The Crying Room by Gretchen Shirm Author Interview at PaperbarkWords Gretchen Shirm is a writer’s writer. Her new novel The Crying Room is a masterclass in writing. It’s an immersive story about women (mainly) and their relationships but it’s inimitable quality, in my opinion, is the writing, which adeptly moves from introspection to pathos, pain […]
Read More The Crying Room by Gretchen ShirmDeep in the Forest by Erina Reddan Author Interview for Joy in Books at PaperbarkWords “I know I’ve spent too much time lost in the river runs of these pages, making notes on the last things to be done before the binding. The moment when all the words, the ideas, the song of it come […]
Read More DEEP IN THE FOREST by Erina ReddanThe Drowning by Bryan Brown (published by Allen & Unwin) Author interview with Bryan Brown The Drowning is a compulsive, gritty crime novel with plenty of dry Australian humour. It grabs your attention from the start because it is so easy to read. It has a large cast of male and female characters. We are […]
Read More Bryan Brown Interview ‘The Drowning’Bon and Lesley by Shaun Prescott Author Interview at Paperbark Words “You’d be surprised how many places elude maps, you can fairly easily stray from the known world entirely. And you’re not paying attention if you think it’s untrue, but you must know it anyway because you got off the train. You always thought these […]
Read More Bon and Lesley by Shaun PrescottBody FriendKatherine BrabonUltimoReviewed by Joy LawnReleased September 2023PaperbackISBN 9781761151781RRP $34.99Category: Fiction Body Friend (Katherine Brabon, Ultimo) 25 July 2023 Unlocked content from the archive. Books+Publishing (This review was commissioned by Books+Publishing and is reproduced with permission.) Katherine Brabon distinguished herself with her first novels, The Memory Artist and The Shut Ins, but she has surpassed these and reached an […]
Read More Body friend by Katherine BrabonThe Pole & Other StoriesJ M CoetzeeTextReviewed by Joy LawnReleased July 2023Trade paperbackISBN 9781922790354RRP $34.99Category: Fiction The Pole & Other Stories by J.M. Coetzee (published by Text) (This review was commissioned by Books+Publishing and is reproduced with permission) Aficionados of South African-Australian Nobel and Booker Prize-winning author J M Coetzee will be delighted with his new […]
Read More The Pole & Other Stories by J.M. CoetzeeJessica Au wins the 2023 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction. Cold Enough for Snow (Giramondo Publishing) wins another literary prize. Congratulations! Read my interview with Jessica Au and other panellists at Brisbane Writers Festival 2023. Jessica Au, Susan Johnson, Anne Casey-Hardy & Ianto Ware at BWF 2023 It was great to be moderating sessions […]
Read More Jessica Au & Cold Enough for SnowRobbie Arnott is an exciting Australian author (see my review of The Rain Heron for the Weekend Australian and Flames. His novel Limberlost continues to win accolades so here is my omnibus review for the Weekend Australian, accompanied by Carol Lefevre’s The Tower and The Sun Walks Down. (I’ve reproduced it because it is otherwise […]
Read More LIMBERLOST by Robbie ArnottGlass HousesAnne CoombsUpswellReviewed by Joy LawnReleased April 2023PaperbackISBN 9780645536836RRP $29.99Category: Fiction Glass Houses by Anne Coombs (published by Upswell) (This review was commissioned by Books+Publishing and is reproduced with permission) Glass Houses is Anne Coombs’s (Sex and Anarchy: The life and death of the Sydney Push) posthumous final novel. Perched on a ‘neglected hillside’ near the […]
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