by Dave Bradley | Jan 15, 2018 | Book, Books, Reviews
Tom Lee (Granta) 2017, 153pp, RRP $24.99 A short story writer and academic, Lee’s first (and rather slim) novel is a crisply-written study of the plight of a titular character whom it’s almost impossible to like, which some readers might find odd or off-putting and...
by Dave Bradley | Jan 17, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Will Boast, (Granta) 2015, 281pp, RRP $27.99 Boast’s movingly personal autobiography’s title is taken from his belief that he was an ‘epilogue’ in his family when he lost his mother (brain tumour), brother (car accident) and Dad (perforated ulcer) all within some...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 10, 2014 | Books, Reviews
Frances Larson (Granta) 2014, 317pp, RRP $39.99 Author and Oxford research fellow Larson’s compelling, sometimes gruesomely fascinating book was inspired by her time at the Pitt Rivers Museum, where a bunch of shrunken heads proved very popular (even ‘cool’) and...
