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This work of fiction was written by an award-winning travel writer from Western Australia. The Kimberley, an especially beautiful area in northwest Australia, is really the main character here, and I must say, the most well-drawn one in the book. The other characters are Kate, a well-connected political operator working for an ambitious politician; Cole, a relentlessly nasty developer; Dylan, a...

This sweet book is my last for the celebration of Australian Literature Month hosted by Reading Matters. Thank you, Kim, for doing this. It’s been great fun to read the reviews and find new authors. In fact, it was Kim’s review of this that motivated me to read it. Bruce Beresford who wrote an introduction tells of meeting St. John at Sydney University, along with that great group of...

I put this book on my to-read list when I read about it on Whispering Gums and found that it was available in our public library here in Virginia. I had misgivings about reading yet another book written in the voice of a teenage boy (the two I read in January were excellent, but they do seem to have an overwhelming interest in beer). But it is Reading Matters’ Australian Literature Month...

Another book for Australian Literature Month hosted by Reading Matters. But then you might have suspected that from the kangeroo on the right. When I was a kid, I asked my mother, who grew up on a farm in southern Indiana what the Roaring Twenties were like for her, imagining I would hear about having lots of money, dancing the Charleston, getting her hair bobbed. She said farmers were never...