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Lagoon, Nnedi Okorafor
Black Africa Project ongoing.. Nnedi Okorafor (1974- ) was born in the US of Nigerian (Igbo) student parents and has since lived/been educated in both countries. We have talked a lot about the...
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Australian Writers: Men’s Week, a Wrap
Journal: 128 My father was fascinated by WWI and put together a couple of books on it. This one is a collection of Australian war poetry, not all by men, but I thought it’s probably his only chance to...
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Sowing Seeds in Danny, Nellie McClung
Nellie McClung (1873–1951) “was a Canadian author, politician, and social activist, who is regarded as one of Canada’s most prominent suffragists” (wiki), so I thought I’d have a look at her first...
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Random Reids
One of you recently recommended Kiley Reid’s Such a Fun Age and I was sufficiently interested to check for it in BorrowBox – in which I rarely find anything I want, but it’s free – and there it was. I...
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A Swim in the Pond in the Rain, George Saunders
George Saunders (1958 – ) is a writer and teacher of writing, “For the last twenty years, at Syracuse University, I’ve been teaching a class in the nineteenth-century Russian short story in...
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The Mahler Erasures, John Kinsella
John Kinsella (1963 – ) is a Western Australian poet and writer who grew up in Perth and Mullewa, in the northern wheatbelt inland from Geraldton, Yamaji Country. He is, amongst other things, a Fellow...
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Pearl, Nellie McClung
Nellie McClung covers young Manitoba farm girl Pearl’s adventures from childhood to young womanhood over the course of three novels:Sowing Seeds in Danny (1908) reviewed last monthThe Second Chance...
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Spirit of the Crocodile, Aaron Fa’Aoso & Michelle Scott Tucker
In Spirit of the Crocodile (2025) biographer Michelle Scott Tucker has tried her hand at YA fiction, and has done it very well. In conjunction with Aaron Fa’Aoso with whom she wrote Aaron’s memoir So...
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ASiaPitR 2, The Singers, Ivan Turgenev
A Swim in the Pond in the Rain, George Saunders Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) spent his childhood on his mother’s estate near Oryol, 460 km SSW of Moscow, and was educated at home and in Moscow. At...
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The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King
Newcastle University’s map of Colonial Frontier Massacres in Australia, 1788-1930 was recently updated and now includes over 200 massacres – defined as “the deliberate killing of six or more...
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