6 Sept 2021
BILLY SUMMERS by Stephen King: Shot To The Heart ~ Book Review
King’s latest blockbuster (coming hot on the heels of last year’s novella collection If It Bleeds and then Later , which was actually from another publisher –…
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6 Sept 2021
BLESSED: THE BREAKOUT YEAR OF RAMPAGING ROY SLAVEN: GOAL!!! ~ Book Review
Doyle’s autobiographical outing chronicles what he sees as the big year of his youth: 1967, when things were changing in the small coal town of Lithgow, at the…
6 Sept 2021
THE MONSTER OF HER AGE by Danielle Binks: Tigers Are Not Afraid ~ Book Review
Melbournian Binks’ first YA (Young Adult) novel is more ambitious and moving than the form usually allows, with characters we really care about, a pleasant dose…
8 June 2021
BILLIE EILISH by Billie Eilish Every Picture Tells A Story ~ Book Review
There’s some debate about whether this big, glossy tome is called Billie Eilish , By – Billie Eilish or Billie Eilish By Billie Eilish but, at any rate, this…
8 June 2021
MADAM by Phoebe Wynne: School’s Out!!! ~ Book Review
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), could have done with a ruthless…
8 June 2021
YEARBOOK by Seth Rogen: Ssssmokin’!!! ~ Book Review
Rogen’s handsome tome isn’t a strict autobiography but, instead, proves to be a series of non-chronological, fondly-felt, energetically (and sometimes…
19 Apr 2021
FAKE MEDICINE: EXPOSING THE WELLNESS CRAZES, CONS AND QUACKS COSTING US OUR HEALTH: Doctor, Doctor, Gimme The News… ~ Book Review
McKay, an Aussie ‘science communicator’, TV host and Sydney GP, devotes his first book to uncovering many medical crazes and cons (as its subtitle suggest), but…
19 Apr 2021
SHIVER by Allie Reynolds: Dead Chilly ~ Book Review
This first novel by Reynolds, a former professional freestyle snowboarder, unsurprisingly features characters who engage in the sport an awful lot, and every…
19 Apr 2021
THE BIG BOOK OF FESTIVALS: FANTASTIC FESTIVITIES, CRAZY CELEBRATIONS AND HOLY HOLIDAYS FROM ACROSS THE GLOBE: Rocking All Over The World ~ Book Review
Marita Bullock and Joan-Maree Hargreaves (Hachette Australia) 2021, 57pp, RRP $29.99
12 Feb 2021
LANDSCAPES OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA by Alex Frayne: Her Beauty And Her Terror ~ Wakefield Press Book Review
Adelaidean Frayne’s third book (after Adelaide Noir and Theatre Of Life , both also published by Wakefield Press) mainly moves beyond the more urban locales of…
12 Feb 2021
LAST ONE AT THE PARTY by Bethany Clift: It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Like Hell) ~ Hachette Aust Book Review
Film school grad, production company director and now first-time-novelist Clift’s book is another entry in the overcrowded apocalypse genre, and yet there’s a…
21 Jan 2021
SENIOR MOMENTS by Angus FitzSimons: Get Off My Lawn!!! ~ Hachette Aust. Book Review
FitzSimons’ volume is darkly amusing whether you’re a senior or perhaps well on the way, and yet in large doses it does get rather depressing.