November 3, 2011
London calling
Society
Dining at the Ledbury
MJ Hyland
By this author
May 5, 2011
‘Cloudstreet’ By Matthew Saville
Culture
Tim Winton’s Cloudstreet is a compassionate masterpiece, which is to Australians what George Orwell’s 1984 is to the English and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mocking Bird is to Americans. But Matthew Saville’s six-hour miniseries doesn’t …
June 2, 2011
Shipped Down Under
Culture
Jim Loach’s ‘Oranges and Sunshine’ and Mark Lewis’ ‘Cane Toads: The Conquest’
December 2, 2010
First-class passage
Society
It’s not even eight o’clock and already the sun’s burning bright. Trudy and I stand in the shade of the Orient Line ticket-booth at Circular Quay and watch the passengers leave the Oriana. Trudy’s always talked about how we’re going …
December 7, 2005
Fumigation in London & Amsterdam
nation_reviewed
It was a warm Tuesday morning, the beginning of my second week in Bloomsbury, London, and I was smoking a cigarette on the stone steps of the apartment building two doors down from mine. A man wearing overalls got out of a small van, took a silver canister …