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Item: The Gospel According To Luke
Author: Louise Swinn

by Louise Swinn •

November 2006, no. 286

The Gospel According To Luke by Emily Maguire

Brandl & Schlesinger, $26.95 pb, 298 pp, 1876040785

Rosie Little’s Cautionary Tales For Girls by Danielle Wood

Allen & Unwin, $22.95 pb, 260 pp, 1741149304

Nice people like you

by Louise Swinn •

November 2006, no. 286

Love, family, hope, death and grief have always been among fiction’s chief concerns. The Gospel According to Luke and Rosie Little’s Cautionary Tales for Girls, both second books from their authors, share many of these themes. The Gospel According to Luke adds faith, belief, religion and prayer; and Emily Maguire adroitly pulls off what would, in lesser hands, be a farce.

Louise Swinn

Louise Swinn is a writer, editor, publisher, and reviewer. Her work appears regularly in the Age, The Australian, and The Sydney Morning Herald. Louise was one of the founders of Sleepers Publishing, the Small Press Network, and the Stella Prize.