by Dave Bradley | May 6, 2022 | Book, Books, Reviews
Jonathan Biggins (Hachette Australia) 2022, 198pp, RRP $24.99 (hardback); $12.99 (e-Book) Biggins’ book is in two parts: the first is his stage show converted to text, and the second explains how it came to be, the issues involved in telling the life story of a man...
by Dave Bradley | May 6, 2022 | Book, Books, Reviews
Claire Kohda (Hachette Australia: Virago) 2022, 248pp, RRP $39.99 (hardback); $29.99 (paperback) Kohda’s début novel is a distinctive, if peculiar, tale of a modern vampire, and yet this isn’t a horror story but, instead, a strange combination of Dracula (with deeply...
by Dave Bradley | Mar 9, 2022 | Books, Reviews
Sarah Bonner (Hachette Australia: Hodder Studio) 2022, 329pp, RRP $32.99 (paperback); $45.00 (hardback); $15.99 (e-book) English accountant-turned-author Sarah Bonner’s first novel might seem to be built upon one of the mightiest of horror/thriller clichés – the...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 26, 2021 | Book, Books, Reviews
Brian Cox (Hachette Australia) 2021, 374pp, RRP $34.99 (paperback) Brian Cox (the Scottish character actor, not the star Manchester physicist) here discusses his life in movies, on TV and, mostly, on the stage, and although he has many tales to tell he also feels the...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 26, 2021 | Book, Books, Reviews
Emily Ratajkowski (Hachette Australia) 2021, 239pp, RRP $32.99 (paperback) Model, actress and veteran of Robin Thicke’s now-infamous Blurred Lines video (available in ‘clothed’ and ‘nude’ versions) turns writer with this non-chronological series of autobiographical...