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
October Round-Up: History Memoir, Biography
Is it the advent of spring, maybe, that prompts us to crack open a new history memoir or biography? During October there were 23 reviews in the History, Memoir and Biography category which is quite a rise from previous months. Perhaps earlier reviews have lured...
More wild places: South Australia, Tasmania and Suburbia
In my last post I commented on far-flung settings. For this catch-up, we continue that theme, with one book set in a coastal town of South Australia and two others set off the coast of Tasmania. Amanda Ortlepp’s Running Against the Tide, has been well-reviewed...
AWW 2012 Challenge Wrap-up: Literary Awards/Classics Part 1
This is a wrap-up of literary awards (with a focus on Miles Franklin Award titles) and Classics reviewed in 2012. In May 2011 I attended Celebrating Varuna: Disturbing the Status Quo, a session at the Varuna component of the Sydney Writers Festival in which feminist...
Stella Miles Franklin: A Biography by Jill Roe – guest reviewer Yvonne Perkins
Today’s guest post is by historian Yvonne Perkins. Yvonne is a dedicated reviewer for the AWW challenge, mainly in the areas of history, memoir and biography. She has just published a review of Stella Miles Franklin: A Biography by Jill Roe. Here she introduces the work to AWW readers, lists reviews of Franklin’s work that have been written for the challenge so far, and suggests other titles which could be reviewed.
