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What’s in a Name?
I am – as all my booklover friends know – a sucker for lists and so I was immediately intrigued to discover this quirky reading challenge. The blogger – who has no profile that I can find so may well...
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Amy’s Children by Olga Masters
You’re not going to find it easy to get hold of a copy of this book. It’s long out of print and there are only a few secondhand ones available online. That’s a shame, because Amy’s Children is said...
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The Burning Library, by Geordie Williamson
My first response to seeing the chapter headings in Geordie Williamson’s The Burning Library, Our Great Novelists Lost and Found was, ‘Oh good, I’ve read most of these authors!’ That’s not as facile...
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Sensational Snippets: The Home Girls, by Olga Masters
Olga Masters (1919-1986) was a late bloomer who began her career at 63 and died just six short years later. As Geordie Williamson says in the introduction to this collection of short stories, she...
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Sensational Snippets: Loving Daughters, by Olga Masters
Olga Masters (1919-1986) was a journalist, novelist and short story writer who won the National Book Award in 1983 for her short story collection The Home Girls (1982). Loving Daughters (1984) was...
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Loving Daughters, by Olga Masters
In prosperous, comfortable, complacent 21st century Australia, it’s somewhat chastening to read this first novel from Olga Masters (1919-1986). Set in a small farming community south of Sydney after...
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