Literature: Australian Literature
CULTURE
Staying in Character. Frank Moorhouse and Garry Disher
When a writer invents a great character, what are the attendant expectations? Will he or she be for a novel, a story or a series? How does...
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Age of Innocence: Frank Moorhouse’s 'Cold Light'
David Marr
Edith Campbell Berry has crashed to earth in Canberra circa 1950. She is no longer wanted abroad. All her years at the League of Nations...
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At the Condamine Crossroads Motel
Janette Turner ...
Meg parks right between the goal posts of the Welcome to Condamine sign. Small print below Condamine, white against green, announces:...
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This Helplessness
Steven Amsterdam
I’m afraid we don’t have a lot of choices for treatment here.” “You mean I don’t have a lot of choices?” “Yes.” “Then I’m the one who’s...
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'Foal’s Bread' By Gillian Mears
Carmen Callil
Gillian Mears’s new novel tells the story of the Nancarrow family of One Tree Farm, subsistence farmers in rural New South Wales. Its...
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Three Boys
Sonya Hartnett
He straightens from the grass and sees them immediately, already close, already seeing him, and he’s stunned he didn’t hear the danger...
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The Orange-bellied Parrot
Nicholas Shakespeare
Alison had never liked her grandmother, who lived alone in a big overheated apartment in Zurich, and so when Helen went into hospital after...
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Whirlpool
Cate Kennedy
“Mum says you better get inside right now.” Louise is already getting ready for the photo: she has one big hot-roller pinned to the top of...
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Morris West & Ngo Dinh Diem
It was 1963 and Morris West, Australia’s most successful novelist, was researching his next book. Dismissed by the literati as a middlebrow...
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'What the Family Needed' By Steven Amsterdam
Cate Kennedy
Steven Amsterdam’s award-winning 2009 debut, Things We Didn’t See Coming, heralded the arrival of a richly comic, original and utterly...
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All That I Am. Anna Funder In Conversation
Anna Funder
Anna Funder is the author of the bestselling Stasiland, an examination of life in communist East Germany and the winner of the 2004 Samuel...
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'Cloudstreet' By Matthew Saville
MJ Hyland
Tim Winton’s Cloudstreet is a compassionate masterpiece, which is to Australians what George Orwell’s 1984 is to the English and Harper Lee...
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'Caravan Story' By Wayne Macauley
Martin Shaw
In 2004 Wayne Macauley published to great acclaim a novella titled Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe, with one critic even going so far as...
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POLITICS
A Turkish Tale: Gallipoli and the Armenian Genocide
Robert Manne
During the exact time Australian troops spent in hell on Gallipoli, another event of world-historical importance was taking place on...
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