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Ukraine Unity
Every conversation in Germany and France, during a recent sojourn, included discussion of the Ukraine war, conveying a palpable feeling…
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Kookynie may be a thriving hub of cosmopolitan life, but after two years of pandemic confinement your International Affairs correspondent…
Putin? PUTAIN!*
Further to Once Upon a Time in Russia and its portrayal of three of the original oligarchs, my new recommendation…
Cradle Mountain Dreaming
PART ONE KINDRED: A Cradle Mountain Love Story by Kate Legge is the engaging biographical story of Gustav Weindorfer and…
‘Wolf Hall’
Hilary Mantel’s epic tome (first in a trilogy) is fictionalised biography of Thomas Cromwell and history of the early Tudor…
Avocado Avenger
DANGER! Here we get to the pointy end of Aussie breakfasts. In the last decade or more, so-called smashed avocado…
Briny Banville
The Sea, a novel by John Banville, is disappointing and full of wordy affectation. Archaic and obscure words are sprinkled…
GOMA is Great
Queensland is not a cultural grey area. Thanks to the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane and the Asia-Pacific Triennial…
‘Conditions of Faith’
Alex Miller’s novel, set in the 1920s, traces the momentous choices facing Emily Stanton, as she moves between Melbourne, Paris,…