by Dave Bradley | Jan 17, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Will Boast, (Granta) 2015, 281pp, RRP $27.99 Boast’s movingly personal autobiography’s title is taken from his belief that he was an ‘epilogue’ in his family when he lost his mother (brain tumour), brother (car accident) and Dad (perforated ulcer) all within some...
by Dave Bradley | Jan 17, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Stephen Fry (Penguin Books Australia) 2014, 388pp, RRP $45.00 Fry’s third autobiographical work after Moab Is My Washpot and The Fry Chronicles suffers from all the same irksome problems: wild overuse of adjectives; oodles of name-dropping; endless self-putdowns...
by Jenny Thompson | Dec 18, 2014 | Books, Reviews
Graham Norton (Hachette Australia) 2014, 292pp, RRP $32.99 Irish chat show host Graham Norton’s already written one autobiography so rather than write an updated version, he groups his life – and chapters – into things he loves. So we read about New York, Work, Men,...
