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!,,3(/03/0%.$!93sCARLTON 309 LYGON 34sHAWTHORN 701 GLENFERRIE RD 9819 1917 s MALVERN 185 GLENFERRIE RD 9509 1952 s PORT MELBOURNE 253 BAY ST 9681 9255 s ST KILDA 112 ACLAND ST 9525 3852 s WWW.READINGS.COM.AU s EMAIL [email protected] The Readings Events in October the U All our events are free, unless otherwise stated. For more information, please call the shop where the event is to be held, or the booking number provided. versi Read Tues Car 6 DAVID HILL 8 DAVID DAY internet, the police and the media. This event is held in association In his new book The Henson Case with Sport and War, an Australian The Never before, or since, has there Andrew Fisher: (Text, PB, $24.95), acclaimed War Memorial travelling exhibi- Cen been an experiment quite as bold Prime Minister of journalist David Marr tells the tion. Saturday 11 October, Mel as this. Set against the backdrop Australia (Harper- story of an extraordinary uproar 2.45pm for 3pm sharp, State on e of Georgian England, the story of Collins, HB, already passing into myth. Drawing Library at the Village Road- with the First Fleet is one of courage, Normally $49.95, on key documents, and the show Theatrette (Entry 3, La subj of short-sightedness, of tragedy Our special price revealing testimony of many of the Trobe Street). Free, but please but, above all, of extraordinary $39.95) by principal players, including Bill book on 9347 6633. 15 resilience. It is also, of course, the award-winning Henson himself, Marr writes of a story of the very first European historian David Day is the story of nation divided and a witch-hunt Australians, reluctant pioneers who Australia’s first elected Labor Prime 13 AUSTRALIAN Chri that went wrong. glob traveled into the unknown. In 1788 Minister. Prime Minister Andrew INSTITUTE OF Thursday 9 October, 7pm, Toky (Heinemann, PB, Normally $34.99, Fisher was one of Australia’s great INTERNATIONAL Cinema Nova, Carlton. Free, to M Our special price $29.99), using nation-builders, yet his story is AFFAIRS but please book on 9347 6633. diaries, letters and official records, largely – and unjustly – unknown. See our website for recip David Hill artfully reconstructs the Join us for an interesting journey details of this monthly a sen experiences of these famous and through past times. Wednesday 10 PATTI SMITH forum: www.readings. HB, infamous men and women of his- 8 October, 6.30pm, Readings We are honoured com.au. Monday 13 October, price tory, combining narrative skill with Carlton. Free, but please book on to have legendary 6.30pm, Readings Carlton. insp an eye for detail and an exceptional 9347 6633. singer/songwriter Free, no need to book. your empathy with the people of the past. Patti Smith join us of A Her Monday 6 October, 6.30pm, 8 KATE GRENVILLE prior to her 14 GEOFF BOUCHER Readings Carlton. Free, but performances at in th Daniel Rooke, a & MATT SHARPE please book on 9347 6633. the Melbourne International Arts nate young lieutenant, The Honourable Festival to talk about her creative ing r arrives in New John Cain will influences. Friday 10 October, from 6 KATHY LETTE South Wales on the launch The Times 1pm, Readings Carlton. Free, Lond Set in Sydney’s First Fleet in 1788, Will Suit Them but please book on 9347 6633. and Cronulla, Kathy’s and sets up an (A&U, PB, $35). Rest new book To Love, observatory away from the main This book digs 2007 Honour and Betray: camp, to begin the scientific work 10 IAN GAWLER behind the 6.30 Till Divorce Us Do that will make him famous. In 1984 Gawler wrote what has headlines to explain Book Part (Bantam, PB, Aboriginal people soon start to visit become a legendary bestseller. You the success of Howard’s radical new wine Normally $32.95, Our special price his isolated promontory, and a child Can Conquer Cancer has sold over conservatism. It shows how the Plea $27.95) is a laugh-out-loud read. named Tagaran begins to teach him 200,000 copies in 13 languages Howard government and its small Join Kathy, author of Puberty Blues, her language. An extraordinary and continues to inspire people all legion of culture warriors responded 15 as she takes us on her journey. friendship forms, and Rooke has over the world. Today Ian Gawler to deep changes engendered by two Monday 6 October, 6.30pm, almost forgotten he is a soldier is a world-renowned healer and his decades of economic reform