Index: Authors

This is an index of posts focused specifically on the authors listed below (usually a review or a dedicated post). To save scrolling, click on the letter in the alphabet list to get to that letter in the index.

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Australian authors – defined broadly – are identified by their Last Name being in Upper Case

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
Abuelaish, Izzeldin: I shall not hate
Adiga, Avarind: The sultan’s battery
Ahmad, Jamil: The wandering falcon
Amado, Jorge: Gabriela, clove and cinnamon
ANDERSON, Jessica: The commandant
Antunes, António Lobo: The natural order of things
APPLETON, Richard: Appo: Recollections of a member of the Sydney Push
Ariyoshi, Sawako: The doctor’s wife
ASTLEY, Thea:

• Favourite writers, 3: Thea Astley
• Hunting the wild pineapple (Short story)
• The monstrous accent on youth
• The multiple effects of rainshadow

Atta, Sefi: A bit of difference
Atwood, Margaret: The Penelopiad
Austen, Jane:

• Favourite writers 1: Jane Austen
• Happy 200th birthday to Pride and prejudice
• Jane Austen and the Cambridge University Press
• Jane Austen and the information highway
• Jane Austen: Conservative or progressive?
• Jane Austen’s letters, 1796-1800
• Jane Austen’s letters, 1807-1809
• Jane Austen’s letters, 1811-1813
• Jane Austen’s letters, 1814-1816
• Jane Austen’s manuscripts: Is she the writer we think she is?
• Love and freindship
• Monday musings on Australian literature: Aussie writers and Jane Austen
• Sense and sensibility (Vol. 1)
• Sense and sensibility (Vol. 2)
• The Watsons
• Why did Jane Austen?
• William Gilpin, Jane Austen and the picturesque

Austin, Mary: The scavengers

B
BAIL, Murray: The pages
Banville, John: The infinities
Barnes, Djuna: Come into the roof garden, Maud
Barnes, Julian:

• The limner
• The sense of an ending

Barnum, P.T.: P.T. Barnum in France
Barry, Kevin: Fjord of Killary
Barua, Jahnavi: Rebirth
BAYNTON, Barbara:

• The chosen vessel
• A dreamer
• Scrammy ‘and
• Squeaker’s mate

Bennett, Alan:

• The lady in the van
• The uncommon reader

BERGNER, Herz: Between sky and sea
Biggar, Joanna: That Paris year
Blackman, Andrew: Nights on Fair Isle
BOBIS, Merlinda: Fish-hair woman
BOYD, Martin: A difficult young man
Brizendine, Louann: The female brain
BROOKS, Geraldine: Caleb’s crossing

C
CAMBRIDGE, Ada: Monday musings on Australian literature: Ada Cambridge
Camus, Albert: The plague (or, La peste)
CANNOLD, Leslie: The book of Rachael
CAREY, Peter:

• The chemistry of tears
• Parrot and Olivier in America

Cather, Willa:

• My Ántonia
• The sentimentality of William Taverner
• A Wagner matinée
• When I knew Stephen Crane

CATO, Nancy: All the rivers run. Bk 1, A River not yet tamed
CHAMBERS, Jeremy: The vintage and the gleaning
Chevalier, Tracy: Remarkable creatures
Chopin, Kate:

• After the winter
• Désirée’s baby
• A morning walk
• A respectable woman

COETZEE, J.M.: Diary of a bad year
COLLINS, Courtney: The burial
Crace, Jim: Being dead
CROOME, Andrew:

• Document Z
• Midnight empire

D
DeLillo, Don: Midnight in Dostoevsky
DENNIS, C.J.: The many moods of Ginger Mick
Dickens, Charles: On travel
DISHER, Garry: Wyatt
Duncan, John M.: A Virginia barbecue
Dyer, Geoff: Jeff in Venice, death in Varanasi

E
Eaton, Edith Maude: Mrs Spring Fragrance
EDGAR, Suzanne: The love procession
Eliot, T.S.:

• TS Eliot’s The waste land, app style
• Weekends with TS Eliot
• Weekends with TS Eliot (2)

