Miles Franklin Longlist 2010
The longlist of books for the 2010 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. I am astonished to see that Cate Kennedy’s The World Beneath has been overlooked. Lovesong by Alex Miller (Allen...
View ArticleSiddon Rock, by Glenda Guest
‘He got tired…He gotta sit down’ says Jack the Aboriginal guide of Henry Alberdine, who sat down by the rock known to the indigenous people as Yad Yaddin. Henry was disillusioned by what he had made...
View ArticleNew South Wales Premier’s Prize for New Writing for Fiction 2010
The shortlists keep coming, don’t they? The UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing for Fiction i.e. the New South Wales Premier’s Prize for New Writing for Fiction shortlist includes Steven Amsterdam,...
View ArticleA Week in the Life of Cassandra Aberline, by Glenda Guest #BookReview
Well, A Week in the Life of Cassandra Aberline is a road trip with a difference! Cassandra Aberline has been estranged from her family for almost half a century, but faced with that diagnosis that we...
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