by Brou Readings Hawthorn. Free, but when a man is fatally wounded in Gawler Foundation, a residential importing moral agendas from the Kild please book on 9819 1917. the infant colony. In this profoundly program for cancer patients and US. The result was a brand of deeply us fo moving novel Kate Grenville returns their families. Ian Gawler: The post-modern conservatism which Ben undermined much that traditional door 7 ROBERT DESSAIX to the landscape of her much-loved Dragon’s Blessing by Guy Allenby conservatives hold dear. Tuesday It wo One Sunday bestseller The Secret River. Inspired (A&U, PB, $35) is an honest 14 October, 6.30pm, Readings the M afternoon in a by the notebooks of William Dawes, and raw portrayal of an unortho- The Lieutenantis a compelling story dox, compassionate, laconic and Carlton. Free, no need to book. the r secluded valley in they Normandy, Robert about friendship and self-discovery courageous Australian. Friday 10 October, 6.30pm, Readings and Dessaix chanced by a writer at the peak of her 14 MICHAEL CHINOY Hawthorn. Free, no need to book. 15 O upon the castle powers. Wednesday 8 October, Join Mike Chinoy to share his 6.30pm, Readings Hawthorn. 3 Fi where the famous unique and expansive insider’s Free, but book on 9819 1917. $85 French writer 11 JONATHAN KING perspective on the North Korean book André Gide spent his childhood. Using hundreds of extraordinary nuclear crisis and other issues mea Recalling the excitement he felt 9 DAVID MARR eyewitness accounts of the Diggers central to the security of Asia and avail when he first read Gide as a In May 2008 a in the trenches, The Western Front the US in this rare appearance in Kild teenager, Robert set off to recapture ferocious media Diaries (Simon & Schuster, PB, Melbourne. Mike Chinoy is the what it was that once drew him so campaign led $49.95), reproduces their private Edgerton Senior Fellow on Asia 15 strongly to this enigmatic figure. police to close Bill diaries, letters and postcards to tell at the Pacific Council on Interna- Arabesques (Picador, HB, Normally Henson’s new of their heart-rending experiences, tional Policy in Los Angeles. He is $49.99, Our special price $39.99) is exhibition. The battle by battle. With its gallery visiting Australia to promote his Join Robert Dessaix and travel memoir at Prime Minister of unpublished photographs, 90 most recent book Meltdown: The auth their absolute finest. Robert Dessaix called his pictures years on, The Western Front Diaries Inside Story of the North Korean Can is a writer, interviewer, translator ‘absolutely revolting’. Galleries tells the stories of these Australian Nuclear Crisis (Henry Holt, HB, talki and broadcaster. Tuesday 7 stripped them from their walls. soldiers and finally gives them their $49.95), a highly-acclaimed exposé behi October, 6.30pm, Readings While Henson remained silent, a historical due. Jonathan King has based on hundreds of interviews have Hawthorn. Free, but please book debate raged about art, children, written 25 books on Australian his- and 14 trips to North Korea. This ular? on 9819 1917. censorship, paedophilia, the tory (including three on Gallipoli). event is co-presented by Asialink at such 2 Events

The University of Melbourne and Why aren’t more people speaking 21 TRACEY LISTER did not vote. And they were very the US Studies Centre at the Uni- out loud against the farcical nature close to the then Prime Minister & ANDREAS POHL versity of Sydney and supported by of this trend? Wednesday 15 Koto (Hardie John Howard. Michael Bachelard, Readings Books, Music and Film. October, 6.30pm, Readings Grant, PB, $45) author of Behind the Exclusive Tuesday 14 October, 6.30pm, Carlton. Free, but please book on is a culinary Brethren (Scribe, PB, $32.95) was Carrillo Gantner Basement 9347 6633. journey through formerly part of The Age’s investiga- Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia an Vietnam, written tive team, and now writes for The Centre, The University of - 16 CHRIS by well-known Sunday Age. In 2008 he won a Quill Melbourne. Free, but please book award for best news report in print. WALLACE-CRABBE Melbourne chef, on [email protected] Wednesday 22 October, te David Hansome will be launch- Tracey Lister and with ‘CNN- Mike Chinoy’ in the 6.30pm, Readings Hawthorn. - ing much-loved poet Chris’s new her husband Andreas Pohl. Tracey is subject line. Free, but book on 9819 1917. La collection of poetry, Telling a Hawk well placed to write about Vietnam- e from a Handsaw (Carcanet, PB, ese food, having lived there for five 15 CHRISTINE $29.95). Find out why Melbourne years, after going over to help set up 22 JOHN BARRON MANFIELD is the poetry centre of the country the restaurant Koto, which trains IN CONVERSATION WITH

