reviews
[BOOK REVIEW] Marita Bullock and Joan-Maree Hargreaves (Hachette Australia) 2021, 57pp, RRP $29.99 Bullock, Hargreaves and illustrator Liz Rowland’s lovely tome is short and sweet, and although apparently intended for children it’s, nevertheless, surely appealing...
by Dave Bradley | Apr 19, 2021 | Books, Reviews
[BOOK REVIEW] Allie Reynolds (Hachette Australia) 2021, 425pp, RP $32.99 This first novel by Reynolds, a former professional freestyle snowboarder, unsurprisingly features characters who engage in the sport an awful lot, and every time we try to get close to them or...
by Dave Bradley | Apr 19, 2021 | Books, Reviews
[BOOK REVIEW] Dr. Brad McKay (Hachette Australia) 2021, 290pp, RRP $32.99 McKay, an Aussie ‘science communicator’, TV host and Sydney GP, devotes his first book to uncovering many medical crazes and cons (as its subtitle suggest), but what could have been a dry,...
by Dave Bradley | Feb 12, 2021 | Book, Books, Reviews
Alex Frayne (Wakefield Press) 2020/2021, 214pp, RRP $75.00 Adelaidean Frayne’s third book (after Adelaide Noir and Theatre Of Life, both also published by Wakefield Press) mainly moves beyond the more urban locales of his previous tomes to spots further out into the...
by Dave Bradley | Feb 12, 2021 | Book, Books, Reviews
LAST ONE AT THE PARTY Bethany Clift (Hachette Australia) 2021, 355pp, RRP $32.99 Film school grad, production company director and now first-time-novelist Clift’s book is another entry in the overcrowded apocalypse genre, and yet there’s a curiously English sense of...
by Dave Bradley | Jan 21, 2021 | Book, Books, Reviews
Fiona O’Loughlin (Hachette Australia) 2020, 309pp, RRP $32.99 O’Loughlin’s second autobiographical volume after 2011’s Me Of The Never Never, this is a far different and less amusing affair because it’s all about the author’s realisation that she’s an alcoholic and...