ROBERT DESSAIX The Time of Our Lives. Reviewed by Ann Skea
In The Time of Our Lives Robert Dessaix ponders approaches to ageing, and does so with ‘unending playful curiosity’. Robert Dessaix is 76 years old. Not...
Read MoreMELANIE JOOSTEN A Long Time Coming: Essays on old age. Reviewed by Shelley McInnis
Old age may be a long time coming, but it is coming. This eloquent collection advocates for the elderly. It was a Doris Lessing novel – specifically, Diary of a Good...
Read MoreFIONA MCFARLANE The Night Guest. Reviewed by Kylie Mason
This mesmerising and suspenseful novel examines isolation, trust and the vagaries of memory. Ruth Field and her cats reside in a house set among the dunes on the New...
Read MoreThe Godfather: Peter Corris on being over seventy
Recently I turned 71. My sister emailed a greeting and apologised for reminding me of the number but I didn’t object at all, not as I did when I turned 70. Had a lovely...
Read MoreSUSAN JOHNSON My Hundred Lovers. Reviewed by Linda Funnell
Susan Johnson’s new novel is both a woman’s search for love and a meditation on the senses. As Samuel Beckett reminds us, we are all born ‘astride of a grave’, so there...
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