Meg Mundell

  • 'Vertigo: A Novella' by Amanda Lohrey The Online Monthly - subscriber only access

    Meg Mundell | December 2008 - January 2009 | Noted
    The idea of leaving carries a seductive charge: an implicit dare to abandon your old life and begin afresh. City-dwellers Anna and Luke, the protagonists of Amanda Lohrey's timely new book, feel something is missing. Worn down by doubt and pollution, unsettled by the dinner-party drone of...
  • ‘Disquiet’ by Julia Leigh The Online Monthly - subscriber only access

    Meg Mundell | Books | April 2008 | Noted
    ‘Gothic' is a shady word. It has lent itself to everything from fonts and architecture to subcultures and fiction. It doesn't so much prescribe a genre as suggest a mood: gloomy, uneasy, brooding. This is the tenor of Disquiet, Julia Leigh's aptly titled new novella, a suspenseful tale...