Monday, November 24, 2014

Books in the Sydney Morning Herald

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THUY ON The story of sexual disease in World War 1 Australian troops is told in The Secrets of the Anzacs, reviewed in brief by Thuy On.

Review: Outline by Rachel Cusk

Rachel Cusk: Characters emerge slowly.ROSS SOUTHERNWOOD Athens is the setting for Rachel Cusk's impressive latest novel.

Books that changed me: Fiona McIntosh

Adventurer: Fiona McIntosh credits author Bryce Courtenay with inspiring her to travel and later to become a novelist.
Fiona McIntosh was born in England, spent her childhood in West Africa and lives in Adelaide but prefers to write in the solitude of southern Tasmania. After a career in the travel industry, she writes full-time. Nightingale, her 28th novel for adults, is published by Michael Joseph.

Wychwood: one of the world's most magical gardens in Tasmania

Spectacular: From Wychwood by Karen Hall and Peter Cooper.ROSS SOUTHERNWOOD WYCHWOOD: THE MAKING OF ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST MAGICAL GARDENS 

Book reviews: The Beat Goes On, Poisoned Ground, Missing


Take Three dinkus
REVIEWER: JEFF POPPLE Jeff Popple searches out three of the latest and best crime fiction.


Matthew Reilly back to his best with The Great Zoo of China

Animal fever: Matthew Reilly says zoos have fascinated him since he was a small boy.KAREN HARDY A book about a zoo has long been simmering in the fertile mind of Australia's high-octane action writer.

Stella Young: The assumption is that people like us die young.Stella Young's letter to herself at 80 years old

STELLA YOUNG I learned the truth at 17. That I was not wrong for the world I live in.
Final tribute: <i>The Book of Strange Things</i>, by Michel Faber.

Michel Faber on the writing of his final novel

ALEXANDRA ALTER Michael Faber's new novel, which he says will be his last, was informed by the knowledge that his partner Eva was dying.

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