by Dave Bradley | May 15, 2016 | Books, Reviews
Arlene Heyman (Bloomsbury) 2016, 228pp, RRP $29.99 New Yorker Heyman, acclaimed author, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, here offers seven not-quite-short-stories (40 pages or so is the average) concerning, of course, sex, and yet in actuality her focus here is upon...
by Dave Bradley | May 15, 2016 | Books, Reviews
Alexei Sayle (Bloomsbury) 2016, 324pp, RRP$27.99 Dear old Alexei’s second volume of memoirs after Stalin Ate My Homework (and following on from his acclaimed works of fiction including The Dog Catcher and The Weeping Women Hotel) is a most readable and very funny...
by Lynette Washington | Oct 20, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Margaret Atwood (Bloomsbury) 2015, 306pp, RRP $32.99 In The Heart Goes Last, Margaret Atwood has conceived of a most dire and fantastical world in which economic collapse in the United States has led to a sinister corporation setting up a social experiment. Inside the...
by Lynette Washington | Oct 4, 2015 | Books, Reviews
PJ Harvey and Seamus Murphy (Bloomsbury) 2015, 231pp, RRP $85.00 Kosovo. Afghanistan. Washington DC. Singer, songwriter and poet PJ Harvey and photographer and filmmaker Seamus Murphy visited these places between 2011 and 2014 with their notebook and camera in hand....
by Lynette Washington | Aug 24, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Joanna Rakoff (Bloomsbury) 2015, 503pp, RRP $32.99 Joanna Rakoff was a popular speaker at the 2015 Adelaide Writers’ Week, where she spoke about her excellent memoir, My Salinger Year. Subsequent to the success of her visit, her first novel, A Fortunate Age, was...
