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Literary Links: Celebrating the literary relationship between Australia and Britain by Roslyn Russell
by Brian Matthews •
Greg Matthews: The Spirit of Modern Cricket by Roland Fishman
by Barry Andrews •
George Johnston by Garry Kinnane & A Foreign Wife by Gillian Bouras
by Patrick Morgan •
The Delinquents by Criena Rohan & Down by the Dockside by Criena Rohan
by Christina Thompson •
When I read fiction I want the words to take my spirit into the places beneath the surface of the everyday world. I want the freshness of dreams to be again revealed to me. I want to know the loveliness and terror of what lies beyond the last star, of what lies sweetly cradled in the blood and juices of the human heart. I long to feel the shock when the tulip spikes the damp soil, feel the blissful impact of the truth, see the glint, the glimmer, the shimmer of another reality. When I read I wish to enjoy the company of the writer and the company of the people and the things in the story, to participate with all of them in the seductive mystery. I desire to be enchanted.
... (read more)Pushed from the Wings: An entertainment by Ross Fitzgerald (illustrated by Alan Moir)
by Paul Marriott •