Cirrus@Austlit

'Lech Blaine’s Australian Gospel is a quintessentially Australian tale of faith, family, and identity. Blaine explores the fractures of belief and belonging in an effervescent and vivid work of creative nonfiction. But where does the ‘non-’ stop and the ‘fiction’ begin?' (Introduction)

'Tom Hughes was the stuff of legend and it’s not hard to see how the man who had been John Gorton’s Attorney-General from 1969–1971 and went on to become Malcolm Turnbull’s father-in-law should have been such a striking figure on the Australian political and legal scene. There’s the memory of one of the warlords of the Liberal Party, a close associate of Malcolm Fraser, saying of him, “He had a very high manner. Not high camp. Just high.”'