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| | | | Fiction - paperback; Flamingo; 176 pages; 2003. First published in 1970, Paula Fox'sDesperate Characters has recently been "rediscovered" and much acclaimed by the literary elite (in the introduction to this edition, Jonathan Franzen says that when he first read the book in 1991 he "fell in love with it. It seemed to me obviously superior... | |
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| | | | Non-fiction - hardcover; Black Inc; 96 pages; 2024. In recent years I've become a fan of Black Inc's Writers on Writers series in which "leading authors reflect on an Australian writer who has inspired and influenced them". I have previously reviewed volumes on Tim Winton, Helen Garner and Kate Jennings, and have many more in... | |
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| | | | Fiction - paperback; Faber &Faber; 144 pages; 2014. In recent years, Deirdre Madden has becomeone of my favourite writers. She has 10 novels to her name, but I've only reviewed three of them - One by One in the Darkness(published in 1996), Molly Fox's Birthday(2008) and Time Present and Time Past(2013) - which means Ihave... | |
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| | Just a quick summary of events today from Melbourne Jewish Book Week, always a good festival for us because they offer events that are enticing for both of us. Our first event was titled Whitewash, The Jews and Poland, featuring Holocaust historian Jan Grabowski by video link and interviewed by Jonathan Pearlman. Grabowski examines how... |