Matthew Hooper's debut novel A Cold Season published by @transitlounge2 is a character-driven novel, and the characterisation is masterfully done anzlitlovers.com/2024/10/06/a...
As usual I was reading two books at once, when I read Matthew Hooper’s debut novel A Cold Season, and so his evocation of the bitter cold in the Australian Alps was supplemented by the images…
As close to unputdownable as biography gets… Townsend of the Ranges by Peter Crowley from @nlagovau Publishing anzlitlovers.com/2024/10/04/t...
If you had an Australian education and you laboriously traced and labelled our (unimaginatively named) states and territories in your social studies exercise book, did you ever wonder why the borde…
I’m with Louie on this. Another factor is that text-based sites promote conversation. You can really get to know people - readers, fellow writers, critics, booksellers. Image and video feel much more like broadcasting. You can get/leave comments, but it’s not an exchange between equals.
Recommended by Hilary Mantel, Elizabeth Jane Howard's The Light Years (Cazalet Chronicles #1) is astute social commentary: anzlitlovers.com/2024/10/01/t...
The Light Years is Volume One of Elizabeth Jane Howard’s The Cazalet Chronicles, recommended to me by no less a literary luminary than Hilary Mantel. One of Mantel’s essays in A Memoir…
Joseph Conrad shows that it's still possible to write a great sea story in the age of the steamship: anzlitlovers.com/2024/09/29/t...
These three tales from Joseph Conrad — The Lagoon (1897), Typhoon (1902), and The Secret Sharer (1910) — are collected in Penguin’s 2023 Little Clothbound Classics series. Although I’v…
Anna Jacobson's award winning poetry collection Anxious in a Sweet Store is published by Upswell: anzlitlovers.com/2024/09/25/a...
If anything in this post raises issues for you, please visit the Victorian Better Health Channel for advice and information about support services. Anxiety is common, but for some people, excessive an...
Hilary Mantel's marvellous Reith Lectures on the theme of historical fiction are included in A Memoir of My Former Self: anzlitlovers.com/2024/09/20/t...
When the beloved English author Hilary Mantel died unexpectedly in 2022, the loss was compounded by the realisation that there would be no more books. So I was startled when I spied A Memoir of My Fo...
I was disappointed to see that it's only available for 25 days. Our ABC is doing the same thing, making content vanish long before its use-by date...
No, I didn't know that, had never heard of it. So thank you!