Melbourne-based Steven Carroll’s most recent novel, A World of Other People weaves together an intricate tale of a love affair between a pilot and a writer.
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Books
Monday Morning Cooking Club Review
“Monday Morning Cooking Club” is compiled by six Jewish women, but don’t be alarmed – it’s not all Jewish food. The recipes are a compilation of their favourite recipes, for the most part it is family food, homely recipes that I imagine have been in families for a few generations.
The Fields
It doesn’t matter if you weren’t an 80s teenager, Kevin Maher’s The Fields easily transports you to 1984 Ireland where 13 year old Jim Finnegan has five older sisters, is labelled a bender and is being exposed to things beyond his years by older friend Mozzo. Maher carefully constructs through Jim’s eyes an Ireland not entirely at peace, and like a 13 year old, struggling to identify itself.
Harmless
The Australian outback is often a setting that risks becoming a cliché of itself, although Harmless avoids this by moving away from the done to death bush setting and moves our characters to the outer regions of central Perth.
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The Midnight Dress
Though hundreds of books are written day after day, it’s the ones that have their own distinct voice that stand out, just as Karen Foxlee’s The Midnight Dress does. Continue reading
Perth Writers Festival 2013: Katherine Dorrington
For the literary-minded in Perth, there is no other locally held event quite like the Writers Festival. Continue reading
The Yellow Birds
The professionalisation of the armed forces through the 20th century and the end of conscription may well explain why the phenomenon of the novelist in war has all but vanished. Continue reading
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