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Past & Present: Geraldine Brooks’ Memorial Days
Australian-born author GERALDINE BROOKS reveals to JENNIFER SOMERVILLE how a poignant, powerful memoir resulted from seeking time and space on Flinders Island to mourn a beloved husband.
There is one character who dominates Geraldine Brooks’ latest book, Memorial Days, her most personal work to date. That character is her late husband, author, historian, and larger-than-life extrovert, Tony Horwitz.
He died suddenly in Washington DC while on a book tour ...
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ABOUT THE BOOK
After the success and celebrity of her coming of age novel My Brilliant Career, published when ...
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MANDY BEAUMONT's debut novel The Furies was longlisted for the prestigious Stella Prize and shortlisted for the ...
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KAZUO ISHIGURO is a Nobel Prize and Booker Prize winning author whose works include Never Let Me Go, Klara and the ...
ALISON POULIOT is an ecologist and environmental photographer with a passion for fungi. Her new book Funga Obscura ...
CHRIS PALAZZOLO studied literature, philosophy and media at Murdoch University. He writes poetry, short fiction, ...
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Alice and Teddy both work for the same boss. Both protagonists, while not being morally corrupt, are tough and ...
Reading this book is like visiting an old rose garden somewhere in England where softly coloured blooms cascade ...
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When you hear stories of children born into poverty, violence and criminal activity, with absent parents, your ...
Hands up, all those readers who belonged to the Gould League of Bird Lovers in their youth! Now known as the ...
For the first time since the Donations of Alexandria in 40 BCE the Ptolemies are having a good year – at least in ...
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From the award-winning and genre-defying writer comes an eclectic collection of essays, some of which are short ...
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