[This is the eighteenth instalment in Ashley Thomson’s No Man’s Land Reading Project.] I will probably realise this generalisation to be false not long after making it, but for now it’s helping me begin a review of a book which isRead more…
No Man’s Land Reading Project – Monkey Grip
[This is the fifteenth instalment in Ashley Thomson’s No Man’s Land Reading Project.] I have mixed feelings about autobiography passed off as fiction, works whose entire chronologies can be linked back to exact places, events and people in their authors’Read more…
No Man’s Land Reading Project – The Shipping News
[This is the thirteenth instalment in Ashley Thomson’s No Man’s Land Reading Project.] There are some rare books that people seem almost universally to agree are excellent. Because of just such agreement, I thought I was in for a sureRead more…
No Man’s Land Reading Project – Thea Astley, The Slow Natives
This is the twelfth instalment in Ashley Thomson’s No Man’s Land Reading Project. A couple of months ago my boss went to see James Patterson talk at Sydney Town Hall. He came back rather enamoured, and mentioned something Patterson hadRead more…