Marie Matteson
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Review — 25 Feb 2018
Deep Time Dreaming by Billy Griffiths
In the introduction to Deep Time Dreaming, Billy Griffiths relates an anecdote that Arrernte filmmaker Rachel Perkins shared with him about a conversation she had with John Mulvaney, an…
Review — 24 Sep 2017
Danger Music by Eddie Ayres
Eddie Ayres was 12 when he saw Afghanistan for the first time. It was on television. The Soviets had just invaded. He was 49 when he last left Afghanistan after…
Review — 22 Oct 2017
Saga Land by Richard Fidler & Kari Gíslason
Personally, I could bore anyone on the subject of Iceland, but this book won’t bore you at all! As it seems anyone who has been to Iceland does, Richard Fidler…
Review — 25 Sep 2016
Today Will be Different by Maria Semple
Eleanor Flood is a well off animator living in Seattle with her sports surgeon husband Joe and their 8-year-old son, Timby. Eleanor is generally depressed by her life, which is…
Review — 29 May 2017
Understory by Inga Simpson
‘I see the world through trees. Every window and doorway frames trunks, limbs and leaves.’ Inga Simpson’s memoir Understory, in the tradition of the best nature writing, leads us…
Review — 22 Aug 2016
Trillion Dollar Baby by Paul Cleary
Norway’s discovery and development of huge oil reserves in the North Sea has led to the creation of the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world. In contrast, Australia’s resource…
Review — 25 Jul 2016
Position Doubtful by Kim Mahood
Position Doubtful is an astonishing, sprawling memoir of place. Returning annually to the Tanami desert country in which she had lived as a child on a remote cattle station, Tanami…
Review — 23 Apr 2015
The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall
In Sarah Halls’ fifth novel The Wolf Border, the central subject, the wolves that will begin the rewilding of Britain, are rarely seen. ‘They are fleet or lazy, moving…
Review — 29 Feb 2016
War And Peace: Season 1
Tolstoy’s War and Peace is the classic of classics. Andrew Davies is perhaps the man most synonymous with adapting classics for the BBC. Davies brought us the yardstick by which…
Review — 29 Feb 2016
The Odd Woman and the City by Vivian Gornick
The Odd Woman and the City is Vivian Gornick’s memoir of her most enduring friendship: her friendship with New York. She starts with her friend Leonard. Every week they meet…