The Grass Sister – Gillian Mears
Gillian Mears is one of my favourite authors. She has written just a handful of novels. Her first, The Mint Lawn, won the Vogel award in 1990 and is one of …
Gillian Mears is one of my favourite authors. She has written just a handful of novels. Her first, The Mint Lawn, won the Vogel award in 1990 and is one of …
One of the best books I read last year was ‘A World of Other People‘ by Stephen Carroll. Forever Young is the fifth of his Glenroy series, a collection …
Me and Mr Booker is Taylor’s debut novel and winner of the 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize. It is a coming of age story told in first person by Martha, a 16 year old …
Six Bedrooms is a collection of 10 short stories about the pain of coming of age. Some are loosely connected to each other via the sad and vulnerable Tasha. I …
On Brunswick Ground is a contemporary novel set in Melbourne. It draws on the violent death of journalist Jill Meagher in 2012 to explore the fear that her death evoked in local …
I read A Short History of Richard Kline ahead of hearing Amanda Lohrey speak at the Sydney Writers Festival this year. It seems a long time ago now, and reminds …
I read A World of Other People ahead of hearing Steven Carroll speak at this year’s Sydney Writers Festival. This book won the Prime Minister’s literary award in controversial circumstances last …
Helen Garner has really made the true crime and court drama her own, with Joe Cinque’s Consolation, The First Stone, and now This House of Grief. But the tag …
I look forward to the Sydney Writers’ Festival every year, eagerly scanning the program for my favourite writers and the topics that hook me. For me, the festival is about …
I’ve been promising myself I’ll read more widely but yet again, I’ve been diverted by a new book closely related to the book I’m writing. In the case of Summer’s …
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