by Jenny Thompson | Jan 7, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Tony Kirkwood (Constable & Robinson) 2014, 194pp, RRP $19.99 Now is a great time to be a comedy writer, according to Tony Kirkwood. Even better, you don’t even have to be funny all the time – you just have to be persistent and have lots of belief and be committed...
by Jenny Thompson | Dec 18, 2014 | Books, Reviews
Sophie King (Murdoch Books/Constable & Robinson) 2014, 128pp, RRP $24.99 The real secret to writing a novel is just doing it. So, reading a book about writing a novel isn’t going to help… or is it? Actually, novelist and lecturer Sophie King’s book How To Write...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 10, 2014 | Books, Reviews
THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF CULT COMICS: Lost Classics From Underground Independent Comic Strip Art Edited by Ilya, (Constable & Robinson) 2014, 448pp, RRP $24.99 Ilya’s boffo collection of key examples of whatever you might care to call them (‘cult comics’, cult comix’,...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 10, 2014 | Books, Reviews
Edited by Ilya, (Constable & Robinson) 2014, 446pp, RRP $29.99 Ilya’s gorgeously glossy volume opens with a discussion about what it is that makes images of the human skull so universally popular and then gathers together a huge assortment of diverse, bizarre and...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 29, 2014 | Books, Reviews
Simon P. Clark (Constable & Robinson) 2014, 197pp, RRP $19.99 It’s interesting that Clark’s strange, sparsely-illustrated, impressively unsettling is-it-a-children’s-book-or-not? offering comes with a promotional quote from David Almond, author of Skellig, as Eren...
