A beautiful, profoundly moving tribute to the relationship between mother and daughter.
Tag: Australian
Review: White Beech by Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer writes that restoring the land is her proudest achievement.
Review: Song Of The Crocodile by Nardi Simpson
Another unpredictable and unsettling novel from the latest flourishing of Aboriginal writing.
The best books I’ve read 2020
The books that have had the biggest impact on me this year.
Review: A Couple Of Things Before The End by Sean O’Beirne
These stories are about traditional Aussie men, all at sea in their emotions.
Review: A Treacherous Country by K. M. Kruimink
A strange and misty novel set in colonial Van Diemen’s Land.
Review: Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee
Eggshell Skull is a compelling and infuriating insight into the justice system, and the psychology of victimhood.
Review: Stone Sky Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe
Stone Sky Gold Mountain offers a rearranging of Australian history, reminding us other settlers were also here in the early days.
Review: Living With The Anthropocene (edited by Cameron Muir, Kirsten Wehner and Jenny Newell)
The writers in this collection grapple with what it means to be “planetary” beings: how our individual actions can seem so small, but have global consequences.
Review: Fire Country by Victor Steffensen
Victor Steffensen offers a language to articulate here we want to go and how to get there.
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