by David Robinson | May 1, 2018 | Reviews, Spoken Word
The Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, Mon 30 Apr. “Will you please welcome on stage… Dr John Cooper Clarke!” The introduction is met with applause from the growing crowd, and the man of the hour appears as the theme to 1950s US cop show Dragnet fades. Dr Clarke (University of...
by David Robinson | May 1, 2018 | Live Music, Music, Reviews
The Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, Mon 30 Apr. It’s standing room only at The Gov this evening. All of the tables and chairs have been removed, in anticipation of a bumper crowd. Whomever it is that works these things out has got it right, because the place is fairly...
by Dave Bradley | Apr 25, 2018 | Books, Reviews
S.J. Morden (Hachette Australia) 2018, 330pp, RRP $29.99 Dr. S.J. Morden a.k.a. Simon Morden is an award-winning author and a bona fide boffin with a degree in Geology, a PhD in Geophysics and a background in teaching and design, and this all adds to the scientific...
by Dave Bradley | Apr 25, 2018 | Books, Reviews
Clare Mackintosh (Hachette Australia) 2018, 390pp, RRP $29.99 North-Wales-based author Mackintosh’s first two novels I Let You Go and I See You demonstrated a knack for paranoid psychological drama and coolly twisty plots, and her latest epic is no different, although...
by Dave Bradley | Apr 25, 2018 | Books, Reviews
Karen Hamilton (Hachette Australia) 2018, 357pp, RRP $29.99 The Hampshire-residing Hamilton’s first novel is a study of obsession, only unlike a Fatal Attraction, for example, this is actually told from the perspective of the obsessed woman herself, and as she...
by Dave Bradley | Apr 25, 2018 | Books, Reviews
Carmen Maria Machado (Profile) 2018, 243pp, RRP $24.99 Machado has somewhat defied description for some time now, with her writing straddling horror, sci-fi, psychodrama, women’s erotica and ‘queer’ genres, and this collection of short stories includes examples of all...