by Dave Bradley | Aug 24, 2022 | Book, Books, Reviews
Conspiracy: A History Of Bollocks Theories , And How Not To Fall For Them Tom Phillips and Jonn Elledge (Hachette Australia: Wildfire) 2022, 373pp, RRP $32.99 (paperback); $39.99 (audiobook); $15.99 (e-book) Phillips and Elledge’s seriously comprehensive study of...
by Dave Bradley | Aug 24, 2022 | Book, Books, Reviews
[BOOK REVIEW] Victoria Selman (Hachette Australia: Quercus) 2022, 384p, RRP $32.99 (paperback); $45.00 (hardback); $15.99 (e-book); $39.99 (audiobook) Selman’s tricky psychodramatic thriller has one of those plots that’s so deliberately structured that it almost gasps...
by Dave Bradley | Aug 24, 2022 | Book, Books, Reviews
[BOOK REVIEW] Selma Blair (Hachette Australia: Virago) 2022, 301pp, RRP $32.99 (paperback); $59.99 (hardback); $35.99 (audiobook) Blair’s autobiography is warm yet harsh and related with a candour that could be disturbing for anyone who only knows her from 1999’s...
by Dave Bradley | Aug 24, 2022 | Book, Books, Reviews
[BOOK REVIEW] Allie Reynolds (Hachette Australia) 2022, 408pp, RRP $32.99 (paperback); $34.99 (audiobook); $12.99 (e-book) The Queensland-residing Reynolds’ follow-up to her flawed début Shiver is more assured, stronger and tenser, with a cool sense of threat...
by Dave Bradley | Jun 21, 2022 | Book, Books, Reviews
[BOOK REVIEW ~ AUS] Viola Davis (Hachette Australia: Coronet) 2022, 291pp, RRP $55.00 (hardback); $32.99 (paperback); $15.99 (e-Book) The Oscar, Emmy and Tony-winning Davis’ autobiography is rough, even brutal, and so unflinching that it’s, at times, pretty hard to...