Richard Beasley

dead in the water : dry argument be damned

Richard Cotter / 12 February 2021

Laugh like a drain, seriously, reading Richard Beasley’s DEAD IN THE WATER, probably the most seriously funny or funnily serious book you’ll read this year.

DEAD IN THE WATER is a very angry book about our greatest environmental catastrophe – …

Literature

me and rory macbeath- richard beasley

Richard Cotter / 4 June 2013

ME & RORY MACBEATH (Hachette) by Richard Beasley is reminiscent of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. Twelve year old Jake Taylor lives with his single parent barrister mum, Harriet, in a street in suburban Adelaide. It’s the street that houses …