by Dave Bradley | Aug 24, 2022 | Book, Books, Reviews
[BOOK REVIEW] Victoria Selman (Hachette Australia: Quercus) 2022, 384p, RRP $32.99 (paperback); $45.00 (hardback); $15.99 (e-book); $39.99 (audiobook) Selman’s tricky psychodramatic thriller has one of those plots that’s so deliberately structured that it almost gasps...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 21, 2021 | Book, Books, Reviews
Jimmy Carr (Hachette Australia: Quercus) 2021, 358pp, RRP $32.99 (paperback); $45.00 (hardback) UK TV perennial Carr’s supposed autobiography is actually an attempt to combine bitingly comedic memoir, a how-to guide to being funny and a sort of pseudo-self-help book,...
by Dave Bradley | Aug 23, 2017 | Book, Books, Reviews
Linda Green (Quercus) 2017, 429pp, RRP $29.99 Green’s follow-up to her While My Eyes Were Closed was partly inspired by true stories of domestic violence, and while this has a supernatural/fantastical edge which is never really explained, it remains an often...
by Jenny Thompson | Jan 7, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Simon Sebag Montefiore (Quercus/Hachette Australia) 2014, 272pp, RRP $36.99 You can’t help but notice that the majority of speeches included in this book are made by middle-class white men. This doesn’t particularly mark out the proclivities of Editor Simon...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 17, 2014 | Books, Reviews
Philip Taffs (Quercus/Hachette Australia) 2014, 311pp, RRP $19.99 Melbourne-based copywriter and short story writer Taffs’ first novel is a pleasingly nasty psychodramatic horror tale set early in the 21st Century which manages a few cool twists – provided you...
