23 Aug 2017
FRIEND REQUEST: Facebook Gets Creepy (Or Creepier) – Book Review
Kent-based first-time author Marshall’s psychothriller is a compelling read and intriguing on several levels: it’s yet another creepy character piece that uses…
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27 June 2017
HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT ~ REVISED EDITION: The Greatest Movie Book Ever? – Book Review
First published in 1966 and mostly drawn from a series of interviews conducted in 1962 (with help from a hard-working interpreter), this…
27 June 2017
WHO I AM: A Mysterious Star’s Strange Memoir – Book Review
Charlotte Rampling with Christophe Bataille (Icon) 2017, 112pp, RRP $24.99
1 June 2017
SKITTER: Ezekiel Boone’s Creepy Follow-Up To The Hatching. Arachnophobics Beware! – Book Review
Boone’s follow-up to last year’s The Hatching is equally readable, equally disturbing (especially for arachnophobics) and, it must be said, equally prone to…
4 Apr 2017
ALIENS – SCIENCE ASKS: IS THERE ANYONE OUT THERE? – Book Review
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…
4 Apr 2017
HER EVERY FEAR: A New Start… Or A Perfect Nightmare? – Book Review
Swanson’s knack for character-based psychodrama doesn’t desert him in this, his third novel after The Girl With A Clock For A Heart and The Kind Worth Killing…
4 Apr 2017
THE GIRL BEFORE: Everything That’s Yours Was Once Hers – Book Review
This enjoyable page-turner from Delany (a pseudonym for a fiction writer and adman who needn’t be ashamed) has a coolly tricky structure, a few sweet twists and…
26 Nov 2016
AH WELL, NOBODY’S PERFECT ~ THE UNTOLD STORIES: The follow-up to Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum autobiography “The Never, Um, Ending Story”, by Molly with Jeff Jenkins – Book Review
Molly (Meldrum) with Jeff Jenkins (Allen & Unwin) 2016, 482pp, RRP $34.99
26 Nov 2016
MOUNT BUGGERY TO NOWHERE ELSE: THE STORIES BEHIND AUSTRALIA’S WEIRD AND WONDERFUL PLACE NAMES by Eamon Evans – Book Review
Author, blogger and general wit Evans’ latest book continues with his funny interest in weird Australiana (check out his previous offering, Great Australian…
26 Nov 2016
THE TWENTY-THREE by Linwood Barclay: Murder. It’s A Numbers Game – Book Review
The final book in Barclay’s ‘Promise Falls Trilogy’ follows on from Broken Promise and Far From True and features all the characters you’ve come to know and…
26 Oct 2016
WORKING CLASS BOY by Jimmy Barnes: A Memoir Of Running Away – Book Review
Dead-set Aussie Legend Jimmy’s – sorry, Barnesy’s – autobiographical volume is the first of a projected pair, and therefore fans of Cold Chisel and his beloved…
3 Aug 2016
CRIME SCENES – Edited by Zane Lovitt: Leave Your Preconceptions At The Door And Dive Into Perfect Suspense – Book Review
Spineless Wonders are again proving themselves to be one of the most exciting and innovative publishers in Australia, and the Crime Scenes story collection is…