Jean introduced me to the work of Robert Goddard when she was working as fiction editor for Transworld and Goddard’s first novel Past Caring (1986) was being heavily...
Read More‘Fantastic nude profile plastered in central Tassie’: (13 letters)* – if you don’t know where to start, or even if you do, this is the book for you. David Astle –...
Read MoreHanif Kureishi’s new novel about a would-be biographer and his famous novelist subject charts a process of disillusionment. If a biographer’s role is to ‘show the world...
Read MoreFew subjects interest me less than astronomy and space travel. I can’t be bothered with what’s happening light years away, the Big Bang or dark matter. I watched the...
Read MoreThis compelling account of a little-known period is rich in history and plot. The fifth novel by Australian author Boyd Anderson is set in a relatively unknown time in...
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