by Dave Bradley | Mar 26, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Marion Halligan (Allen & Unwin) 2015, 291pp, RRP $29.99 Halligan’s latest novel is often gorgeously written and melancholically moving, and yet there’s something a little precious and even (dare it be said?) pretentious here. A study of pain, mortality, messily...
by Dave Bradley | Mar 26, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Bill Price (Murdoch Books) 2015, 256pp, RRP $29.99 The latest in an ongoing series of glossy volumes dedicated to studying ‘History’s Best/Worst/Greatest…’ (mysteries, wars and so forth), Price’s straightforward study of the worst crimes ever (a subjective thing,...
by Dave Bradley | Mar 26, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Charles M. Schulz [and guests] (A&U Canongate) 2015, 323/325pp, RRP $29.99 ea The Peanuts comic strip (1950 – 2000), the massively and abidingly popular brainchild of Charles M. Schulz (1922 – 2000), was gearing up for its 40th birthday when these...
by Dave Bradley | Mar 26, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Miranda July (Allen & Unwin) 2015, 276pp, RRP $27.99 Despite glowing praise from author/artist/filmmaker July’s bigtime besties (Lena Dunham, A.M. Homes and more) on the cover, this irritating novel (July’s first) follows the plight of a narrator who’s so forlorn...
by Dave Bradley | Mar 26, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Kate Hamer (Faber) 2015, 378pp, RRP $29.99 Hamer’s first novel is a compelling read that works as a complex psychological drama, a powerful study of grief, loss and healing, and a pointed attack on religious zealotry, although it does tend to become just a little...