Canberra Writers Festival 2024: 1, The most interesting man in OzLit

October 25, 2024 / Whispering Gums / 8 Comments

A preamble The Canberra Writers Festival is back in 2024, with last year's wonderful Artistic Director, the writer and critic Beejay Silcox. The Festival's theme continues to be "Power Politics Passion", although that tagline is not quite so visible on the website. This is good - to my mind at least. Last year, under Beejay … Continue reading Canberra Writers Festival 2024: 1, The most interesting man in OzLit

Rodney Hall, A stolen season (#BookReview)

December 21, 2018December 21, 2018 / Whispering Gums / 39 Comments

Rodney Hall is one of those Australian authors who deserves more attention than he seems to get. Consequently, I'm thrilled to at last include him in my blog, with his latest novel A stolen season. I was introduced to Hall back in the late 1980s when my reading group read his surprising novel, Just relations, … Continue reading Rodney Hall, A stolen season (#BookReview)