The Country Cookbook by Belinda Jeffrey
Reviewing a cookbook isn’t like reviewing fiction. To review a cookbook you need to be aware of how varied the desires of readers of cookbooks are, compared to, say, readers of fiction. Most people...
View ArticleThe Autumn Castle by Kim Wilkins
This review contains significant spoilers, which begin after the Plot heading. There’s a tension when reviewing authors who are alive and live relatively close to you. You’d like them to succeed. You’d...
View ArticleMy Country and Other Poems by Dorothea Mackellar
Technically, Dorothea Mackellar is a good poet, and she’s a pleasure to read, but her subject choice, and her mode of writing, lack some of the edge and energy of modern poetry. As a poet of the...
View ArticleGreat Australian Women by Susanna de Vries
This has all of the makings of a great book of biographies. Its choice of subjects is, for the most part, sound. Its characters, as required, stand up to either poverty or oppression, and overthrow or...
View ArticleThe Dawn by Louisa Lawson, volume one
Continuing in my quest to complete the Australian Women Writers Challenge, I’m cheating a little by selecting a magazine. It is, however, a really interesting magazine, if, like me, you’re into social...
View ArticleAussie Voices: Australian Legendary Tales: Folk-Lore of the Noongahburrahs As...
This fortnight on Aussie Voices, we have a strange document, with layered significance, by a female writer who lived in north-western New South Wales. Two tales of her childhood, unprovable as all such...
View ArticleOur 2013 Reading Challenge
In 2012 we tried a basic “52 books in 52 weeks” challenge and it went well, so we wanted to have another for 2013. We couldn’t come up with a more awesome idea than the people over at the Australian...
View ArticleFinishing the Australian Women Writers Reading Challenge 2012
I decided to embrace the challenge wholeheartedly, and choose the option of reading ten books and giving a lengthy review of four. As I have some free time, I reviewed rather more. A list of links is...
View ArticleNovember Online ebook club – Like a House on Fire by Cate Kennedy
At the beginning of this month I admitted that I do not usually like short stories. Cate Kennedy’s Like a House on Fire was an exception. Like a House on Fire revolves around issues of loss whether...
View ArticleDecember online ebook club – True crime
Ok so we could have chosen a light-hearted summer holiday read for our December online ebook club, but they’re overrated don’t you think? This month, we thought we’d try true crime. True crime is very...
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