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Olivera Simić, Surviving peace: A political memoir (Review)
Courtesy: Spinifex Press I hadn’t heard of Olivera Simić when Spinifex Press offered me her book, Surviving peace: a political memoir, to review, but her subject matter – the Bosnian war, to put it...
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Cate Kennedy (ed), Australian love stories (Review)
(Courtesy: Inkerman & Blunt) Four hundred and forty-five stories! She read four hundred and forty-five of them! I’m talking about Cate Kennedy, the editor of Australian love stories. These stories...
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Kate Forsyth, Stories as salvation (Review)
One of the best things about being involved in the Australian Women Writers’ Challenge is hearing of writers whom I may not otherwise have come across, or, if I had, who may not have registered...
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Annabel Smith, The Ark (Review)
I must start by thanking Western Australian short story writer Glen Hunting* for recommending Annabel Smith’s The Ark in his comment on a recent Monday Musings post. Hunting wrote that it “is...
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Clare Wright, The forgotten rebels of Eureka (Review)
Courtesy: Text Publishing Wah! Once again I delayed reading a much heralded book until my reading group did it*, and so it is only now that I’ve read Clare Wright’s Stella Prize winning history, The...
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Jill Sanguinetti, School days of a Methodist lady: A journey through girlhood...
When I read a memoir, particularly one by an unknown person like Jill Sanguinetti’s School days of a Methodist lady, my first question is why was this memoir written? Sally Morgan’s My place, for...
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Ethel Turner, Tales from the “Parthenon” (Review)
Courtesy: Juvenilia Press Hands up if you’re an Aussie and didn’t read Ethel Turner’s Seven little Australians in your childhood. Surely no hands have gone up? Seven little Australians, her first...
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Helen Garner, This house of grief: The story of a murder trial (Review)
Courtesy: Text Publishing Well you might ask why you would want to read a book about the trial of a man accused of murdering his three sons by driving his car into a dam and escaping the car himself?...
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Thea Astley, Drylands (Review, of sorts)
I read Thea Astley’s Drylands many, many years ago now, so what I’m going to share here – inspired by my post earlier this year on confronting Australian novels – are the notes I made when I read it....
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Monday musings on Australian literature: Australian Women Writers’ Challenge...
As I’ve done over the last two years, I’m devoting my last Monday Musings for the year to the Australian Women Writers Challenge. This challenge, which most of you probably know by now, was instigated...
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