Christine Manfield has traversed the over a glass of wine. Thursday 16 disadvantaged and street kids to TONY WILSON globe in search of inspiration, from October, 6.30pm, Readings be chefs. Inspired by their experi- John Barron, ABC news radio host Tokyo to Istanbul and from Mexico Carlton. Free, no need to book. ences at Koto, Tracey and Andreas and author of Vote for Me: The Long to Marrakech. With more than 300 have produced a stunningly photo- Road to the Whitehouse (PB, $29.95) recipes infused with fire, spice and graphed book that moves through 16 MICHELLE SCHWARZ is coming to town. ‘John Barron has a sense of adventure, Fire (Lantern, the regions of Vietnam, bringing produced a thorough and thor- y IN CONVERSATION WITH s. HB, Normally $99.95, Our special local food and ingredients to life oughly entertaining account of the DAMIEN CARRICK price $79.95) is full of ideas and with the tales of the people they met most fascinating U.S. Presidential r, A gripping inspiration for your next meal or along the way. Join us to hear Tracey campaign in a generation. Forget courtroom drama your next big trip. Manfield is one and Andreas and enjoy a Viet- Kevin07... my vote’s for Barron08.’ and a fearless work of Australia’s most celebrated chefs. namese feast from the cookbook. – The Chaser’s Julian Morrow. of investigative Her professional culinary life started Tuesday 21 October, 6.30pm, Wednesday 22 October, journalism, A in the mid 1980s and has culmi- North Fitzroy Star. $85 per 6.30pm, Readings Carlton. Free, Question of Power nated to date in three groundbreak- person. Includes a copy of the cook- but please book on 9347 6633. is the story of a e ing restaurants: Paramount, Sydney book Koto and a three-course meal. man who spent his from 1993 to 2000, East@West, Bookings essential and places life gaining power only to be 23 BRUCE PETTY es London from 2003 to early 2005, limited, phone 0437 004 711. accused of its ultimate abuse. For nearly half and Sydney again with Universal Geoff Clark was once the most a century Bruce 5). Restaurant, which opened in August 21 SENKA powerful Aboriginal man in Petty’s anarchic 2007. Wednesday 15 October, BOZIX-VRBANCIC Australia. As chairman of ATSIC and brilliantly 6.30pm, Readings Hawthorn. Senka’s book Tarara: The cultural he was at the pinnacle of his career incisive art has plain Bookings essential: $15. Includes politics of Croat and Maori identity when, in 2001, newspaper reports enlivened the pages new wine and tastes from her latest book. in New Zealand (Otago University revealed that four women accused of our newspapers Please call 9819 1917. Press, PB) examines Maori-Cro- him of rape. In A Question of and magazines. all atian relationships. This is a signifi- Power (Black Inc., PB, $29.95), Petty’s Parallel Worlds, edited by ded cant contribution to ideas about 15 BEN O’DONOGHUE Michelle Schwarz interviews the Russ Radcliffe, showcases the range two migration and displacement and an Brought to you by Readings St key players in the case: Clark, the of Petty’s artistic styles as well as his important discussion of the impact Kilda and Sapore Restaurant, join women who accused him, their intellectual and moral concerns. he of different social models – colo- us for a special night to celebrate respective supporters and lawyers. Join us for a private screening of eeply nialism, assimilation, biculturalism, Ben O’Donoghue’s new book, Out- She digs deep to show the story Bruce’s work and an opportunity h and multiculturalism – on Maori door (Hardie Grant, HB, $49.95). behind the case and explores the to meet the great man himself. nal and Croatian identity and memory. It works like this: Ben, from Surfing Thursday 23 October, 6.30pm, y hard questions it raises. Was this a Tuesday 21 October, 6.30pm, the Menu fame is friends with all at Cinema Nova, Carlton. Free, ngs case of trial by media? Was there Readings Carlton. Free. the restaurant Sapore and together more to the story than the first but please book on 9347 6633. they want to have a night of talking reports suggested? What do we and sharing. Join in! Wednesday 22 MICHAEL BACHELARD really know about Geoff Clark? 