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Charmian Clift and her husband George Johnston were two of Australia's most celebrated writers of the mid-20th century. They also became famous for their personal lives. Having left Australia at first for England, they then moved to Greece and were key figures of a bohemian, expatriate colony on the island of Hydra. The colony became known as cosmopolitan, whilst also given to heavy drinking and extra-marital affairs. Johnston's fictionalised autobiographical novels provide a frank portrait of their marriage, though Clift was more circumspect. In 'The End of the Morning' we have an autobiographical novella by Clift that has just been published for the first time. It is a charming and evocative account of her childhood growing up near Kiama, on south coast of New South Wales, in a small working-class community. As always, Clift's writing is exquisitely clear and precise. Here we learn about her larger-than-life father, an English migrant…
'In those days the end of the morning was always marked by the quarry whistle blowing the noon knock-off. Since everybody was out of bed very early, morning then was a long time, or even, if you came to think about it, a round time - symmetrical anyway, and contained under a thin, radiant, dome shaped cover'
During the years of the Great Depression, Cressida Morley and her eccentric family live in a weatherboard cottage on the edge of a wild beach. Outsiders in their small workingclass community, they rant and argue and read books and play music and never…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
It's well known that in the 20th century Australia reoriented its dependence on a large northern hemisphere power from Britain to America. The shift in military and security cooperation has been central. Undisputed but harder to pin down has been the cultural realignment. Yves Rees gives us a new, historically rich account of how this reorientation has happened. Based on exhaustive research on a large cohort of Australian women who travelled to the United States between 1910 and 1960 for educational, professional and career reasons, Rees shapes the book around detailed stories of ten women. The ten were all achievers, but across fields ranging from a modernist artist, to a musician, a decorator, a swimmer and an economist. What they had in common was finding opportunity in the modern world of which the United States was the acme. They were drawn to it for its size, fast pace of life,…
A celebrity decorator with blue hair. A single mother who advised JFK in the Oval Office. A Christian nudist with a passion for almond milk.
A century ago, ten Australian women did something remarkable. Throwing convention to the wind, they headed across the Pacific to make their fortune. In doing so, they reoriented Australia towards the United States years before politicians began to lumber down the same path.
For the artist Mary Cecil Allen, this meant spreading the word about American abstract expressionism. For the naturopath Alice Caporn, it meant evangelising fruit juices and salads. For the swimmer Isabel Letham,…
