by Dave Bradley | Dec 10, 2021 | Book, Books, Reviews
Inga Simpson (Hachette Australia) 2021, 344pp, RRP $32.99 (paperback) Simpson’s latest tome is certainly familiar (what apocalyptic drama isn’t these days?) and yet, nevertheless, proves surprisingly powerful, moving, disturbing and distinctly Australian in tone....
by Dave Bradley | Dec 10, 2021 | Book, Books, Reviews
Mitch Albom (Hachette Australia: Sphere) 2021, 271pp, RRP $34.99 (hardback) Albom’s newie is, like all of his work, full of sometimes rabidly religious detail (even his most famous novel, Tuesdays With Morrie, isn’t free of them), and yet unbelievers still might be...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 10, 2021 | Book, Books, Reviews
Billy Connolly (Hachette Australia: Two Roads) 2021, 389pp, RRP $49.99 (hardback); $19.99 (e-Book); $46.99 (audiobook). Sir Billy’s proper autobiography (his Tall Tales And Wee Stories three years ago was just a bunch of his favourite jokes) is all over the place in...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 21, 2021 | Book, Books, Reviews
Jamie Foxx (Hachette Australia: Constable) 2021, 221pp, RRP $32.99 (paperback); $49.99 (hardback); $15.99 (e-Book) Comedian, muso and Oscar-winning actor Foxx’s first volume of autobiography is constructed less as a how-I-made-it-in-Hollywood page-turner and more as a...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 21, 2021 | Book, Books, Reviews
ASTERIX AND THE GRIFFIN Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad (Hachette Australia) 2021, 48pp, RRP $29.99 The 39th Asterix book (or ‘album’), and the first published since the death of the series’ original co-creator Albert Uderzo (1927 – 2020), this tries hard to...