Helen Elliott Helen Elliott i(A35705 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Killer Cat Prowls New World Helen Elliott , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 5-6 October 2024; (p. 17)

— Review of Dusk Robbie Arnott , 2024 single work novel
1 Murder Most Foul and Funny Helen Elliott , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 25-26 November 2023; (p. 13)

— Review of Everyone On This Train Is a Suspect Benjamin Stevenson , 2023 single work novel
1 What’s Right Can Be Wrong Helen Elliott , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 11-12 November 2023; (p. 15)

— Review of Prima Facie Suzie Miller , 2023 single work novel
1 Matters of Life and Beth Helen Elliott , 2023 single work column
— Appears in: The Monthly , March 2023; (p. 64-66)
'WHAT? WHO?  I was holding a book and asking myself these questions. What did I just read? Who wrote this… this parcel of nerves, energy, perception, poetry, philosophy tied with some witty barbed wire? The page was lit. It was also familiar: this was the coup de foudre that lovers feel. Reader, that blow isn’t restricted to people. I had recently felt it with the Italian Elena Ferrante and, more recently still, the French Annie Ernaux.' (Introduction)
1 2 y separately published work icon Eleven Letters to You Helen Elliott , Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2023 25677355 2023 single work autobiography 'In this literary memoir, writer and critic Helen Elliott observes her younger years via these letters to eleven influential people in her life.' 

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1 A Naughty Woman’s Stage Helen Elliott , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 6 August 2022; (p. 14)

— Review of My Giddy Aunt and Her Sister Comedians Sharon Connolly , 2022 single work biography

'Female performers at the turn of the 20th century found both joy and frustration in theatre, writes Helen Elliott n a book crammed with photographs, one is notably arresting. Languid in a chair, her hand up to her frizzy hair, a woman looks straight into the camera. She’s amused, eternally amused. It is a publicity shot for Sarah Bernhardt taken in Sydney in 1891. Bernhardt, always in need of money, was on a world tour and Australians, like the rest of the world, fawned. She was the most famous actress in the world and, scandalously, lived unconventionally both on and off stage. Other women might aspire to be her but there was only one Bernhardt.' (Introduction)

1 Marlo : Jay Carmichael Helen Elliott , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Monthly , August 2022; (p. 56)

— Review of Marlo Jay Carmichael , 2022 single work novel
'MARLO IS ONE of those towns passed through on the way to somewhere else. In the 1950s, when Jay Carmichael’s new novel is set, towns like Marlo were small and, too often, small-minded. Ignorance, inexperience and self-absorption can live hand-inglove with the idea of “community”. Christopher, a young man from a farm, is not a good fi t in Marlo. He needs a place where he can breathe and with the help of his older sister he organises to move to the city, to Melbourne. Marlo opens with his arrival at the station, where, as all country children do, he calls his sister to tell her he’s arrived. He’s safe.' (Introduction)
1 Loveland Robert Lukins Helen Elliott , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Monthly , May no. 188 2022; (p. 64)

— Review of Loveland Robert Lukins , 2022 single work novel
'A BRISBANE WOMAN, May, inherits from her grandmother 24 acres and a lakeside house in Nebraska. Her name is the only pretty thing about May’s life. She is nearly 40 and working as a nanny to a child whose parents treat and pay her as a person from an underclass. She has been married since late teenage years to a controlling, nasty man, and her son, the one person she hoped would make her life redeemable, is becoming a copy of his father. But inheritance equals agency and the words “new start” flood her mind. She could leave her husband. May quits her job and books a flight to Nebraska, to the place called “Loveland”. The name is unintentionally sardonic.' 

(Introduction)

1 Top Sheilas: 12 of the Best Helen Elliott , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26 February 2022; (p. 19)

— Review of Sheilas : Badass Women of Australian History Eliza Reilly , 2022 multi chapter work biography
1 Knockabout Lands New Role in Rattling Yarns Helen Elliott , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 11 September 2021; (p. 14)

— Review of Sweet Jimmy Bryan Brown , 2021 single work novel
1 [Review] Scary Monsters Helen Elliott , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Monthly , October no. 182 2021; (p. 64)

— Review of Scary Monsters Michelle De Kretser , 2021 single work novel
1 [Review] Fury Helen Elliott , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Monthly , May no. 177 2021; (p. 65)

— Review of Fury Kathryn Heyman , 2021 single work autobiography
'Kathryn Heyman is a successful writer, novelist, scriptwriter, teacher. She speaks with rounded vowels, has straight teeth and expensive hair. In publicity shots she looks straight into the camera, exuding middle-class confidence.' (Introduction)
1 Introduction Helen Elliott , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: Grandmothers : Essays by 21st-century Grandmothers 2020;
1 A Ripping Adults’-own Adventure Helen Elliott , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 24 October 2020; (p. 16)

— Review of The Burning Island Jock Serong , 2020 single work novel

'Eliza Grayling is tall, capable, smart. It is 1830, so tall, capable, smart aligns with unmarriageable. Never mind. She is happy enough being thought about in Sydney Town as the tall spinster. She lives alone, in rather slatternly style, and earns her living teaching some appealing young children. She is also looking out for her father, blind and alcoholic, who lives alone on the edge of the bush.'  (Introduction)

1 [Review] The Living Sea of Waking Dreams Helen Elliott , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Monthly , November no. 172 2020;

— Review of The Living Sea of Waking Dreams Richard Flanagan , 2020 single work novel
1 [Review] The Time of Our Lives Helen Elliott , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Monthly , October no. 171 2020; (p. 64)

— Review of The Time of Our Lives Robert Dessaix , 2020 multi chapter work prose
1 Noted : A Room Made of Leaves Helen Elliott , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Monthly , August no. 169 2020; (p. 57)

— Review of A Room Made of Leaves Kate Grenville , 2020 single work novel
1 The Rain Heron : Robbie Arnott Helen Elliott , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Monthly , July no. 168 2020; (p. 57)

— Review of The Rain Heron Robbie Arnott , 2020 single work novel
1 Trek to Truth in the Jungle Helen Elliott , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 2 May 2020; (p. 16)

— Review of Sweetness and Light Liam Pieper , 2020 single work novel

'Connor is an Australian bloke in his early 30s living by his wits in India. He’s in India but he has knocked about the world for so long it could just as easily be Thailand, or Cambodia, or Colombia.' (Introduction)

1 4 y separately published work icon Grandmothers : Essays by 21st-century Grandmothers Helen Elliott (editor), Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2020 18541213 2020 anthology biography

'An anthology of essays by twenty-four Australian women, edited by Helen Elliott, about the many aspects of being a grandmother in the 21st century. It seems so different from the experience we had of our grandmothers. Although perhaps the human essential, love, hasn’t shifted much? In thoughtful, provoking, uncompromising writing, a broad range of women reflect on vastly diverse experiences. This period of a woman’s life, a continuation and culmination, is as defining as any other and the words ‘grand’ and ‘mother’ rearrange and realign themselves into bright focus.

'The contributors: Stephanie Alexander, Maggie Beer, Judith Brett, Jane Caro, Elizabeth Cheung, Cresside Collette, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Helen Garner, Anastasia Gonis, Glenda Guest, Katherine Hattam, Celestine Hitiura Vaite, Yvette Holt, Cheryl Kernot, Ramona Koval, Alison Lester, Joan London, Jenny Macklin, Auntie Daphnie Milward, Mona Mobarek, Carol Raye and Gillian Triggs.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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