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Kylie Tennant, Tiburon (review)

Kylie Tennant, Tiburon (review)

by Guest Contributor | Feb 8, 2023 | Guest Posts, Reviews

Compassion was, indeed, a scarce commodity in the thirties, vanishing underground with the stream of money and leaving us with dry eroded faces, cracked into grim lines, a desperate humour to defend us from grief

Catherine Helen Spence, A Week in the Future (review)

Catherine Helen Spence, A Week in the Future (review)

by wadholloway | Jan 18, 2023 | Reviews

In the hundred years that had elapsed since I had known the world, first had come a cataclysm sweeping away the old foundations and much that had been reared upon them, and from these had gradually emerged a new society

Kylie Tennant, Ma Jones and the Little White Cannibals

Kylie Tennant, Ma Jones and the Little White Cannibals

by wadholloway | Dec 21, 2022 | Reviews

These are stories of a world whose time, though not foreshadowed here, was coming to an end.

Rosa Praed, The Bond of Wedlock (review)

Rosa Praed, The Bond of Wedlock (review)

by wadholloway | Nov 16, 2022 | Reviews

Obviously, Praed saw women of her time as damned if they did conform to society’s standards and damned if they did not.

Eleanor Dark, Slow Dawning (review)

Eleanor Dark, Slow Dawning (review)

by Debbie Robson | Nov 9, 2022 | Guest Posts, Reviews

by Debbie Robson. To me, as a reader in the 21st century the novel is not the melodrama that Dark and even her biographer, Barbara Brooks, claims it is. I found the book a wonderful barometer of the twenties.

Ernestine Hill, The Great Australian Loneliness (review)

Ernestine Hill, The Great Australian Loneliness (review)

by wadholloway | Sep 21, 2022 | Reviews

It was in July, 1930, that I first set out, a wandering ‘copy boy’ with swag and typewriter, to find what lay beyond the railway lines. Across the painted deserts and the pearling seas

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