Billy Connolly (Hachette Australia: Two Roads) 2021, 389pp, RRP $49.99 (hardback); $19.99 (e-Book); $46.99 (audiobook). Sir Billy’s proper autobiography (his Tall Tales And Wee Stories three years ago was just...
Billy Connolly (Hachette Australia: Two Roads) 2021, 389pp, RRP $49.99 (hardback); $19.99 (e-Book); $46.99 (audiobook). Sir Billy’s proper autobiography (his Tall Tales And Wee Stories three years ago was just...
Jamie Foxx (Hachette Australia: Constable) 2021, 221pp, RRP $32.99 (paperback); $49.99 (hardback); $15.99 (e-Book) Comedian, muso and Oscar-winning actor Foxx’s first volume of autobiography is constructed...
ASTERIX AND THE GRIFFIN Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad (Hachette Australia) 2021, 48pp, RRP $29.99 The 39th Asterix book (or ‘album’), and the first published since the death of the series’ original...
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,...
[BOOK ~ AUS] by Natasha Pearce. With his debut novel, The Miscreants, Christopher Hawkes follows two brothers into a precarious adulthood that is charged with wreckage, risk and volatility. Hawkes has said...
[BOOK REVIEW] Billie Eilish (Hachette Australia) 2021, 236pp, RRP $45.00 There’s some debate about whether this big, glossy tome is called Billie Eilish, By – Billie Eilish or Billie Eilish By Billie...
[BOOK REVIEW] Phoebe Wynne (Hachette Australia) 2021, 439pp, RRP $32.99 Former academic Wynne’s epic is too long at 439 pages and, like many first novels (and quite a few second and third novels too),...
[Book Review] Seth Rogen (Hachette Australia) 2021, 260pp, RRP $32.99 Rogen’s handsome tome isn’t a strict autobiography but, instead, proves to be a series of non-chronological, fondly-felt, energetically...
Alex Frayne (Wakefield Press) 2020/2021, 214pp, RRP $75.00 Adelaidean Frayne’s third book (after Adelaide Noir and Theatre Of Life, both also published by Wakefield Press) mainly moves beyond the more...
LAST ONE AT THE PARTY Bethany Clift (Hachette Australia) 2021, 355pp, RRP $32.99 Film school grad, production company director and now first-time-novelist Clift’s book is another entry in the overcrowded...