When Gabrielle Carey wrote to reclusive Australian novelist Randolph Stow to tell him her mother — his childhood friend — was dying, she could not have anticipated the journey of discovery that would unfold. The ensuing literary-pilgrimage-cum-family-quest is detailed in Moving Among Strangers. The journey sees Carey: reconnect with extended family; explore places in Western
My story “Walk Beside Me” has been shortlisted for the 2013 Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers. The four judges from Victoria University and Overland magazine — Enza Gandalfo, Jennifer Mills, Jeff Sparrow and Jacinda Woodhead — “read blind” and chose from 830 entries what they believed to be “12
Who owns the land? — Those who till it or those who hold the title deeds? How permeable should a community’s boundaries be? — Welcoming of all or divided into “insiders” and “interlopers”? These pithy questions lie at the heart of Harvest by Jim Crace; the novel tipped by many as the Man Booker Prize
Friends are urging me to see the movie The Turning this October long weekend and, if my time-poor dips into popular Australian Tim Winton’s book (on which the film is based) are anything to go by, it should be both challenging and fun. Even without the cinematic drawcards of Cate Blanchett, Richard Roxburgh, Hugo Weaving
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