by Dave Bradley | May 10, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Richard King (Faber & Faber) 2015, 252pp, RRP $35.00 King’s memoir of an early ‘90s time when he was a regular customer of indie record shop Revolver in Bristol and, later, an employee, seeks to evoke a whole recently-lost period before the internet and Amazon and...
by Dave Bradley | May 10, 2015 | Books, Reviews
David Spiegelhalter (Profile) 2015, 368pp, RRP $27.99 Renowned statistician, author and academic Spiegelhalter, in a lengthy attempt to draw conclusions regarding human sexuality from what seems endless sources, wisely notes here that statistics are a perennially...
by Dave Bradley | Apr 29, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Katie Blackburn and Sholto Walker (Faber) 2015, unnumbered pages, $19.99 Writer Blackburn and illustrator Walker’s brisk but lovely kiddie book cheekily borrows the basic plot of the late lamented Maurice Sendak’s classic Where The Wild Things Are, gives it a...
by Dave Bradley | Apr 29, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Susan Crawford (Faber) 2015, 303pp, RRP $29.99 Crawford’s début novel is an attempt at a page-turning psychodramatic thriller seen from the perspective of a protagonist we can’t truly trust (like Before I Go To Sleep), and while it’s goofily readable enough there are...
by Lynette Washington | Mar 28, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Priya Parmar (Bloomsbury) 2015, 352pp, RRP $29.99 Vanessa Stephen, her sister Virginia and their brothers Thoby and Adrian are bereft at the death of their beloved father soon after their mother passed away. The four siblings take up residency in the questionable...