TREVOR SHEARSTON Game. Reviewed by Michael Jongen

Trevor Shearston presents a fresh view of bushranger Ben Hall in this spare and beautifully written novel. Ben Hall is beginning to tire of life on the road. It isn’t as easy as it used to be and he isn’t getting any younger. He is starting to feel the...

ROBERT DREWE Our Sunshine. Reviewed by Linda Funnell

Robert Drewe’s Ned Kelly gets under the skin. Nine years before Peter Carey published his Booker-winner The True History of the Kelly Gang, he gave a cover endorsement to Robert Drewe’s Our Sunshine, claiming it would  ‘forever change the way we see Ned...