Eugenides, Jeffrey: Extreme solitude

F
FEATHERSTONE, Nigel:

• Fall on me
• I’m ready now

Field, Edward: WWII
FLANNERY, Tim: After the future: Australia’s new extinction crisis
FLYNN, Chris: Tiger in Eden
Foer, Jonathan Safran: Everything is illuminated
Franzen, Jonathan: Freedom
FROST, Jennifer: Jane Austen’s sewing box
Frost, Robert: The question of a feather
FUNDER, Anna: Stasiland

G
GARNER, Helen:

•  The children’s Bach
• Cosmo cosmolino
• Postcards from Surfers

Ghosh, Amitav: River of smoke
Gide, André: The immoralist (or, L’immoraliste)
Geddes-Brown, Leslie: Books do furnish a room
Godwin, Peter: When a crocodile eats the sun
GOLD, Irma:

• The invisible thread (editor)
• Two steps forward

GOLDSMITH, Andrea: The reunion
GOULD, Alan:

• The lakewoman: A romance
• Talking with Alan Gould

GRENVILLE, Kate: The lieutenant
Griffiths, Jay: A love letter from a stray moon

H
Hadley, Tessa: Friendly fire
HALLIGAN, Marion:

• Marion on Marion (Halligan)
• Valley of Grace

HANRAHAN, Barbara: The scent of eucalyptus
HARROWER, Elizabeth: The watch tower
HEISS, Anita: Paris dreaming
HOLDEN, Kate: The romantic: Italian nights and days
HOOPER, Chloe: The tall man
HORNUNG, Eva: Dog boy
HOWARD, Rod: A forger’s tale: The extraordinary story of Henry Savery, Australia’s first novelist
Hughes, Bettye Rice: A Negro tourist in Dixie
HUME, Fergus: The mystery of a hansom cab
HYLAND, M.J.:

• Carry me down
• This is how

I
Ishiguro, Kazuo: Nocturnes: Five stories of music and nightfall

J
JACKSON, Ginny: The still deceived
Jackson, Shirley: Charles
Jacobson, Howard: The Finkler question
James, P.D.: Death comes to Pemberley
James, Henry: Paste
James, William: On some mental effects of the earthquake
Jansen op de Haar, Arnold: King of Tuzla
Jennings, Karen: Finding Soutbek
JENNINGS, Kate:

• Snake
• Trouble: The evolution of a radical

JOHNSON, Susan: Life in seven mistakes
JOHNSTON, Dorothy: The house at number 10
JOLLEY, Elizabeth:

• Diary of a weekend farmer
• Favourite writers, 2: Elizabeth Jolley
• My father’s moon

Jones, Lloyd: Hand me down world
JORDAN, Toni:

• Addition
• Fall girl
• Nine days

K
Kazan, Elia: Audience tomorrow: Preview in New Guinea
Kertèsz, Imre: Fateless (or, Fatelessness)
Kipling, Rudyard: An interview with Mark Twain
Krauss, Nicole: The young painters
KRIEN, Anna:

• Into the woods
• Us and them: On the importance of animals

KROUK, Nora: Warming the core of things

L
LANE, William: The workingman’s paradise
LANGLEY, Eve: The pea pickers
LEANE, Jeanine: Purple threads
Lianke, Yan: Dream of Ding Village
London, Jack: War
LONDON, Joan: The good parents
LOVITT, Zane: The midnight promise
Luiselli, Valeria: Faces in the crowd
LUKASHENKO, Melissa: The silent majority

M
McCall Smith, Alexander:

• The Saturday big tent wedding party
• Tea time for the traditionally built

McCLELLAND, Matt: Best river and alpine walks around Mt Kosciuszko
McEwan, Ian: Solar
McNAMARA, Catherine: The divorced lady’s companion to living in Italy
MALOUF, David: Ransom
Mantel, Hilary: Wolf Hall
MEARS, Gillian: Foal’s bread
Meloy, Maile: Liliana
Mencken, HL: The nature of liberty
MENDELAWITZ, Margaret: Charles Dickens’ Australia: Selected essays from Household Words 1850-1859. Book 1, Convict stories
Menéndez, Ana: Celebrations of Thanksgiving: Cuban offerings
Mengestu, Dinaw: An honest exit
MILLER, Alex: Lovesong
Mitchell, David:

