by Dave Bradley | Aug 24, 2015 | Books, Reviews
“by Lindt” (Quarto Group UK) 2015, 54pp, RRP $16.99 Seemingly designed and penned by Lindt types, this attractive, Lindt-block-shaped cookbook has much to tempt the chocolate obsessive, provided they can be bothered to prepare and/or cook an actual dish and don’t...
by Dave Bradley | Aug 24, 2015 | Books, Reviews
David Astle (Allen & Unwin) 2015, 308pp, RRP $22.99 Astle, legendary crossword setter for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age and an author of several books on wordplay themes (no less than Geoffrey Rush has described him as “The Sergeant Pepper of cryptic...
by Dave Bradley | Aug 24, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Hanif Kureishi (Faber), 2015, 219pp, RRP $27.99 The unreliable Kureishi’s latest combines short stories, odd essays on pet subjects and autobiographical pieces on sometimes minor topics, and they’re a mixed bag indeed. Opening with the memorably disturbing fiction of...
by Dave Bradley | Aug 13, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Paul Edmondson (Profile) 2015, 186pp, RRP $19.99 Edmondson, a prolific Shakespeare author and know-all, contributes to the ‘Ideas In Profile’ series with this very accessible study of why Shakespeare matters in this jaded modern day, something worth pondering after...
by Dave Bradley | Jul 21, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Stefan Spjut (Faber) 2015, 587pp, RRP $29.99 It’s fitting that Spjut’s novel concerns giants, as his book, at almost 600 pages, is a giant itself, and while there have been elaborate comparisons drawn between this and the similarly Swedish Let The Right One In (Låt...