by Dave Bradley | Apr 25, 2018 | Books, Reviews
Carmen Maria Machado (Profile) 2018, 243pp, RRP $24.99 Machado has somewhat defied description for some time now, with her writing straddling horror, sci-fi, psychodrama, women’s erotica and ‘queer’ genres, and this collection of short stories includes examples of all...
by Dave Bradley | Apr 4, 2017 | Books, Reviews
Edited by Jim Al-Khalili (Profile) 2016, 232pp, RRP $19.99 Al-Khalili (OBE), a theoretical physicist, author, broadcaster and know-all, and 20 or so of his most formidably brainy friends and colleagues here ponder some of the biggest and most frustrating questions in...
by Dave Bradley | Mar 30, 2016 | Books, Reviews
David Thomson (Profile Books) 2015, 242pp, RRP $29.99 Thomson’s latest in a seemingly annual series of film-related tomes sounds like it might be a how-to guide for the bases of cinema studies, and yet this actually reads like a most enjoyable bit of everything: a...
by Dave Bradley | Jan 20, 2016 | Books, Reviews
Sophie Hannah (Profile Books) 2015, 106pp, RRP $19.99 Although Hannah is associated with psychological crime fiction and a sort of suburban English noir, this collection of four of her not-quite-short spooky stories demonstrates that she has a gift for the eerily...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 12, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Susan Hill (Profile Books) 2015, 410pp, RRP $29.99 Although Hill has written crime novels, short stories and non-fiction, it’s her work as a creator of ghost stories that has guaranteed her fame, and while this collects her five main supernatural novellas, it’s the...
