Miles Franklin, My Career Goes Bung (review)
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
David Adams ed., The Letters of Rachel Henning (review)
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...
Louisa Atkinson, Gertrude the Emigrant (review)
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.
Children and Young Adult Round Up: October 2021
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...
Beyond Chernobyl: Women Respond
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...
