by Rachel Franks | Apr 19, 2018 | Book Reviews
Jill Roe, Miles Franklin: A Short Biography HarperCollins Australia (Fourth Estate), 417 pp., ISBN: 9781460755792, p/bk, AUS$32.99 The first edition of the late Jill Roe’s award-winning work Stella Miles Franklin: A Biography was published in 2008. A decade...
by Rachel Franks | Apr 3, 2018 | Book Reviews
Meredith Lake, The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History NewSouth Publishers, 439 pp. ISBN: 9781742235714, p/bk, AUS$39.99 Meredith Lake’s latest book, The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History (2018), is extraordinary. Lake’s authority as an historian, her skills...
by Rachel Franks | Mar 30, 2018 | Book Reviews
Jamelle Wells, The Court Reporter HarperCollins Australia (ABC Books), 309 pp., ISBN: 9780733337888, p/bk, AUS$32.99 The Court Reporter (2018), described by the publishers as “a tough and fearless journalist’s memoir that looks at the cases that have shocked, moved...
by Rachel Franks | Jan 22, 2018 | Book Reviews
Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver Colonial Australian Fiction: Character Types, Social Formations and the Colonial Economy Sydney University Press, 153 pp, ISBN: 9781743324615, p/bk, RRP AUS$40.00 Colonial Australian Fiction: Character Types, Social Formations and the...
by Rachel Franks | Dec 13, 2017 | Book Reviews, Exhibition Reviews
Underworld: Mugshots from the Roaring Twenties, which has just opened at the Museum of Sydney, is an exploration of crime in a decade that heralded the brave new world that emerged from the devastation of World War I. Curated by the indefatigable Nerida Campbell this...