24 SUE COLE 15 October, 6.30pm, Sapore, Tuesday 16 October, 6.30pm, IN CONVERSATION WITH In Victorian England, Thomas Tallis 3 Fitzroy Street, St Kilda. Cost Readings Hawthorn. Free, but JULIAN BURNSIDE was ever-present: in performances of $85 includes a copy of the new please book on 9819 1917. Out of nowhere in his music, in accounts of his biogra- n book Outdoor and a three-course 2004, an obscure phy, and through his representation meal. Limited places. Tickets religious sect burst 17 PAUL MILLER in physical monuments. Known nd available only through Readings St onto the political AKA DJ SPOOKY in the nineteenth century as the n Kilda. Please book on 9525 3852. stage in Australia. Paul D. Miller (aka ‘Father of English Church Music’, e Almost unheard of DJ Spooky that Tallis occupies a central position a until then, the 15 BEN CANAIDER AKA Subliminal Kid) is in the history of the music of the a- Exclusive Brethren GAVIN CANARDEAUX a conceptual artist, Anglican Church. Thomas Tallis e is was suddenly spending up big in Join us for a talk by Ben Canaider, writer, and and his Music in Victorian England s election advertising in support of author of Cuisine du Moi (Gavin musician living and (Sue Cole, Boydell & Brewer, HB, e conservative political parties. But its Canardeaux, A&U, PB, $29.95), working in New York. Come see DJ $149.95) tells his story. Friday 24 members were shy to the point of talking about the actual agenda Spooky and hear him play a couple October, 6.30pm, Readings B, paranoia about who they were behind the book – that is, why of tracks live in-store. Friday 17 Carlton. Free, no need to book. posé — preferring, as they said, to ‘fly have celebrity chefs become so pop- October, 5pm, Readings s under the radar’. Brethren members ular? Why has ‘food porn’ become Carlton. Free, but please book This assiduously lobbied politicians, but More October Events over page >> k at such a big social phenomenon? on 9347 6633. Events

24 RITA MAULUCCI takes the teacher–student sex taboo denial have been drawn together, Kids Events Th & DAVID BOTTOMLEY and turns it on its head. We are proving that the nature of historical These days, people all, he argues, expatriates from denial remains relatively consistent. 12 FAIRY DAY WITH Lite are so preoccupied the country of our childhood, Associate Professor Tony Taylor ANNA PIGNATARO with focusing all determined to believe we did things teaches and researches at Monash Join Anna PRI their energy on the more innocently there. But adoles- University. He was Director of the Pignataro to hear LIT day-to-day tasks of cence is far from innocent, and in Australian Government’s National her latest book read working, maintain- this novel it’s a volatile interlude Inquiry into the Teaching and out loud. Anna ing relationships, with tragic consequences. Join us to Learning of History between 1999 Pignataro is author running house- meet award-winning author Peter. and 2000 and was author of the and illustrator of holds and worrying about their Monday 27 October, 6.30pm, Inquiry’s report ‘The Future of the Princess and Fairy: health and money that they are Readings Carlton. Free, but Past’. Tuesday 28 October, A Very Sparkly stressed, anxious and depressed. please book on 9347 6633. 6.30pm, Readings Carlton. Free, Christmas (Scholastic, HB, With exercises and questionnaires but please book on 9347 6633. $19.99). Join in craft activities and to complete throughout, Stop 27 ETHICS CAFE prizes for fairies! Sunday 12 Last Surviving, Live Your Life (Fairfax, Associate Professor Dr Janna 30 MAGGIE ALDERSON October, 10.30am, Readings Kevi PB, $24.95) provides the tools to Thompson from La Trobe Univer- How To Break Your Port Melbourne. Free, but please Min move beyond living life in survival sity will discuss Ethics and Femi- Own Heart book on 9681 9255. AM mode and to exceed expectations. nism. Janna is a very experienced (Penguin, PB, Prim David is a registered psychologist and respected philosopher. Her $32.95, November) 18 JOAN VAN LOON the M with a private practice and Rita has research interests are in feminist is the story of & CHANTAL STEWART Hou written and presented courses in atten political theory, global justice and Amelia Bradlow Celebrated the fields of parenting, emotional