Monday musings on Australian literature: Fiction about death and dying

Today's Monday Musings is more personal than these posts usually are. Ten days ago, the last aunt of my aunts and uncles died. She'd been failing for some time, really, but she fought death to the end. Indeed, when we were in her house last week starting that awful job of clearing a house, we were told we needed … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Fiction about death and dying

Bianca Nogrady, The end: The human experience of death (Review)

Have you thought about your death? About how and where you want to die? These are the questions Australian science journalist Bianca Nogrady asks us to consider in her recent book, The end: the human experience of death. I'm not a morbid person, but when Nogrady contacted me to ask whether I'd consider reviewing her … Continue reading Bianca Nogrady, The end: The human experience of death (Review)