June 2015 Roundup: Historical Fiction

June 2015 Roundup: Historical Fiction

Well, only 14 reviews this month. Very quiet! Perhaps our reviewers were curling up with DVDs instead of books. Four of the fourteen reviewed have already been highlighted in the last few months but here are the links for those who may be new to the roundup. This...
Interview with ‘Addition’ Author Toni Jordan

Interview with ‘Addition’ Author Toni Jordan

Toni Jordan’s debut novel, Addition, was shortlisted for the Barbara Jefferis Award and longlisted for the Miles Franklin in 2009, and has been published in seventeen countries. Her second novel, Fall Girl, was published in Australia, the UK, France, Germany and...
Angela Savage on Nine Days by Toni Jordan

Angela Savage on Nine Days by Toni Jordan

Toni Jordan took as inspiration for her third novel Nine Days a photograph from the archives of The Argus showing, on a crowded platform, a woman held high on a man’s shoulders so she can kiss the soldier leaning towards her from the train window, presumably as...
‘Stella!!’ – AWW tops 1000 reviews

‘Stella!!’ – AWW tops 1000 reviews

Cross-posted from Australianwomenwriters.com. (Will this appear in “News”?) This week the Australian Women Writers Challenge reached a milestone: over 1000 reviews have been linked to the site. We should be celebrating, right? Or should we? Over at Meanjin...