by Dave Bradley | Feb 12, 2021 | Book, Books, Reviews
Alex Frayne (Wakefield Press) 2020/2021, 214pp, RRP $75.00 Adelaidean Frayne’s third book (after Adelaide Noir and Theatre Of Life, both also published by Wakefield Press) mainly moves beyond the more urban locales of his previous tomes to spots further out into the...
by Dave Bradley | Feb 12, 2021 | Book, Books, Reviews
LAST ONE AT THE PARTY Bethany Clift (Hachette Australia) 2021, 355pp, RRP $32.99 Film school grad, production company director and now first-time-novelist Clift’s book is another entry in the overcrowded apocalypse genre, and yet there’s a curiously English sense of...
by Dave Bradley | Jan 21, 2021 | Book, Books, Reviews
Fiona O’Loughlin (Hachette Australia) 2020, 309pp, RRP $32.99 O’Loughlin’s second autobiographical volume after 2011’s Me Of The Never Never, this is a far different and less amusing affair because it’s all about the author’s realisation that she’s an alcoholic and...
by Dave Bradley | Jan 21, 2021 | Book, Books, Reviews
SENIOR MOMENTS: THE COMPLETE GUIDE ON HOW TO BE SENIOR Angus FitzSimons (Hachette Australia) 2020, 224pp, RRP $29.99 FitzSimons’ volume is darkly amusing whether you’re a senior or perhaps well on the way, and yet in large doses it does get rather depressing....
by Dave Bradley | Nov 17, 2020 | Book, Books, Music, Reviews
Lenny Kravitz (with David Ritz) (Hachette Australia) 2020, 260pp, RRP $32.99 paperback, $15.99 eBook. Longtime chart-topper Kravitz’s autobiography is pleasantly written and yet, somehow, his life story feels just a little uneventful, something not helped by the fact...