inclu environmental ethics. It promises who seems to have children’s author intelligence, counselling, resilience, auth to be a special evening. everything she and illustrator self-esteem, self-confidence, mem Monday 27 October, 6.30pm, needs to be truly, madly, deeply team, Joan van relationships and self-improve- com Readings Hawthorn. Free, no happy. Everything, that is, except Loon and ment. Friday 24 November, truly need to book. the thing she wants most – a baby. Chantal Stewart, 6.30pm, Readings Hawthorn. UK, Ed, her husband, is funny, have teamed up Free, no need to book. knew 29 MAGGIE BEER affectionate and sophisticated but for the fourth Following last simply not interested in parenthood. time with their new picture book, At $ 26 ANNE SUMMERS year’s brilliant Maggie Alderson brings her deep Teaching the Teacher (Penguin, HB, fictio In her challenging, night with Maggie, understanding of the human heart $27.95). This is a delightful, hu- riche provocative essay we wanted her to this new novel about the morous story that reminds us what mos On Luck (MUP, back. And lucky compromises we make in life, and it’s like to be young again. Told be m HB, $19.95), Anne for us – she’s about those rare moments of grace from the perspective of a boy with earn Summers picks coming! Her latest when we decide to risk everything a vivid imagination, this much- was apart Australians’ book, Maggie’s for the chance to be truly, deeply loved teacher will have to brave the altho cherished belief in Kitchen includes 120 favourite and madly happy. Thursday 30 perils of the school bully, a trip to surp October, 6.30pm, Readings luck and being recipes she has shared with her the nurse’s office, and negotiate the after Hawthorn. lucky, and suggests that maybe we television audience as well as the Free, but please book monkey bars; but always with the with can do better. She explores the everyday basics Maggie believes on 9819 1917. help of her students! Saturday But gambling culture that is so intrinsic form the foundations of cooking. 18 October, 2pm, Readings Min to being Australian, corruption in Featuring the seasonal produce that 30 READINGS IN Port Melbourne. Free, no need to b business, the economy, our has become synonymous with the PSYCHOANALYSIS to book. tribu obsession with being ‘The Lucky name Maggie Beer, this collection Russell Grigg will talk about mad Country’, and which Australian city will remind us daily of the joys of Charles Shepherdson’s book Lacan 19 FART DAY WITH talke is the best example of a place that cooking and the pleasures of the And The Limits Of Language. This FELICE ARENA book has relied on its luck and lost. Anne table. Wednesday 29 October, event, presented with the Deakin Join us to make on t Summers has worked in politics, the 6.30pm, Readings Hawthorn. Masters Program in Psycho-analytic some noises. Felice media and the non-government With $15 includes tastes from her book Studies, is part of our regular series Arena is the author sector in Australia, Europe and the ing G and a glass of wine. Bookings discussing the latest publications in of the bestselling United States. She ran the Office of Germ essential on 9819 1917– and act psychoanalysis. Please join us for a Specky Magee series the Status of Women for Prime it wa quickly. We sold out last year. glass of wine and informal discus- and he has just Minister Bob Hawke from 1983 to to tw sion. Thursday 30 October, written the first 1986 and was a political adviser to First 28 6.30pm, Readings Carlton. book in a new Prime Minister Paul Keating. She is TONY TAYLOR Con IN CONVERSATION WITH Free, no need to book. series, titled Farticus Maximus and a former editor of Ms. magazine as th other Stories That Stink (Scholastic, (New York) and Good Weekend and ROBERT MANNE prize 31 PB, $14.99). You will find it is author of several books, including Denial (MUP, PB, OFFSET TheZ disturbingly funny. So will your the now classic Damned Whores and $34.95) investigates Another year has flown by and PB, the baffling children. Felice is an ex-actor God’s Police. Sunday 26 October, here we are again celebrating the duri (Home and Away) and is fabulous 4.30pm, Readings Hawthorn. spectacle known as wonderful talent from VUT shown recto and knows lots about farts. Free, please book on 9819 1917. historical denial – in the latest edition of Offset. ‘The find the obliteration of Bean Episode’ by Paddy O’Reilly Sunday 19 October, 10.30am, anim authentic accounts will feature and Paddy will give a Readings Port Melbourne. Free, Hou 27 PETER of the past to reading on the night. Friday 31 but please book on 9681 9255. won GOLDSWORTHY distract us from genuine historical October, 6.30pm, Readings cura Everything I Knew (Hamish Ham- understanding. For the first time, Carlton Free, no need to book. Och ilton, PB, $32.95) is a sexual farce the ideological and psychological HB, with a serious heart. Goldsworthy elements involved in historical origi

