by Dave Bradley | Nov 30, 2014 | Books, Reviews
Michael Leunig [Introduced by Barry Humphries] (Penguin Books Australia) 2014, 128pp, RRP $24.99 [Hardback] Originally published in 1974 (just in case you hadn’t worked that out for yourself), this anniversary reprint of one of the first Leunig collections, complete...
by Jenny Thompson | Nov 20, 2014 | Books, Reviews
Jennifer Lopez (Penguin) 2014, 276pp, RRP $29.99 Many people would just write Jennifer Lopez off as a diva with a string of divorces. But there’s so much more to her than tabloid tall tales – as her autobiography reveals. I’ve always suspected that she’s been...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 6, 2014 | Books, Reviews
Simon Griffiths (Lantern) 2014, 232pp, RRP $39.99 Photographer Griffiths’ follow-up to the popular Shack is a glossy collection of shots of the peculiarly Aussie shed, and is divided into five sections that group the sheds in question into their practical uses and...
by Catherine Blanch | Oct 28, 2014 | Books, Reviews
Tom Ang (Dorling Kindersley) 2014, 400pp, RRP $49.99 More than just a collection of photographs from a lifetime since the dawn of the camera, this encyclopaedic tome really is the definitive visual history of life captured in still shots. Auckland’s Tom Ang has...
by Dave Bradley | Oct 7, 2014 | Books, Reviews
Lily Brett [Hamish Hamilton/Penguin] 2014, 213pp, RRP $29.99 Brett’s latest, a 42-strong collection of short stories (or sometimes near-anecdotes or even jokes), is being touted as a loving tribute to the city she’s called home for almost 30 years, and while, at...
