KRISTINA OLSSON Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir. Reviewed by Paula Grunseit
This ‘shatteringly beautiful’ memoir of a mother forcibly separated from her baby son won the Non-Fiction prize at the 2013 Queensland Literary Awards. It...
Read MorePAUL HAM 1914: The Year the War Ended. Reviewed by Rod Madgwick
Paul Ham provides a readable and fair-minded corrective to the history wars being waged in the centenary of the outbreak of World War I. If you have ever stood by the...
Read MoreMANDY SAYER The Poet’s Wife. Reviewed by Kylie Mason
The award-winning author of Velocity and Dreamtime Alice returns with the searing, soul-baring memoir of her marriage to Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa....
Read MoreVANESSA BERRY Ninety9. Reviewed by Walter Mason
Goths, zines and inner-city life: this memoir of 1990s Sydney is nostalgic and multi-layered – and fun. One of the ways I love to torture myself is by reading about...
Read MoreJANE MCCREDIE and NATASHA MITCHELL (Eds) The Best Australian Science Writing 2013. Reviewed by Jean Bedford
In its pursuit of cool ideas, this diverse anthology – from essays to poetry to memoir – gives a fresh window into what’s happening in the world of science. This...
Read MoreGERMAINE GREER White Beech. Reviewed by Tracy Sorensen
This passionate account of one woman’s engagement with the natural world is also a plea for conservation and rehabilitation. Under suburban tarmac, says Germaine...
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