by Dave Bradley | Jan 15, 2018 | Book, Books, Reviews
Noah Isenberg (Faber) 2017, 334pp, RRP $49.99 As the years roll by so many movies fade into obscurity, and yet somehow Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca (1942) remains untouchably beloved, and Isenberg here attempts, at great, often delicious length, to find out why. Using...
by Dave Bradley | Jan 20, 2016 | Books, Reviews
David Cavanagh (Faber) 2015, 620pp, RRP $45.00 The cover of Cavanagh’s formidable tome comes with fond raves about beloved DJ, radio broadcaster, journalist and all-round-good-egg John Peel (1939 – 2004) from Jack White, Johnny Marr, Elvis Costello, Elton John,...
by Dave Bradley | Jan 19, 2016 | Books, Reviews
John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin (Faber) 2015, 331pp, RRP $22.99 Yet another compendium of amazingly amazing facts (coming after previous tomes that have promised to knock our socks off, knock us sideways and make our jaws drop), this enjoyable tie-in with...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 4, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Peter Holmes, Ben Caudell and Saul Wordsworth, with interjections from Rob Brydon, Lee Mack and David Mitchell (Faber) 2015, 339pp, RRP $27.99 Although not quite in the spirit of the TV show (which is huge in the UK but never caught on here in the same way), this...
by Dave Bradley | Jul 21, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Stefan Spjut (Faber) 2015, 587pp, RRP $29.99 It’s fitting that Spjut’s novel concerns giants, as his book, at almost 600 pages, is a giant itself, and while there have been elaborate comparisons drawn between this and the similarly Swedish Let The Right One In (Låt...
