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.
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21 Jan 2021
TRUTHS FROM AN UNRELIABLE WITNESS by Fiona O’Loughlin: Where Have All The Good Times Gone? ~ Hachette Aust. Book Review
O’Loughlin’s second autobiographical volume after 2011’s Me Of The Never Never , this is a far different and less amusing affair because it’s all about the…
17 Nov 2020
LET LOVE RULE by Lenny Kravitz w/ David Ritz: Are You Gonna Go His Way… Again? ~ Hachette Aust Book Review
Lenny Kravitz (with David Ritz) (Hachette Australia) 2020, 260pp, RRP $32.99 paperback, $15.99 eBook.
4 Nov 2020
TO THE END OF THE WORLD -TRAVELS WITH OSCAR WILDE by Rupert Everett: The Less-Than-Happy Princess ~ Hachette Aust Book Review
Rupert Everett (Hachette Australia) 2020, 337pp, RRP $34.99 (paperback)
5 Oct 2020
JUST IGNORE HIM by Alan Davies: QD (Quite Disturbing) ~ Hachette Australia Book Review
Alan Davies (Hachette Australia) 2020, 272pp, RRP paperback $32.99 eBook $14.99
9 Sept 2020
Gaslight by Patrick Hamilton: Mystery Most Foul Presented By State Theatre Company South Australia ~ Live Theatre Review
Prompt and friendly COVID marshals ushered us into the new Her Majesty’s Theatre and quietly suggested where we might wait for show time. I wanted to zip around…
17 Aug 2020
A KNOCK AT THE DOOR by T.W. Ellis: Free Agents ~ Hachette Australia Book Review
T.W. Ellis – a.k.a. Tom Wood, creator of the popular ‘Victor novels’ – here offers his first standalone psychological thriller, and it’s very readable, despite…
17 Aug 2020
CHASING THE LIGHT: HOW I FOUGHT MY WAY INTO HOLLYWOOD FROM THE 1960s TO PLATOON by Oliver Stone: Natural Born Filmmaker ~ Hachette Australia Book Review
The multi- multi -award-winning Stone’s first of what should be several properly autobiographical tomes is a sometimes intense, occasionally overly personal…
17 Aug 2020
PAUL KELLY: THE MAN, THE MUSIC AND THE LIFE IN-BETWEEN by Stuart Coupe: Leaps And Bounds ~ Hachette Australia Book Review
Stuart Coupe (Hachette Australia) 2020, pp, paperback $32.99, Ebook $14.99
2 July 2020
DOGS DON’T WEAR PANTS by J-P Valkeapää: The Ties That Bind… ~ Streaming Film Review
Co-writer, director and cameo player J-P Valkeapää’s Finnish/Latvian co-production (a.k.a. Koirat Eivät Käytä Housuja ) is a dramatic/comedic study of a…
25 June 2020
LOCKDOWN by Peter May: Nothing To Sneeze At… A COVID-19 Prediction??? ~ Book Review
Peter May (Hachette Australia) 2020, 399pp, Paperback RRP $22.99, Audiobook $39.99, eBook $12.99.
8 June 2020
HEATSTROKE by Hazel Barkworth: Some Like It Hot ~ Hachette Australia Book Review
Hazel Barkworth (Hachette Australia) 2020, 312pp, RRP paperback $32.99/hardback $45.00/audio book $35.99/e-book $15.99.