A Tim Winton novel

This book was another buy from the Book Fair.  The book was published in 1994 but I had not read it.  The last Tim Winton book I read was Dirt Music, which I loved.  I loved this book too. The book was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1995.  The prize was won by The…

A loveable larrikin?

If you are an Australian you would need to have lived your life in a cave not to know who Ned Kelly is.  From a very early age children are taught about bushrangers in Australia and the most famous of those is Ned Kelly. I have just finished reading The True History of the Kelly…

The Chemistry of Tears

I finished this book last week but have found it difficult to decide how I should review it.  Peter Carey is a novelist of some repute being one of only four writers to have won the Booker Prize twice.  He is an Australian writer. My first reaction to the novel is that it reminded me…