Generous, passionate, creative, prickly, critical, self-doubting, ‘as paradoxical as a platypus’. Miles Franklin defies easy categorisation. Her books, letters and diaries provide evidence of a complex personality, one who often struggled, but …
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If you still haven't acquainted yourself with Murray Whelan, then it's high time you did. With the …
Shane Maloney is one of Australia’s most popular novelists. His award-winning and much loved Murray Whelan series – Stiff, The Brush-Off, Nice Try, The Big Ask, Something Fishy and Sucked In – is characterised by a strong sense of humour and …
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A true classic, The Morality of Gentlemen was first published in 1984. It is one of a few great …
Amanda Lohrey is the author of the acclaimed novels Camille’s Bread, Vertigo and The Morality of Gentlemen, as well as the award-winning short story collection Reading Madame Bovary. She has also written two Quarterly Essays: Groundswell and …
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In the world of high finance, reflects Cath, women are about as welcome as fleas in a sleeping bag. …
Kate Jennings, a poet, essayist, and novelist, comes from the Riverina. She attended Sydney University in the late 1960s, where she gained notoriety as a feminist activist. She moved to New York City in 1979. Her novel Snake (1996) was a New York …
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"Elizabeth Jolley joins the handful of Australian writers of whom it may be said that their books …
Teacher Resource EssayElizabeth Jolley was born in the industrial Midlands of England in 1923, and moved to Western Australia in 1959 with her husband and three children. Acclaimed as one of Australia’s leading writers, she has received many prestigious literary awards…
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Christina Stead was born in Sydney in 1902, and died there in 1983. Most of her life was spent elsewhere: in London, Paris and other places in Europe, and in the United States. Her first book, The Salzburg Tales, was published in 1934, followed by …
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