Having finally read Wayne Bergmann and Madelaine Dickie's Some people want to shoot me, I am not surprised that it has been shortlisted in the Nonfiction category of this year's Western Australian Premier's Book Awards. It is moving; it is clearly written; and it is informative about big issues. Wayne Bergmann is a Nyikina* man … Continue reading Wayne Bergmann and Madelaine Dickie, Some people want to shoot me (#BookReview)
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Delicious descriptions: Madelaine Dickie on Indigenous language and Uranium
My recent post on Madelaine Dickie's Red can origami was getting too long - and I just couldn't cover in detail all that I wanted to, so I've decided to do one of my rare Delicious Descriptions posts to expand some ideas from the book. Concluding my post, I commented that the novel is an … Continue reading Delicious descriptions: Madelaine Dickie on Indigenous language and Uranium
Madelaine Dickie, Red can origami (#BookReview)
Some writers, I understand, suffer from a thing called "second novel syndrome", which describes the fear of writing a second novel after a successful first one. Well, it's clear that Madelaine Dickie, who won the TAG Hungerford with her first novel Troppo (my review), hasn't suffered from this particular disorder, because her second novel, Red … Continue reading Madelaine Dickie, Red can origami (#BookReview)
Madelaine Dickie, Troppo (Review)
"Write what you know" is the advice commonly given to writers, and this is exactly what Madelaine Dickie has done in her debut novel, Troppo, which won the City of Fremantle TAG Hungerford Award. For readers, on the other hand, the opposite could be true, as in "read what you don't know." This is certainly what I've done … Continue reading Madelaine Dickie, Troppo (Review)
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