The Boy, by Dan Porat
The recent revelation that an Australian Premier wore a Nazi uniform to his 21st birthday party twenty years ago is a reminder that there is an ongoing need to educate people about the Holocaust....
View ArticleUp We Grew (2004), by Pamela Bone
I’ve been remiss with this book: Jennifer from Tasmanian Bibliophile at Large very kindly sent me Pamela Bone’s Up We Grew, Stories of Australian Childhoods back in 2019 after I commented on her...
View ArticleInner Song (2023), by Jillian Graham
Anyone who’s interested in Australian music history will want to read Jillian Graham’s Inner Song, a Biography of Margaret Sutherland. But I have more than a casual interest in the 20th century...
View ArticleMurnane (Contemporary Australian Writers series, 2023) by Emmett Stinson
Second in the Contemporary Australian Writers series from the University of Melbourne’s Miegunyah Press, Murnane is the perfect resource for those of us who like reading the work of Gerald Murnane… but...
View ArticleLetters to a Critic, Alan McCulloch’s World of Art, by Rodney James
Best known as Australia’s most influential art critic, Alan McLeod McCulloch (1907-1992) was an extraordinary man, and it’s really quite surprising that it has taken 30 years since his death for a...
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