Early Reviews are Great!
“Mature and nuanced … will be a brilliant classroom text.”
“Highly recommended … an absolute delight.”
“This charming coming-of-age story is perfect”
Good biography, bad biography – two brief book reviews
This year’s winner of the Pulitzer Prize for biography was Caroline Fraser, for Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder. If, like me, you read the Little House on the Prairie books as a child, then you already know all about Laura Ingalls Wilder. She grew up in the 1800s on the American frontier, with…
Book Reviews – where are all the women? Stella Count paints a depressing picture.
For five years the nice people at the Stella Prize have been counting who receives (and writes) book reviews in Australia. No prize, even a stellar one, for guessing who does: men. Despite men writing only 28% of all Australian books published in 2015, books by men received well over half the published reviews. Men’s…