Nobody Important (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
While Kate Grenville is an Australian author she is well respected on the international scene, with her book The Secret River , which I reviewed recently, being short listed for the Man Booker Prize. She has a Master's degree and a Doctorate in Creative Writing and her books on the writing process are used widely as textbooks in many writing courses. In addition two of her books have...
Wing's World Web (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville Kate Grenville’s book The Secret River was shortlisted for the Booker in 2006, but I haven’t yet read it. The Lieutenant is my first encounter with Grenville’s work. That’s because I’m wary of historical fiction. However, after Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall I’ve become more accepting of this genre,...
Bibliobibuli (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
... where mutual goodwill and generous curiosity created real understanding. Australian novelist, Kate Grenville (shortlisted for the 2009 Booker Prize for The Secret River ), writes about how the contents of two notebooks brought alive to the friendship between a young lieutenant in a newly formed penal colony at the end of the C18th, and a young aboriginal girl; and how she set about...