4 This Month’s News Literary news of all kinds, award winners, guest reviewers, Readings offers and promotions. PRIME MINISTER’S their museum shelves and looks at which HarperCollins are bringing BRIDESHEAD REVISITED the stories behind them. out in paperback ($35) this month. ar LITERARY AWARDS GIVEAWAY Buy the film tie-in read Australia is littered with literary MWF BESTSELLERS edition of a prizes. Many of them seem to be Brideshead hor an arbitary way of encouraging our This year’s Revisited (Penguin, of writers, but a large national prize, Melbourne Writers’ PB, $24.95) and ry: backed by the Prime Minister (and Festival, the first at receive a double well run) could be a boon in the Federation Square, in-season pass to future – this year, it’s largely gone was a success in see the film nd unnoticed. every way, with (released 23 October) at Cinema Last month the Prime Minister, — Mark Rubbo increases in both s Kevin Rudd, accompanied by the ticket sales and Nova. A limited number of passes ease Minister for the Arts, Peter Garrett book sales. The top ten bestselling are available. If you haven’t yet read AM, announced the inaugural LA MAMA IS SAVED! authors at the festival were (in this delicious classic of twentieth- Prime Ministers Literary Awards in The iconic Carlton order): Nam Le, Germaine Greer, century literature, do it now. See the Mural Hall of Parliament theatre company Don Watson, David Sedaris, David page 13 for review. La Mama has been Francis, Barry Kosky, Jenny Lee, ART House. The presentation was attended by over 100 people, saved! Only two Najaf Mazari, David Rakoff and READINGS EXCLUSIVE including many of the shortlisted weeks out from the Robert Muchamore. OFFER: PATTI SMITH DVD or authors, the judges of the awards, extended date of To celebrate our members of the Canberra literary 30 September to THE AGE BOOK Patti Smith community, publishers and yours raise $1.8 million OF THE YEAR AWARDS in-conversation truly. Like the Booker Prize in the to secure the purchase of the The Melboure Writers’ Festival event at Readings, rt, UK, none of the shortlisted authors Faraday Street home in Carlton, La was kicked off with the Age Book we are lucky to be p knew whether they were winners. Mama achieved its goal. A Federal of the Year Awards. Don Watson able to offer her Government contribution of won the overall Book of the Year Dream of Life DVD ok, At $100,000 each, the prizes, for $175,000 helped the theatre get as well as the prize for non-fiction for $34.95, ahead HB, fiction and non-fiction, are the over the line. ‘This special one-off for American Journeys (Knopf, HB, of its November release. For details - richest in the land; a prize that for grant is in recognition of the rich Normally $49.95, Our special price of the Patti Smith event, see p2. what most Australian authors would cultural history of La Mama and its $29.95). He went on to sell out all be many times the royalties they role in the development of our of his sessions at the festival – co- SHASHI THAROOR ith earned from their books. The Prize emerging young artists’, said the incidence, timing (the approach of BACKLIST AVAILABLE was part of Labor’s election policy, Minister for the Environment, the US elections) or just the mark Shashi Tharoor the although it caught most people by Heritage and the Arts, Peter of a very good book? Or all three, was a major hit to surprise, and was put in train soon Garrett. ‘It’s been incredibly perhaps ... Tim Winton won the at the recent Byron the after the election – and it showed, affirming how generous the artistic fiction prize for Breath (Hamish Bay Writers’ he with a slightly rough organisation. community, philanthropic Hamilton, HB, Normally $45, Our Festival where he But the Prime Minister and the organisations and local Council, special price $34.95) – his first