The Red Witch
May 2022 Book of the MonthNathan Hobby evokes the ghost of Katharine Susannah Prichard (1883–1969) with reverence, research and warmth in his comprehensive biography, The Red Witch. The first half of the book chronicles ...
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Second Innings: On Men, Mental Health and Cricket
September 2021 Book of the MonthSecond Innings: On Men, Mental Health and Cricket (2021) is Barry Nicholls’ reflection on his life to date. Nicholls explores his past and heritage, carefully plotting the small and grand experiences ...
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Father of the Lost Boys, Yuot A. Alaak (Fremantle Press)
June 2020 Book of the MonthDuring the Second Sudanese Civil War, thousands of South Sudanese boys were displaced from their villages or orphaned in attacks from northern government troops. Many became refugees in Ethiopia, ...
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Shadow Lines, Stephen Kinnane (Fremantle Press)
May 2020 Book of the MonthThe reissuing by Fremantle Press of Stephen Kinnane’s award winning Shadow Lines is indeed a cause for celebration. Both a deeply researched archival investigation into the assimilationist policies of ...
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Kathleen O’Connor of Paris, Amanda Curtin (Fremantle Press)
November 2018 Book of the MonthArtist Kathleen (Kate) O’Connor left conservative Perth in 1906 to pursue a life as an artist in Paris. She was a contemporary of Madame Curie, Lucien Simon and Isaac ...
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Simply Ing (as told to Margaret O’Brien), Helen (Ing) Nellie and Margaret O’Brien (Magabala Books)
August 2018 Book of the MonthHelen Ing Nellie’s telling of her story charts a life that is often harsh and marked by tragedy, part of the larger tragic history of the cultural and literal ...
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Anne Aly’s autobiography charts her remarkable life, one packed with incident and achievement. Aly has a life-long interest in ordinary people’s stories and is a great story teller. Told ...
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