MICHAEL WILDING Growing Wild. Reviewed by Inez Baranay
Growing Wild is the entertaining and instructive memoir of a writer and publisher who always took notice, and always took notes. If you’re starting your writing and...
Read MoreALAN SAMPSON Schools of Fish. Reviewed by Ashley Kalagian Blunt
Alan Sampson’s memoir explores parenting, education, and the dangers of pursuing a narrow concept of success. This heartfelt winner of the 2015 Finch Memoir Prize is a...
Read MoreADRIAN SIMON Milk-Blood. Reviewed by Ashley Kalagian Blunt
Adrian Simon’s Milk-Blood is a character study in grit. This dramatic memoir provides another perspective on the infamous true crime story of Warren Fellows, an...
Read MoreJAMES FRY That Fry Boy. Reviewed by Ashley Kalagian Blunt
This memoir of a shattered childhood and teenage alcoholism reveals how any child might end up on the same self-destructive path. That Fry Boy opens in the mid-1990s...
Read MoreNIGEL FEATHERSTONE I’m Ready Now. Reviewed by Walter Mason
A nuanced and thoroughly original novella about the special link between mother and son. A newly widowed Tasmanian woman travels to Sydney to start a new life and...
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