Nick Frost (Hachette Australia) 2015, 314pp, $32.99 Originally, it seems, written by Frost under the unbowdlerised title Truths, Half Truths And Utter Bullshit, this memoir by the 40something Nick (and...
Books /
Interviews /
October 29, 2015
by Dave Bradley. The Adelaide-bred Andrew P. Street, a Fairfax columnist and now first-time-author, took the time to talk with The Clothesline about his book with that wonderfully long title, and the following...
Margaret Atwood (Bloomsbury) 2015, 306pp, RRP $32.99 In The Heart Goes Last, Margaret Atwood has conceived of a most dire and fantastical world in which economic collapse in the United States has led to a sinister...
Terry Gilliam and Ben Thompson (Canongate) 2015, 297pp, RRP $59.99 The five surviving members of Monty Python are all in their mid-70s now, and Gilliam (the animator, only American and most rarely-seen...
Edited by Jacqueline Furby and Stuart Joy (Footprint) 2015, 274pp, RRP $57.95 Furby and Joy’s academic tome is intended to delve into the myriad mysteries that run throughout the films of London-born...
PJ Harvey and Seamus Murphy (Bloomsbury) 2015, 231pp, RRP $85.00 Kosovo. Afghanistan. Washington DC. Singer, songwriter and poet PJ Harvey and photographer and filmmaker Seamus Murphy visited these places...
Fraser McAlpine (Nicholas Brealey) 2015, 360pp, RRP $22.99 The Oxfordshire-born and Cornwall-dwelling McAlpine, the lead writer for BBC Anglophenia (and a specialist in Doctor Who), here offers a lengthy...
Clive James (Footprint), 2015, 180pp, RRP $29.95 Author/critic/memoirist/broadcaster/journalist/translator/you name it James’ latest and perhaps last tome is a collection of essays drawn from his ‘final’...
Joanna Rakoff (Bloomsbury) 2015, 503pp, RRP $32.99 Joanna Rakoff was a popular speaker at the 2015 Adelaide Writers’ Week, where she spoke about her excellent memoir, My Salinger Year. Subsequent to the success...
Sean Michaels (Bloomsbury) 2015, 347pp, RRP $19.99 Leon Termen is a scientific genius. Among many other things, he invented the Theremin, a musical instrument unlike any other. In the 1920s he leaves his homeland...
Page 12 of 27
