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Michael Sala’s The last thread is 2013′s Pacific Region Winner of the Commonwealth Book Prize
The last thread (Courtesy: Affirm Press) I don’t know about you but I find blogging a challenge when I’m travelling, as I have been for much of May. I love my iPad for staying in touch, bu… more →
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Confronting the Culture, Language and History of War: Mark Roberts reviews 'Valence: Considering War Through Poetry and Theory' by Susan Hawthorne
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wrote 1 day ago: Valence: Considering War Through Poetry and Theory by Susan Hawthorne. Spinifex 2011. In a recent in … more →
Michael Sala's The last thread is 2013's Pacific Region Winner of the Commonwealth Book Prize
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wrote 2 days ago: The last thread (Courtesy: Affirm Press) I don’t know about you but I find blogging a challeng … more →
Land's Edge, A Coastal Memoir, by Tim Winton
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wrote 4 days ago: Tim Winton is said to be one of Australia’s best-loved novelists, and he has won countless awa … more →
M.L.Stedman: The Light Between Oceans (2012)
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wrote 5 days ago: A boat washes up on the shore of a remote lighthouse keeper’s island. It holds a dead man … more →
Monday musings on Australian literature: City, bush and outback
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wrote 5 days ago: If today weren’t Monday, this would probably be a literary road post but it is Monday which me … more →
Good on Paper, by Andrew Morgan, Guest review by Karenlee Thompson
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wrote 5 days ago: I knew as soon as I saw this satire on books and writing that it had to be reviewed by a real author … more →
Delicious descriptions from Down under: Andrew Croome on Nevada
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wrote 6 days ago: I recently reviewed Andrew Croome’s Midnight empire which is mostly set in and around Las Vega … more →
Mourning a missed major
wrote 6 days ago: Dear Literature, Thank you for letting me re-discover parts of you this recently. This enriching exp … more →
Steeplechase, by Krissy Kneen
wrote 6 days ago: The steeplechase is a very clever metaphor for this book: I know that there are fans of this form of … more →
'The Eye of the Storm' by Patrick White (1973)
wrote 1 week ago: Patrick, the greatest novelist to have come out of Australia, had already produced a number of class … more →
Monday musings on Australian literature: Miles Franklin Award shortlist and the woman question
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wrote 1 week ago: Miles Franklin ca 1940s (Presumed Public Domain, via Wikipedia) Things have been looking up lately o … more →
Review: Mateship with Birds
wrote 1 week ago: Published by Lip Mag. My review of Mateship with Birds: the winner of the Stella Prize. If a strange … more →
Victim of the Aurora by Thomas Keneally
wrote 2 weeks ago: First Published: 1977 by William Collins Sons & Co. (Sceptre 2nd ed. 1994) My copy: Bought secon … more →
Can a Duck Swim? by June Porter
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wrote 2 weeks ago: As readers of this blog know, I enjoy reading books from other cultures as a way of learning more ab … more →
Short Story Competition - May 2013 - Theme: Small Town Setting
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wrote 2 weeks ago: The Australian Literature Review is running monthly short story competitions for April, May and June … more →
Floundering - Romy Ash
wrote 2 weeks ago: Here is a book review I wrote for Lip Magazine on debut novel by promising Melbourne author Romy Ash … more →
'Sarah Thornhill' by Kate Grenville
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wrote 2 weeks ago: 2012, 304 p. An author writing a book that is part of a series has to write for two audiences. The … more →
Recycle: Two Australian poems of World War II
wrote 2 weeks ago: I am recycling after having watched the second part of Desert War on ABC1 last night. Desert War is … more →
Literature and War Readalong May 31 2013: All That I Am by Anna Funder
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wrote 2 weeks ago: When I first heard of Anna Funder’s novel All That I Am I wanted to start reading it right aw … more →
