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Book Review: The Day She Cradled Me
It would be hard to imagine a more downbeat heroine for an historical novel than Minnie Dean.
Book Review: England is Perfectly Still
The memoir can be a difficult genre to deal with, for author and reader alike.
Book Review: Letters of Frank Sargeson
There are some 500 items in this fascinating selection of Frank Sargeson’s letters — a number that nevertheless represents only about a quarter of the more than 6000 which survive.
Book Review: Waiting For Sunrise
At first sight, Lysander Rief, standing on the corner of the Augustiner Strasse in 1913 Vienna, looks like a hero.
Book Review: In the Absence of Heroes
Recently, while sitting in the airport lounge in Sydney waiting for a flight home, I glanced up from my hardcover book and surveyed the other travellers in my immediate vicinity.
Book Review: Jack Holmes And His Friend
Edmund White has spoken repeatedly of his crawling conviction as a boy and young man that being homosexual was “bad”.
Book Review: Burning Bright
In this book are a dozen short stories that will take you only a couple of hours to read but far longer to forget.
Book Review: The Year Of The Hare
The Year Of The Hare, originally published in 1975, has gone on to sell millions of copies in 18 languages and as two feature films.