Two weeks ago I announced my first blog giveaway, courtesy the generosity of Irma Gold, editor of the Canberra Centenary anthology, The invisible thread. Irma offered me two copies to give away, both signed by most of the authors represented in the anthology - and who are still living of course! Entries closed midnight, AEST, … Continue reading Monday Musings on Australian Literature Special: Book Giveaway Winners
Author: Whispering Gums
Reminder: a Book Giveaway
Time is running out to win one of the multiply signed copies of The invisible thread. Anyone from anywhere can enter as the editor and donor of the copies, Irma Gold, and I have agreed to quarantine one copy for an overseas address, and the other for an Australian address. To read more about the … Continue reading Reminder: a Book Giveaway
Monday musings on Australian literature: Let’s get physical – Canberra
Today's post is the first in a little sub-series of occasional posts containing physical descriptions of places in Australia. This series is not going to be analytical or comprehensive but is intended simply to share descriptions that I like, that make me laugh, or that I think are interesting. My plan is to keep commentary … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Let’s get physical – Canberra
Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin, The novel cure: An A-Z of literary remedies (Review)
I don't usually blog about books before I've read them cover to cover, but I'm making an exception for Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin's The novel cure because it's one of those books that's best read in small doses (no pun intended). You see, it is a book of bibliotherapy, a book that recommends novels … Continue reading Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin, The novel cure: An A-Z of literary remedies (Review)
Monday Musings on Australian Literature Special: a Book Giveaway
Actually, the exciting thing is that this is not A book giveaway, as I have TWO books to give away. And, not only are there two books, but the books are signed by multiple authors! Intrigued? Then read on … As many of you know this year is Canberra’s centenary. And, if you’ve been reading … Continue reading Monday Musings on Australian Literature Special: a Book Giveaway
Ann Patchett, The bookshop strikes back (Review)
I'm not normally an impulse buyer except, it seems, when I visit the bookshop at the National Library of Australia! I tell myself I'm not interested in little books - you know, the sort bookshops put on their sales counters - but somehow the National Library of Australia regularly manages to break down my resolution. … Continue reading Ann Patchett, The bookshop strikes back (Review)
Monday musings on Australian literature: Writing the Australian landscape (2)
In this week's Monday Musings*, I plan to continue last week's discussion of some of the ideas that arose from the National Library of Australia's Writing the Australian Landscape conference. But first, I'll recap the two questions posed by the keynote speakers: Day 1, author Murray Bail suggested that only when we are at ease … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Writing the Australian landscape (2)
National Bookshop Day the Third
Today is - though it's almost over - National Bookshop Day. Last year I wrote a Monday Musings post on Australia's second National Bookshop Day. It's good to see that the momentum continues. In last year's post I named some of my favourite local bookshops - and nothing has changed in that regard except that … Continue reading National Bookshop Day the Third
Romy Ash, The basin (Review)
Romy Ash has made quite a splash with her debut novel, Floundering. It was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award, among others. I haven't read it yet, but I have read a couple of her short stories that have appeared in the Griffth Review, one of which is "The basin". … Continue reading Romy Ash, The basin (Review)
Monday musings on Australian literature: Writing the Australian landscape
This weekend just gone I had the privilege - well, I paid to go, but still it was a privilege - to attend a conference at the National Library of Australia titled Writing the Australian landscape. You can see why I had to go ... wild brumbies couldn't keep me away. But if, perchance, the … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Writing the Australian landscape
Whispering Gums 