by Dave Bradley | Jul 1, 2019 | Books, Reviews
Clare Mackintosh (Hachette Australia) 2019. 374pp, RRP $32.99 (paperback), $39.99 (hardback). Mackintosh’s popular former books (I Let You Go, I See You, Let Me Lie) are psychodramatic suspense tales, but her latest is a far more emotionally human piece drawn,...
by Dave Bradley | Jul 1, 2019 | Books, Reviews
Adrian McKinty (Hachette Australia) 2019, 357pp, RRP $32.99, eBook $14.99 Written by the prolific McKinty as a deliberate attempt to break into the American literary market (he pretty much admits to it in the ‘Afterword And Acknowledgements’ at the end), this mostly...
by Dave Bradley | Jun 20, 2019 | Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2019, Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Reviews, Spoken Word
[ADELAIDE PREMIERE ~ ADELAIDE EXCLUSIVE ~ UK ~ IF YOU LOVE… A CURVE BALL] Dunstan Playhouse, Wed 19 Jun. In one of the quieter, more pensive moments of Dickie Beau’s show he smiled at a guy at the front and quipped, “And you thought you were seeing a cabaret show!”,...
by Dave Bradley | May 24, 2019 | Books, Reviews
C.A. Fletcher (Hachette Australia) 2019, 365pp, RRP $32.99 The first book by Scottish author Fletcher is a slightly odd read, mainly because our protagonist Griz is so unreliable and uses a curiously awkward voice that occasionally helps smooth over Fletcher’s own...
by Dave Bradley | May 20, 2019 | DVDs, Reviews
Defiant Screen Entertainment, Rated MA Originally and blandly called Keepers but now with a title change sure to get it confused with the 1988 Dutch pic of the same name (a.k.a. Spoorloos) and its appalling American remake, this psychodrama from director Kristoffer...