by Dave Bradley | May 6, 2022 | Book, Books, Reviews
Hannah Gadsby (Allen & Unwin) 2022, 384pp, RRP $49.99 (hardback) Gadsby’s life story (“A Memoir Situation”) details her life up to and including 2018’s Nanette, the live show that changed absolutely everything, and while it’s frequently witty and angry (in a...
by Dave Bradley | Aug 1, 2018 | Books, Reviews
Peter Laws (Icon) 2018, 312pp, RRP$29.99 The Bedfordshire-residing Laws is a crime novelist, a massive fan of horror in all its forms (movies, novels, all the dark and frightening stuff in real life) and, somehow, an ordained Baptist Minister, and he’s made quite a...
by Dave Bradley | Aug 1, 2018 | Books, Reviews
Viv Albertine (Faber) 2018, 292pp, RRP $39.99 (hardback), $29.99 (paperback) Former punk-as Slits member Albertine’s previous autobiographical work, the memorably-titled Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys, was primarily about her wild...
by Dave Bradley | Jul 10, 2018 | Book, Books, Reviews
Lorrie Moore (Faber) 2018, 407pp, RRP$39.99 The multi-award-winning Moore (a revered short story writer, children’s book author, critic and commentator for decades now) has her key and favourite essays collected here, although she does note in a pleasing introduction...
by Dave Bradley | Jul 10, 2018 | Book, Books, Reviews
D.B. Thorne (Corvus) 2018, 352pp, RRP $29.99 Digital-entrepreneur-turned-author Thorne’s follow-up to the highly-regarded Troll is a psychological thriller that’s just screaming to be the first part of a series and have at least one movie drawn from it, even though...
