Beatrice Faust

Relationships is a worthy book, scattered with sensible observations and reassuring comments, but locating them is like chewing through sawdust to find sultanas. Terry Collings has splendid credentials. Clinical Director of the Marriage Guidance Council of NSW for the past seven years, he has taught family counselling to both professional and lay groups, and lectured in Britain and the US. His ph ... (read more)

Verna Coleman’s biography of Miles Franklin is extremely valuable but somewhat flawed. Those parts of Franklin’s life that are germane to the mateship tradition and the development of a nationalist Australian literature have been widely canvassed – although they take in only her precocious youth and mellow old age. The crucial decades between 1906 and 1927 are an almost total blank, even tho ... (read more)