18 May 2020
RESISTANCE by Tori Amos: Not So Silent All These Years ~ Hachette Australia Book Review
Tori Amos (Hachette Australia) 2020, 261pp, Hardback $35.00/eBook $14.99
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31 Mar 2020
THE HOLDOUT: One Jury Member Changed The Verdict. What If She Was Wrong? ~ Book Review
Graham Moore (Hachette Australia) 2020, 322pp, paperback $32.99, eBook $14.99.
9 Jan 2020
TALL TALES AND WEE STORIES by Billy Connolly: Yin And Yang ~ Book Review
Billy Connolly (Hachette Australia) 2019, 330pp, RRP $45.00 (hardback)
19 Dec 2019
TWO RIDERS WERE APPROACHING: THE LIFE & DEATH OF JIMI HENDRIX by Mick Wall: Acting Funny, But I Don’t Know Why… ~ Book Review
Indefatigable rock and roll biographer Wall has previously turned out very readable but somewhat conventional books upon Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, Black…
20 Nov 2019
Acid For The Children by Flea: Smoke It Away, Smoke It Away, Smoke It Away Now… ~ Book Review
Flea, a.k.a. Michael Peter Balzary, Australian-American actor and a founding member of The Red Hot Chili Peppers, begins this volume of autobiography with an…
20 Nov 2019
STONED ~ Photographs & Treasures From Life With The Rolling Stones: Access All Areas (So To Speak) ~ Book Review
Jo (Josephine) Wood (née Karslake), model, entrepreneur, author, TV type and dancer (sort of), here offers another book about her life as missus to Rolling…
13 Nov 2019
ELTON JOHN – THE DEFINITIVE PORTRAIT, WITH UNSEEN IMAGES: Looking Like A True Survivor, Feeling Like A Little Kid ~ Book Review.
A key photographer of many and varied icons (including various Beatles, Rolling Stones and Royals, as well as his once-wife Faye Dunaway, Judy Garland and even…
6 Oct 2019
THE INSTITUTE by Stephen King: We All Shine On ~ Book Review
The indefatigable King’s latest is yet another doorstop of a book which, despite a vaguely odd structure and the need (once again) for a bit of an edit, proves…
1 Oct 2019
BORN TO FLY by Beverley McWillams & Timothy Ide: Harry Butler Was Born To Fly ~ Book Review
Beverley McWilliams, Illustrated by Timothy Ide (MidnightSun Publishing) 2019, 32pp, RRP $29.99.
3 Sept 2019
CURIOUS RECOLLECTIONS – LIFE IN THE CURIOSITY SHOW by Rob Morrison ~ Book Review
Academic, writer, broadcaster, muso and Adelaidean Morrison’s memoir is structured as a pleasingly non-chronological series of reminisces, many of which revolve…
22 Mar 2019
THE SILENT PATIENT by Alex Michaelides: Doctor, Doctor, Gimme The News ~ Hachette Book Review
Alex Michaelides (Hachette Australia) 2018, 341pp, paperback RRP $29.99, Ebook RRP $14.99.
22 Mar 2019
ZEALOT – A BOOK ABOUT CULTS by Jo Thornely: I Love The Leader!!!! ~ Hachette Book Review
Aussie author, journalist, podcaster and cult expert Thornely’s page-turner study could have been grim indeed, but she’s so funny that you can grin and bear…