4 Dec 2015
WOULD I LIE TO YOU? PRESENTS THE 100* MOST POPULAR LIES OF ALL TIME – Book Review
Peter Holmes, Ben Caudell and Saul Wordsworth, with interjections from Rob Brydon, Lee Mack and David Mitchell (Faber) 2015, 339pp, RRP $27.99
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12 Nov 2015
A GAME FOR ALL THE FAMILY: Secrets Kept So Dangerously Close To Home – Book Review
Hannah, a popular author of psychodramatic thrillers, here spins a surprisingly epic tale of very English domestic/suburban mystery and unease.
12 Nov 2015
BREAM GIVES ME HICCUPS & OTHER STORIES: A Collection Of Dark, Neurotically Funny Pieces From Jesse Eisenberg – Book Review
Eisenberg, star of Zombieland , The Social Network , Now You See Me and more, has also written regularly for the New Yorker , and this collection of his dark…
12 Nov 2015
COBAIN: MONTAGE OF HECK – Lamenting The Loss Of A Great Mucisian And Brilliant Artist – Book Review
Brett Morgen With Richard Bienstock (Hachette Australia) 2015, 157pp, RRP $39.99
12 Nov 2015
Slade House: Chilling And Inventive, The Familiar David Mitchell Universe Takes A Further Twist – Book Review
Fans of David Mitchell will be thrilled to know that Slade House occupies the same bizarre world as his other acclaimed novels The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas.…
12 Nov 2015
THE WOMAN IN BLACK AND OTHER GHOST STORIES From Crime Novelist And Short Story Writer Susan Hill – Book Review
Although Hill has written crime novels, short stories and non-fiction, it’s her work as a creator of ghost stories that has guaranteed her fame, and while this…
10 Nov 2015
TRUTHS, HALF TRUTHS & LITTLE WHITE LIES: A MEMOIR By Nick Frost – Book Review
Originally, it seems, written by Frost under the unbowdlerised title Truths, Half Truths And Utter Bullshit , this memoir by the 40something Nick (and yes, he…
29 Oct 2015
An Interview With Andrew P. Street, Author Of The Short And Excruciatingly Embarrassing Reign Of Captain Abbott
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…
20 Oct 2015
The Heart Goes Last: A Social Experiment With A Sinister Twist – Book Review
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…
11 Oct 2015
GILLIAMESQUE: A PRE-POSTHUMOUS MEMOIR – The Life Of “Python” – Book Review
The five surviving members of Monty Python are all in their mid-70s now, and Gilliam (the animator, only American and most rarely-seen of the sextet) states…
11 Oct 2015
THE CINEMA OF CHRISTOPHER NOLAN: IMAGINING THE IMPOSSIBLE – Book Review
Edited by Jacqueline Furby and Stuart Joy (Footprint) 2015, 274pp, RRP $57.95
4 Oct 2015
THE HOLLOW OF THE HAND: Pictures And Words In The Turmoil Of Our Time – Book Review
Kosovo. Afghanistan. Washington DC. Singer, songwriter and poet PJ Harvey and photographer and filmmaker Seamus Murphy visited these places between 2011 and…