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Review of “Aboriginal Environmental Knowledge” by Catherine Laudine
Making space to review books for the Australian Women Writers Challenge has been harder this year than last. I’m not sure if that’s because I’m busier or if I’m holding myself to a higher standard of reviewing, and therefore, am a bit daunted. Aboriginal Environmental Knowledge. Rational Reverence by Catherine Laudine is one of the…
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Riding on Air by Maggie Gilbert
I don’t read much Young Adult, so picking up Maggie Gilbert’s Riding on Air for the Australian Women Writers Challenge is stepping out of my comfort zone. It turned out to be a lovely trip down memory lane, plus left me impressed with the deft handling of some serious issues. As a kid I read…
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On the Home Front. A Review
Thanks to Yvonne Perkins‘ idea to review a war history book in April as part of the broader Australian Women Writers Challenge, I had a bit of a look around my local libraries and came up with Jenny Gregory’s (editor) On the Home Front. Western Australia During World War II. I would have loved to…
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Review of The Colony
The Colony. A History of Early Sydney by Grace Karskens is impeccably and extensively researched, well-written and challenges some of Australia’s more pervasive myths, such as the “damned whores” of the First Fleet and the “fading away” of the Indigenous owners of the lands that became Sydney. Restoring the agency of people such as Bennelong…
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Review of Shattered Sky
Shattered Sky by Helene Young is romantic suspense, but you probably guessed that by the dramatic and gorgeous cover. It’s also real. Real in the sense that the issues that create the suspense are (sadly) real. But also genuine in its descriptions of place and action. Helene Young is a pilot like her heroine, Lauren.…