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.
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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…
4 Nov 2019
THE LAND BELONGS TO ME by Alys Jackson and Shane McGrath: Trouble Afoot On The Farm ~ Book Review
Written by Alys Jackson and Illustrated by Shane McGrath (Big Sky Publishing) 2019, pp32, RRP $14.99
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…
2 Sept 2019
THE PERFECT WIFE by JP Delaney: The Ghost In The Machine ~ Book Review
The pseudonymous Delaney’s next trick after The Girl Before and Believe Me is another twisty psychological thriller, albeit one with lots of thorny themes…
1 July 2019
ACROSS THE VOID: The Space Between Us ~ Book Review
S.K. Vaughn (Sphere) 2019, 469pp. RRP $32.99 (paperback), $39.99 (hardback), $16.99 (e-Book).