• Earth calling Taylor
• The thousand autumns of Jacob de Zoet

MOORHOUSE, Frank: Cold light
Muir, John: A wind storm in the forests
MUNKARA, Marie: Every secret thing
Munro, Alice: Dimension
Murakami, Haruki:

• Blind willow, sleeping woman
• What I talk about when I talk about running

MURNANE, Gerald: The plains

N
Nathan, George Jean: Baiting the umpire
NIALL, Brenda: True north: The story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack

O
Oates, Joyce Carol: Beasts
Obama, Barack: Dreams from my father
O’Hagan, Andrew: The life and opinions of Maf the dog and of his friend Marilyn Monroe
O’REILLY, Paddy: The salesman
Orwell, George:

• Books v cigarettes
• Bookshop memories
• Confessions of a book reviewer

P
PAGE, Geoff: The scarring
PALMER, Vance: The future of Australian literature
Pamuk, Orhan: Snow
PARK, Ruth:

• Missus
• Monday musings on Australian literature: Ruth Park
• Swords and crowns and rings
• Vale Ruth Park

PATERSON, A.B.: The man from Snowy River, and other verses
PERLMAN, Elliot: The street sweeper
Poe, Edgar Allan: Hop-Frog
PORTER, Dorothy:

• The bee hut
• On passion

PRICHARD, Katharine Susannah: The pioneers
PRYOR, Boori (Monty): Maybe tomorrow
PUNG, Alice: Her father’s daughter

R
RENDLE-SHORT, Francesca: Bite your tongue
ROBERTSON, Deborah: Sweet old world
ROWLEY, Hazel: Franklin and Eleanor: An extraordinary marriage
Roy, Anuradha: The folded earth
Rushdie, Salman: The empress of Florence

S
SALA, Michael: The lost thread
SANDERS, Zora: Meanjin 1 (2013), The Canberra issue (ed.)
Sayrafiezadeh, Saïd: Appetite
SCOTT, Kim: That deadman dance
SHIRM, Gretchen: Having cried wolf
Shriver, Lionel: So much for that
Shin, Kyung-Sook: Please look after mom
SILVEY, Craig: Jasper Jones
Simonson, Helen: Major Pettigrew’s last stand
SIMSION, Graeme: The Rosie project
ST JOHN, Madeleine: The women in black
Styron, William: Rat Beach
SWANN, Leah: Bearings

T
TAN, Shaun: Eric
TANSLEY, Tangea: A break in the chain: The early Kozminskys
TEMPLE, Peter: Truth
Terrell, Mary Church: What it means to be colored in the the capital of the United States
Thurber, James: The lady on the bookcase
Toer, Pramoedya Ananta: This earth of mankind
TOLTZ, Steve: A fraction of the whole
Trevor, William: The woman of the house
TRINCA, Helen: Madeleine: A life of Madeleine St John
TSIOLKAS, Christos: The slap

V
Vargas Llosa, Mario: The feast of the Goat
Verghese, Abraham: Cutting for stone
VON ARNIM, Elizabeth: Monday musings on Australian literature: Elizabeth von Arnim

W
Wallace, David Foster:

• All that
• Federer as religious experience
• Twenty-four word notes

Walpole, Horace: The castle of Otranto
WARUNG, Price: Tales of the early days
Waters, Sarah: The little stranger
West, Nathanael: Business deal
Wharton, Edith: A journey
WHITE, Patrick: Happy Valley
Winterson, Jeanette: Oranges are not the only fruit
WINTON, Tim: Breath
Woolf, Virginia: The mark on the wall
WRIGHT, Alexis: Carpentaria

Y
Yoshimoto, Banana: The lake

Z
ZABLE, Arnold: Sea of many returns
Zinn, Howard: Finishing school for pickets
ZUSAK, Marcus: The book thief