by wadholloway | Apr 13, 2022 | Reviews
A wallaby would have done just as well as a human being to endure the nothingness of existence as it has been known to me
by wadholloway | Mar 16, 2022 | Reviews
by Bill Holloway A review of the ‘work’ constructed from the letters of Rachel Henning, an emigrant from England to New South Wales in the 1850s. Rachel Henning (1826-1914) came out to Australia, in the wake of her brother Biddulph and sisters Annie and...
by wadholloway | Feb 16, 2022 | Reviews
by Bill Holloway. The ‘first’ Australian novel is contested, but Gertrude the Emigrant: A Tale of Colonial Life (1857) is the first novel whose author was born in Australia.
by Ashleigh Meikle | Nov 17, 2021 | Reviews, Round-ups
October saw the Australians in lockdown emerge for the most part. We had eight young adult reviews and ten for younger readers – perhaps a reflection of slower reading, easing of restrictions and a desire to get out into the weather as it warms up and heads towards...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Feb 16, 2014 | Guest Posts, Reviews
Throughout 2014 AWW will occasionally invite guest authors to review books of interest to challenge participants. Today’s guest author is historical fiction writer, Isolde Martyn. According to the International Nuclear Event Scale of 1 to 7, there have been two...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Dec 14, 2012 | Guest Posts, Reviews
The blurb On a mission to buy a prestigious shoe company, Australian career girl, Gemma Parkinson, arrives in Italy determined to succeed. But when she falls ill, effortlessly handsome local aristocrat, Luca Andretti, is on hand. Suspicious about Gemma’s presence in...