Eleanor Dark, Timeless Land trilogy (review)
By Jennifer Cameron-Smith
At night the land took back the silence of its centuries, and lay passive as it had done since the dawn of time under the indifferent stars.
Elizabeth Macarthur
The obverse of the Lone Hand (and of his mate, the Brave Anzac) is that it was women who were left to manage not just the home, but the industry which maintains the home.
Jean Curlewis
by Debbie Robson. .. more than anything what I value now, looking back on each of the novels (wishing she hadn’t died so young) is the way Curlewis evokes place
Christina Stead, A Waker and Dreamer (review)
“David’s appearance of whiteness, fairness, dazzled himself.” He was so sure of his own rightness that anyone who opposed him must therefore be evil.
