4 Oct 2018
YOU’RE ON AN AIRPLANE: A SELF-MYTHOLOGIZING MEMOIR by Parker Posey: Strike A Pose(y) ~ Book Review
Parker Posey (Hachette Australia) 2018, 307pp, RRP $32.99, hardback RRP $39.99, eBook RRP $14.99
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1 Aug 2018
BELIEVE ME by J.P. Delaney: Madness In The Method ~ Book Review
J.P. Delaney (Hachette Australia) 2018, 388pp, RRP $32.99 (paperback), $14.99 (eBook)
1 Aug 2018
CICADA by Shaun Tan: Modern Life Bugs Me ~ Book Review
Shaun Tan (Lothian) 2018, unnumbered pages, RRP $26.99 (hardback), $13.99 (eBook)
1 Aug 2018
THE FRIGHTENERS: WHY WE LOVE MONSTERS, GHOSTS, DEATH & GORE by Peter Laws: Of Gods And Monsters ~ Book Review
The Bedfordshire-residing Laws is a crime novelist, a massive fan of horror in all its forms (movies, novels, all the dark and frightening stuff in real life)…
1 Aug 2018
TO THROW AWAY UNOPENED by Viv Albertine: Punk’s Not Dead (But It Does Look Decidedly Unwell) ~ Book Review
Viv Albertine (Faber) 2018, 292pp, RRP $39.99 (hardback), $29.99 (paperback)
10 July 2018
PERFECT MATCH by D.B. Thorne: On The Face Of It ~ Book Review
Digital-entrepreneur-turned-author Thorne’s follow-up to the highly-regarded Troll is a psychological thriller that’s just screaming to be the first part of a…
10 July 2018
SEE WHAT CAN BE DONE by Lorrie Moore: In Her Own Write ~ Book Review
The multi-award-winning Moore (a revered short story writer, children’s book author, critic and commentator for decades now) has her key and favourite essays…
10 July 2018
THE OUTSIDER by Stephen King: Making America Scary Again ~ Book Review
Hot on the heels of Sleeping Beauties , King’s similarly-doorstop-like collaboration with his son Owen, comes this rather less long-winded tale which resembles…
31 May 2018
ON MICHAEL JACKSON: Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’? – Book Review
Jefferson’s brisk biography of Michael Jackson didn’t win her the Pulitzer Prize For Criticism (as the cover seems to suggest) but is still fascinating…
25 Apr 2018
HER BODY & OTHER PARTIES: Short But Hardly Sweet – Book Review
Machado has somewhat defied description for some time now, with her writing straddling horror, sci-fi, psychodrama, women’s erotica and ‘queer’ genres, and this…
25 Apr 2018
LET ME LIE: My Mother, Myself – Book Review
North-Wales-based author Mackintosh’s first two novels I Let You Go and I See You demonstrated a knack for paranoid psychological drama and coolly twisty plots…
25 Apr 2018
ONE WAY: Life On Mars… For A While – Book Review
Dr. S.J. Morden a.k.a. Simon Morden is an award-winning author and a bona fide boffin with a degree in Geology, a PhD in Geophysics and a background in teaching…