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'The new artistic director of the Sydney Writers' Festival, Michaela McGuire, represents a younger generation of event curators in Australia with an impressive range of experience. ...'
'There may come a time when the ghost of Grant McLennan does not sit at his side, but for now Robert Forster is keeping him right here. "This is a line in the sand, but I'm not looking for a cut-off," he says of Grant & I, his touching memoir of a 30-year friendship and artistic collaboration. "I can have Grant in my life right until the end. I don't want to deny that." ...'
'This volume collects in English translation the stories of Pinchas Goldhar. A Polish Jew who moved to Melbourne in 1928, Goldhar – like Sholem Aleichem in America – wrote in Yiddish, although unlike that author his work isn't dominated by nostalgia for the shtetls of Eastern Europe. ...'
'Suggestions of Tasmanian gothic hover over Katherine Johnson's The Better Son, but never quite coalesce into the kind of literary thriller the book promises to be. ...'
'With Goldenhand, fantasy writer Garth Nix returns to the setting of his immensely popular Abhorsen trilogy. It takes up the story of Lirael, a retiring assistant librarian who rises, along with her sister, to wield great power and take down a destructive nemesis, Chlorr of the Mask. ...'