What orients us historically if we don’t know our forebears during our childhood? Is our sense of family contained in houses or other environments? How tenuous are the links between parents and children? What haunts us from the past and why? Lisa Gorton’s new novel, The Life of Houses, provokes this kind of questioning and
Sex and death — the two key subjects of fiction — are entwined and plentiful in esteemed Australian novelist Marion Halligan’s twenty-second book, Goodbye Sweetheart, said Carmel Bird, who launched the novel in Canberra on April 14. Bird, whose new short story collection My Hearts Are Your Hearts will be released by Spineless Wonders later this
What makes the human heart tick? Carmel Bird, in her new short story collection, My Hearts Are Your Hearts, deftly probes this question. Bird is one of Australia’s foremost writers and the 20 stories in My Hearts pulsate with life, blood and bravura. In this Q&A (as in My Hearts itself) Bird leads us to the
I hate Easter egg chocolate so books are my Easter treat. Who needs dud chocolate when birds, love, war, art forgery and poems of great immediacy are on offer? H is for Hawk Helen MacDonald’s photographer father died suddenly and training her new goshawk, Mabel, helped her through it. MacDonald’s an academic who writes about
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