Tag Archives: Australia
** The World Beneath by Cate Kennedy
Do all books about Tasmania have to include search and rescue teams in a spectacular physical setting (see Death of a River Guide)? The crisis of The World Beneath takes place on the Cradle Mountain trail rather than the Franklin … Continue reading
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Death of a River Guide by Richard Flanagan
Death of a River Guide tells the story of, well, a dying river guide. Aljaz Cosini is drowning in a Tasmanian river, trying to save a tourist from the swollen water, and as he dies he tells the complicated story … Continue reading
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Addition by Toni Jordan
Additionstarts out as the memoir of a woman obsessed with counting everything, from the bananas she buys at the supermarket to the steps she takes to get there. Actually it’s the bananas that get the book started since she must … Continue reading
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The Good Parents by Joan London
I liked The Good Parents a lot and I’m not sure why the critics did not rush to deliver a more enthusiastic response to it. It’s the story of an Australian family through three generations delivered as a series of … Continue reading
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The Lure of the Bush by Arthur Upfield
The Lure of the Bush has a lot going for it: a detective with the magnificent name of Napoleon Bonaparte (Bony for short), an elaborate mystery a la Sherlock Holmes, in which we know pretty much from the start what … Continue reading
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A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Tolz
A Fraction of the Whole is a grandiose saga of the Dean family, starting and ending in Australia but ranging to Paris and Thailand with unprobable situations every few pages but anchored in the outsized and definitely out-of-the-norm personalities of … Continue reading
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