by Dave Bradley | Dec 20, 2017 | Book, Books, Reviews
Mick Wall (Hachette Australia), 310pp, RRP $32.99 Rock author Wall is a goddamn writing machine, having turned out biographies on Prince, Lemmy and Guns N’ Roses in less than two years and then followed them up with this, a pretty illuminating study of the life and...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 20, 2017 | Book, Books, Reviews
Joe Hill (Hachette Australia), 432pp, RRP $29.99 On the heels of Hill’s epic apocalyptic novel The Fireman comes this collection of four chunky novellas united (sort of) by the idea of weather, or at least meteorological events we don’t – or can’t –...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 20, 2017 | Book, Books, Reviews
Written by Jean-Yves Ferri and illustrated by Didier Conrad (Orion Children’s Books), 46pp, RRP $24.99 René Goscinny and Albert(o) Uderzo’s names still appear at the top of each new Asterix adventure, even though Goscinny died in 1977, Uderzo wrote the stories solo...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 9, 2017 | Event, Interviews, Pop Culture
by Dave Bradley. Jodelle Ferland was at her home in Vancouver for the following phone interview, and she cheerfully discussed some of her favourite experiences in a long and seriously impressive career (and yes, she only recently turned 23!!!), as well as how much she...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 9, 2017 | Book, Books, Reviews
Christopher Fowler (Hachette Australia) 2017, 374pp, RRP $35.00 The prolific Fowler’s gorgeous latest is a wonderfully witty study of authors who, despite huge sales, trendsetting innovations and major celebrity even only a few decades ago, are now strangely,...