The subject of my latest review for THE AGE/SMH is Craig Silvey’s latest book, Runt. It’s aimed at mid to late primary school-age children and features little Annie Shearer and her best friend, Runt, a scraggy wee dog who can…
Reviews
A journey into the past to find a place called home
As memoirs go, Amaryllis Gacioppo’s first book Motherlands shows nothing of the current tendency of many writers to reveal a traumatic childhood – the more murder, mayhem and misery the better. Gacioppo takes an anthropological rather than a personal view…
Moriarty’s latest romp is an awkward family lunch to remember
My latest book review to be published in The Age/Sydney Morning Herald.
Motherhood, truth, love and guilt: the ingredients of a cracking novel
I’ve always maintained the easiest books to review are the really great ones or the really bad ones. In either case you can become impassioned about the content. Fortunately, in the case of SMH journalist Jacqueline Maley the book was…
The Family Doctor
Debra Oswald is a great example of the amazing versatility of some writers. Not only has Oswald written for television for years (Offspring is her most memorable drama series) but she has written for film, stage, radio and children. She…
The Dja Dja Wurrung people of Central Victoria described their land as merrygic barbarie – good country
And so it was: filled with game, fish,yams and rolling pastures. Within their own nation, the Dja Dja Wurrung lived a life of natural harmony. But in a terrible irony the “lush plains” which attracted the European invaders of the…