by Dave Bradley | Dec 4, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon (Black Dog & Leventhal) 2015, 703pp, RRP $60.00 While there have been formidable books studying the prolific output of the great and oh-so-difficult Bob Dylan before (such as Dylan: Disc By Disc earlier this year),...
by Dave Bradley | Aug 24, 2015 | Books, Reviews
“by Lindt” (Quarto Group UK) 2015, 54pp, RRP $16.99 Seemingly designed and penned by Lindt types, this attractive, Lindt-block-shaped cookbook has much to tempt the chocolate obsessive, provided they can be bothered to prepare and/or cook an actual dish and don’t...
by Dave Bradley | Jun 23, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Elizabeth Knox (Corsair) 2015, 445pp, RRP $29.99 The Wellington-residing and fairly prolific Knox’s latest offering has its familiar aspects, and yet it’s nevertheless pretty damn creepy at first – until the secret of the supernatural danger becomes apparent,...
by Dave Bradley | Mar 26, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Bill Price (Murdoch Books) 2015, 256pp, RRP $29.99 The latest in an ongoing series of glossy volumes dedicated to studying ‘History’s Best/Worst/Greatest…’ (mysteries, wars and so forth), Price’s straightforward study of the worst crimes ever (a subjective thing,...
by Jenny Thompson | Jan 7, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Tony Kirkwood (Constable & Robinson) 2014, 194pp, RRP $19.99 Now is a great time to be a comedy writer, according to Tony Kirkwood. Even better, you don’t even have to be funny all the time – you just have to be persistent and have lots of belief and be committed...
