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Imagined pasts, alternative futures, Craig Cliff
The Necessary Angel C K Stead Allen and Unwin, $37.00, ISBN 9781760631529 Salt Picnic Patrick Evans Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781776561698 Our Future is in the Air Tim Corballis Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781776561179 When a white male…
Tagged with: Allen and Unwin, Autumn 2018, C K Stead, Craig Cliff, Issue 121, Patrick Evans, Tim Corballis, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The gap between fiction and history, Hamish Clayton
R.H.I.: Two Novellas Tim Corballis Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780864739827 Trifecta Ian Wedde Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780864739834 In 1987, the South African novelist J M Coetzee spoke at the Weekly Mail Book Week in Cape Town, offering…
Tagged with: Ian Wedde, Issue 112, Summer 2015, Tim Corballis, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Digging and delving, Tim Corballis and Ingrid Horrocks
The Grass Catcher: A Digression About Home Ian Wedde Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780864739384 The protagonist of the present-day portion of Symmes Hole (1986), Ian Wedde’s canonical and underread novel about settler colonialism, is obsessed with history. He digs…
Tagged with: Ian Wedde, Ingrid Horrocks, Issue 108, Summer 2014, Tim Corballis, Victoria University Press
Posted in Essays, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Forging the real, Louise O’Brien
Hibiscus Coast Paula Morris Penguin, $28.00, ISBN 0143019767 The Fossil Pits Tim Corballis Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864735081 With her debut novel, Queen of Beauty, Paula Morris won both the 2001 Adam Foundation Prize for Creative Writing and the…
Tagged with: Issue 72, Paula Morris, Penguin, Summer 2005, Tim Corballis, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Measure for measure, Jenny Jones
Measurement Tim Corballis Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734433 Writing a review of Tim Corballis’ second novel Measurement feels a bit like writing a review of a review. The fictitious book constantly referred to by the narrator, Measurement by Peter…
Tagged with: Issue 58, Jenny Robin Jones, Tim Corballis, Victoria University Press, Winter 2002
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The cave of making, Chris Else
Below Tim Corballis Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864734131 Let me say at the outset that this is a remarkable novel; subtle, complex, delicately wrought. It is the kind of work that leaves you thinking not just about the material…
Tagged with: Chris Else, December 2001, Issue 51, Tim Corballis, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
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