Marvellous Monday Giveaway

Marvellous Monday Giveaway

This Monday we’re giving away two very different novels about life outside Australia’s cities: Jennifer Mills’s Dyschronia, set in a small coastal town and longlisted for the 2019 Miles Franklin Award, and previous Miles Franklin winner Sofie...
Marvellous Monday Giveaway

Marvellous Monday Giveaway

This week week our giveaway features two remarkable convict women:  Meg Keneally’s new novel Fled, based on the life of Mary Bryant, and Jessica North’s biography Esther, about the First Fleet girl who became First Lady of the colony.  To go in...
JESSICA NORTH Esther. Reviewed by Ann Skea

JESSICA NORTH Esther. Reviewed by Ann Skea

This biography recounts how Esther went from being convicted in London’s Old Bailey and transported to Botany Bay with the First Fleet, to becoming First Lady of the colony.   Do not be misled, as I was, by the cover of this book, which shows a young...