by Dave Bradley | Apr 19, 2021 | Books, Reviews
[BOOK REVIEW] Allie Reynolds (Hachette Australia) 2021, 425pp, RP $32.99 This first novel by Reynolds, a former professional freestyle snowboarder, unsurprisingly features characters who engage in the sport an awful lot, and every time we try to get close to them or...
by Dave Bradley | Apr 19, 2021 | Books, Reviews
[BOOK REVIEW] Dr. Brad McKay (Hachette Australia) 2021, 290pp, RRP $32.99 McKay, an Aussie ‘science communicator’, TV host and Sydney GP, devotes his first book to uncovering many medical crazes and cons (as its subtitle suggest), but what could have been a dry,...
by Dave Bradley | Feb 12, 2021 | Book, Books, Reviews
LAST ONE AT THE PARTY Bethany Clift (Hachette Australia) 2021, 355pp, RRP $32.99 Film school grad, production company director and now first-time-novelist Clift’s book is another entry in the overcrowded apocalypse genre, and yet there’s a curiously English sense of...
by Dave Bradley | Jan 21, 2021 | Book, Books, Reviews
Fiona O’Loughlin (Hachette Australia) 2020, 309pp, RRP $32.99 O’Loughlin’s second autobiographical volume after 2011’s Me Of The Never Never, this is a far different and less amusing affair because it’s all about the author’s realisation that she’s an alcoholic and...
by Dave Bradley | Jan 21, 2021 | Book, Books, Reviews
SENIOR MOMENTS: THE COMPLETE GUIDE ON HOW TO BE SENIOR Angus FitzSimons (Hachette Australia) 2020, 224pp, RRP $29.99 FitzSimons’ volume is darkly amusing whether you’re a senior or perhaps well on the way, and yet in large doses it does get rather depressing....