by Dave Bradley | Aug 1, 2018 | Books, Reviews
Viv Albertine (Faber) 2018, 292pp, RRP $39.99 (hardback), $29.99 (paperback) Former punk-as Slits member Albertine’s previous autobiographical work, the memorably-titled Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys, was primarily about her wild...
by Dave Bradley | Jun 27, 2017 | Book, Books, Reviews
François Truffaut (Faber) 2017, 367pp, RRP $39.99 First published in 1966 and mostly drawn from a series of interviews conducted in 1962 (with help from a hard-working interpreter), this often-reprinted-and-revised tome is one of the key works of cinematic literature...
by Dave Bradley | Apr 4, 2017 | Books, Reviews
Peter Swanson (Faber) 2016, 333pp, RRP $29.99 Swanson’s knack for character-based psychodrama doesn’t desert him in this, his third novel after The Girl With A Clock For A Heart and The Kind Worth Killing, and even though this somewhat surprisingly (no spoilers...
by Dave Bradley | Aug 24, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Hanif Kureishi (Faber), 2015, 219pp, RRP $27.99 The unreliable Kureishi’s latest combines short stories, odd essays on pet subjects and autobiographical pieces on sometimes minor topics, and they’re a mixed bag indeed. Opening with the memorably disturbing fiction of...
by Dave Bradley | May 10, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Richard King (Faber & Faber) 2015, 252pp, RRP $35.00 King’s memoir of an early ‘90s time when he was a regular customer of indie record shop Revolver in Bristol and, later, an employee, seeks to evoke a whole recently-lost period before the internet and Amazon and...
