by Dave Bradley | Sep 6, 2021 | Books, Reviews
Stephen King (Hachette Australia) 2021, 432pp, RRP $32.99 King’s latest blockbuster (coming hot on the heels of last year’s novella collection If It Bleeds and then Later, which was actually from another publisher – oops!), this is a 99.9% supernatural-free character...
by Dave Bradley | Jun 8, 2021 | Book, Books, Reviews
[BOOK REVIEW] Billie Eilish (Hachette Australia) 2021, 236pp, RRP $45.00 There’s some debate about whether this big, glossy tome is called Billie Eilish, By – Billie Eilish or Billie Eilish By Billie Eilish but, at any rate, this should prove a must-have for fans of...
by Dave Bradley | Jun 8, 2021 | Book, Books, Reviews
[BOOK REVIEW] Phoebe Wynne (Hachette Australia) 2021, 439pp, RRP $32.99 Former academic Wynne’s epic is too long at 439 pages and, like many first novels (and quite a few second and third novels too), could have done with a ruthless edit. And yet there’s still enough...
by Dave Bradley | Jun 8, 2021 | Book, Books, Reviews
[Book Review] Seth Rogen (Hachette Australia) 2021, 260pp, RRP $32.99 Rogen’s handsome tome isn’t a strict autobiography but, instead, proves to be a series of non-chronological, fondly-felt, energetically (and sometimes ingeniously) foul-mouthed and typically...
by Dave Bradley | Apr 19, 2021 | Books, Reviews
[BOOK REVIEW] Marita Bullock and Joan-Maree Hargreaves (Hachette Australia) 2021, 57pp, RRP $29.99 Bullock, Hargreaves and illustrator Liz Rowland’s lovely tome is short and sweet, and although apparently intended for children it’s, nevertheless, surely appealing...