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| | | | It seems to me that there are two kinds of historical fiction... Firstly, there is the genuinely escapist read in the Jean Plaidy tradition, i.e.aristocrats and the serving class ina long-ago world, with the star-crossed lovers and political intrigues that belong there. The egalitarian nature of Australian society makes this a tricky genre for Australian... | |
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| | | | The Lyttelton Hart-Davis Letters: Volume Five, 1960 edited by Rupert Hart-Davis (and published in 1983) has me nearing the end of the famous literary correspondence I began reading back in 2018. George Lyttelton had been publisher Rupert Hart-Davis' schoolmaster at Eton; when the two men met as adults, the retired Lyttelon lamented that there was... | |
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| | I am on my second reading of Gerald Murnane's new book, A Million Windows - and I can't resist sharing this marvellous metaphor for poetry... Imagine, if you will, a 'house of fiction' harbouring many writers, who seem to have corralled themselves into different wings of the house. In one wing no one 'owns to'... |