by Dave Bradley | Nov 17, 2020 | Book, Books, Music, Reviews
Lenny Kravitz (with David Ritz) (Hachette Australia) 2020, 260pp, RRP $32.99 paperback, $15.99 eBook. Longtime chart-topper Kravitz’s autobiography is pleasantly written and yet, somehow, his life story feels just a little uneventful, something not helped by the fact...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 4, 2020 | Book, Books, Reviews
Rupert Everett (Hachette Australia) 2020, 337pp, RRP $34.99 (paperback) Actor, author, memoirist, singer and screenwriter Rupert Everett’s third autobiographical volume is mostly an account of the tortuously extended production of his last-days-of-Oscar-Wilde biopic...
by Dave Bradley | Oct 5, 2020 | Book, Books, Reviews
Alan Davies (Hachette Australia) 2020, 272pp, RRP paperback $32.99 eBook $14.99 Writer, actor, wit, perennial QI panellist and Jonathan Creek himself, the beloved Alan Davies’ latest volume is a proper memoir, although this isn’t the fun, lightly melancholic read...
by Dave Bradley | Aug 17, 2020 | Book, Books, Reviews
T.W. Ellis (Hachette Australia) 2020, 374pp, RRP: Paperback $29.99 T.W. Ellis – a.k.a. Tom Wood, creator of the popular ‘Victor novels’ – here offers his first standalone psychological thriller, and it’s very readable, despite more than a few glimmers of absurdity....
by Dave Bradley | Aug 17, 2020 | Book, Books, Reviews
Stuart Coupe (Hachette Australia) 2020, pp, paperback $32.99, Ebook $14.99 Journalist/author/broadcaster/et cetera Coupe’s attempt to tell the life story of Australian National Treasure Paul Kelly seems a strange choice, at first, given that Kelly himself wrote a...