by Rachel Franks | Jun 19, 2018 | Book Reviews
Gideon Haigh, A Scandal in Bohemia: The Life and Death of Mollie Dean Penguin / Hamish Hamilton, 310 pp., ISBN: 9780143789574, p/bk, AUS$32.99 Journalist Gideon Haigh is well-known for his engaging full-length works on cricket, business histories and, more recently,...
by Guest reviewer | Jun 19, 2018 | Book Reviews
Joy McCann, Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean. NewSouth Books (2018), 256pp., ISBN 9781742235738, p/bk, RRP: $32.99 The Southern Ocean, the world’s least known and least visited ocean, is the only ocean which flows completely around the earth,...
by Rachel Franks | Jun 12, 2018 | Book Reviews
Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre, edited by Jane Lydon and Lyndall Ryan NewSouth Books, 215 pp., ISBN: 9781742235752, p/bk, RRP AUS$34.99 On 10 June 1838 twelve men, “in an unprovoked act of violent terror” (p. xi), committed an atrocity known today as the Myall...
by Rachel Franks | May 30, 2018 | Book Reviews
Hazel Baron and Janet Fife-Yeomans, My Mother, A Serial Killer HarperCollins Australia Publishers, 239 pp., ISBN: 9781460754528, p/bk, AUS$32.99 Hazel Baron, the daughter of convicted murderer Dulcie Bodsworth, collaborated with journalist Janet Fife-Yeomans to tell...
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...
