DAVID MARR Political Animal: the Making of Tony Abbott (Quarterly Essay 47). Reviewed by Linda Funnell
He’s anti-abortion and his career owes a debt to Alan Jones. Does Tony Abbott have a problem with women? There’s …
Author Archives: Linda Funnell
EMILY MAGUIRE Fishing for Tigers
Emily Maguire’s vivid novel of expats in Hanoi reveals some uncomfortable truths. Mischa is a thirty-something Australian woman who …
Robert G Barrett: a personal farewell
The creator of the immensely popular Les Norton died on Thursday 20 September 2012. He was a more complex figure than his …
BELINDA CASTLES Hannah and Emil
This third novel from Belinda Castles is a love story, a family saga, and a slice of twentieth-century European and …
SUSAN JOHNSON My Hundred Lovers
Susan Johnson’s new novel is both a woman’s search for love and a meditation on the senses. As Samuel Beckett …
STEVE LEWIS and CHRIS UHLMANN The Marmalade Files. Reviewed by Linda Funnell
This slickly sliced satire offers an insider’s view of federal politics. In a political world that contains all the strange …
JANETTE TURNER HOSPITAL Forecast: Turbulence
These stories of family trauma find their echoes in the elements. In ‘Moon River’, the chapter of memoir that comes …
SOFKA ZINOVIEFF The House on Paradise Street
This timely novel of estranged sisters and a family consumed by history gives a compelling insight into contemporary Greece. The …
WENDY JAMES The Mistake. Reviewed by Linda Funnell
There’s more than one side to this story of a mother accused of murdering her child. It’s impossible to read …
LINDY CAMERON Redback
A girls’-own-adventure with the lot. A beautiful-yet-deadly commander of a crack retrieval team; terrorists of US, European, Arabic and Asian …
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