Monday, September 15, 2014

Books - Sydney Morning Herald

Janet DeNeefe: Focus on emerging Indonesian writers. SUSAN WYNDHAM 3:14pm The late cancellation of Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul from next month's Ubud Writers and Readers Festival has exposed the fierce competition and delicate negotiations behind the flourishing international festival scene.

Farquharson murder trial under the spotlight

Insight to murder: Helen Garner writes with an empathy for all involved in this horrific case. Owen Richardson The exceptional writing in this true crime book raises the genre to an art reports Owen Richardson.

Khaki Crims and Desperadoes explores criminality among soldiers in the AIF during World War I

Handing over: Soldiers and friends George Bickerstaff and Joseph McQueen pose for a pre-embarkation photograph. Ross Southernwood A well-researched and detailed book, recounting lesser-known but uncomfortable happenings in Australia's Great War story.

Books that changed me

Author Phil Jarratt. Phil Jarratt is the author of more than 30 books, a former editor of Tracks magazine, and a dedicated surfer. His new book is Bali: Heaven and Hell, a combined memoir and history of the ever-changing island he has visited since the 1970s.

Bookshop

Bookshop Leunig Lucy Sussex M Mag dinkus. Thuy On Fiction, philosophy, a memoir on clothes and a child's book about a skunk are reviewed by Thuy On.

Australia's four seasons are really six

<i>Sprinter and Sprummer</i> by Timothy Entwisle. Review by Michael Mobbs "I know spring is near when the City to Surf race comes past here," the owner of a bottle shop on Sydney's Bondi Beach said to me recently as we discussed the coming of spring.

The Paying Guests: by Sarah Waters

Sarah Waters. This is the opening chapter of The Paying Guests, the new novel by Sarah Waters, published by Hachette.

Review: The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis

<i>The Zone of Interest</i> by Martin Amis. Review by Owen Richardson The English author returns to the Holocaust in another novel, writes Owen Richardson. 

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