Given it’s only a few days until the end of the year I
thought it was worth checking in with a post on the Australian Women Writer’s
Challenge. The goal was to read ten books by Australian women writers in 2012
and review four of them, and I’m happy to report that I’ve ticked all off the
list.
Reviews:- Sharp Shooter by Marianne Delacourt (urban fantasy – Stephanie Plum gets psychic)
- The Spare Room by Helen Garner (literary fiction - heartbreaking story of caring for a cancer patient)
- A Few Right Thinking Men by Sulari Gentill (historical crime – murder amidst the political intrigues of 1930s Sydney)
- True Stories - Selected Non-fiction by Helen Garner (non-fiction - significant pieces of Garner's non-fiction work from early in her career to the current day)
- Cooking the Books by Kerry Greenwood (crime – Corinna Chapman solves mysteries while cooking & eating fantastic food)
- On Passion by Dorothy Porter (non-fiction – poetic musings on the nature of passion in its many guises)
- Nothing but Gold by Robyn Annear (non-fiction – life in the Victorian goldfields of 1852)
- The hospital by the River – a Story of Hope by Catherine Hamlin (non-fiction – a pioneering doctor’s work with fistula patients in Addis Ababa)
- Her Father's Daughter by Alice Pung (non-fiction - Pung revisits the family history mentioned in her first book but with a deeper, darker perspective)
- The Fine Colour of Rust by P.A O'Reilly (fiction - a wry look at life as a single mother in a country town)
