by Lynette Washington | Aug 24, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Sean Michaels (Bloomsbury) 2015, 347pp, RRP $19.99 Leon Termen is a scientific genius. Among many other things, he invented the Theremin, a musical instrument unlike any other. In the 1920s he leaves his homeland Russia to, ostensibly, promote his instrument in the...
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...
by Dave Bradley | Mar 26, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Bill Oddie (Bloomsbury Academic & Professional) 2015, 224pp, RRP $35.00 Oddie, the prickliest Goody and a famed ornithologist, environmentalist and general nature-celebrating sort, here collects a series of his assorted writings for magazines, blogs and more from...
by Dave Bradley | Jan 23, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Sort of by Jimi Hendrix and edited by Alan Douglas and Peter Neal (Bloomsbury) 2014, 205pp, RRP $19.99 Certain diehard Hendrix fans blindly love this first-published-in-2013 work ostensibly by the mysterious Jimi (1942 – 1970), but it isn’t an autobiography...
by Catherine Blanch | Oct 27, 2014 | Books, Children's Books, Reviews
Claire Freedman and Sue Hendra (Bloomsbury) 2014, 32pp, RRP $15.99 Max is having a birthday party – a Monster birthday party – and is inviting all his friends to play. This is an absolute dream party for all types of children – human and non-human; filled with sticky,...