by The Clothesline | Mar 14, 2024 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2024, Comedy, Featured, Reviews
[Comedy • Horror United Kingdom • Australian Premiere] The Gallery at The Courtyard of Curiosities at the Migration Museum, Wed 13 Mar, 2024. Elf Lyons tells us that one of the inspirations for this show is that she absolutely loves reading Stephen King...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 1, 2022 | Book, Books, Reviews
[BOOK REVIEW] Stephen King (Hachette Australia: Hodder & Stoughton) 2022, 608pp, RRP $32.99 (paperback); $59.99 (hardback); $44.99 (audiobook) King’s latest doorstep of a novel is, like all his books nowadays, too long and overwritten, and yet while his tomes of...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 1, 2022 | Book, Books, Reviews
[BOOK REVIEW] C.A. Fletcher (Hachette Australia: Orbit) 2022, 501pp, RRP $49.99 (hardback); $32.99 (paperback); $15.99 (e-Book); $39.99 (audiobook) Fletcher’s follow-up to A Boy And His Dog At The End Of The World is more epic at 501 pages, which allows plenty of room...
by Dave Bradley | Sep 6, 2021 | Books, Reviews
Stephen King (Hachette Australia) 2021, 432pp, RRP $32.99 King’s latest blockbuster (coming hot on the heels of last year’s novella collection If It Bleeds and then Later, which was actually from another publisher – oops!), this is a 99.9% supernatural-free character...
by Dave Bradley | Apr 19, 2021 | Books, Reviews
[BOOK REVIEW] Allie Reynolds (Hachette Australia) 2021, 425pp, RP $32.99 This first novel by Reynolds, a former professional freestyle snowboarder, unsurprisingly features characters who engage in the sport an awful lot, and every time we try to get close to them or...