ever was promoting s Minister seemed genuinely pleased State and Federal Government has Victorian literary prize. And J.S. his latest book, ed to be able to acknowledge the con- been’, said Artistic Director Liz Harry won the poetry prize for Not `The Elephant, the tribution Australian writers have Jones. Readings contributed Finding Wittgenstein (Giramondo, Tiger and the Cell Phone: India: made to our cultural fabric and $20,000 to the effort. PB, $24.95). The Emerging 21st Century Power. talked lavishly about the influence As a former diplomat for India at books had had on their lives and THE BOOKER SHORTLIST VICTORIAN PREMIER’S the United Nations, Tharoor has on the nation. The shortlist has LITERARY AWARDS been in an ideal position to watch lice With shortlisted authors includ- been announced The Melbourne the great economic growth and hor ing Gail Jones, Tom Keneally, for the Man Writer’s Festival cultural changes occurring in India g Germaine Greer and Clive James, Booker Prize! One finished with the and he puts his unique perspective ries it was a surprise to see the prizes go Australian has announcement of to good use in this best-selling book. to two relatively unknown authors. made the cut – the Victorian Tharoor also has an impressive back- First-time Melbourne author Steve Steve Toltz’s debut Premier’s Literary list that showcases his trademark Conte won the fiction prize (or novel A Fraction of Awards. The Vance versatility, curiosity and sense of nd as the PM liked to refer to it, the the Whole, which Penguin is Palmer Prize for humour. Ranging from fiction (The ic, prize from the Senate) for his novel bringing out in a new smaller Fiction went to Helen Garner for Great Indian Novel, Riot, Show Busi- The Zookeepers War (Fourth Estate, format paperback (and smaller The Spare Room (Text, HB, $29.95) ness) and current affairs (India: From PB, $28.99). Set in the Berlin Zoo price, at $24.95) just for the and the Nettie Palmer Prize for Midnight to Millenium) to memoir during World War II, the zoo’s di- occasion. It joins Aravind Adiga’s Non-Fiction went to Meredith (Nehru: The Invention of India) and us rector and his Australian wife must The White Tiger (Atlantic, PB, Hooper for The Ferocious Summer: musings (Bookless in Baghdad: And find ways to protect and keep the $32.95), Sebastian Barry’s The Palmer’s Penguins and the Warming Other Writings about Reading), some m, animals alive. The non-fiction (or Secret Scripture (Faber, PB, $32.95), of Antarctica (Profile, PB, $32.95). of Tharoor’s best work is now avail- Free, House of Representatives) prize was Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies Brigid Lowry won the Prize for able at Readings. If you’re interested won by South Australian Museum (Hodder, PB, $32.99), Linda Young Adult Fiction for Tomorrow in fiction by Indian writers or want curator Phillip Jones for his book Grant’s The Clothes on Their Backs All Will Be Beautiful (A&U, PB. to know more about the history, Ochre and Rust (Wakefield Press, (Virago, PB, $33) and Philip $17.95). Lisa Gorton won the C.J. culture and politics of this new HB, $49.95), which takes nine Ab- Hensher’s The Northern Clemency Dennis Prize for Poetry for Press economic superpower, Tharoor is original and colonial artefacts from (Fourth Estate, HB, $49.99), Release (Giramondo, PB, $22.95). essential reading.

5 This article proudly supported by Copyright Agency Limited MA INT October Special Feature GA Man crea he w ESCAPING INTO FICTION the b Mandy Sayer and Jo Case interview Gary Bryson about his debut novel Turtle. nove says simp Gary Bryson’s first novel, to G Turtle, explores a dysfunctional eve Glasgow family and the nature of familial love, with the help Wh of a talking turtle. Jo Case spoke find to Gary for Readings’ series on You new and emerging Australian zoo authors, sponsored by CAL. stee A co wea of th Gary Bryson began broad- flipp casting radio dramas out of his Glasgow bedroom window So h at the age of twelve. At the same with time, he was a voracious reader abo and prolific writer of stories, Wh regularly publishing short his e fiction in his school magazine. curs When he ‘grew up,’ he had left on t fiction behind – though he be- mother who may or may not be this and that for a while and not his publisher said to him was, that gan making his radio programs psychic (and believes Donald is really getting anywhere.’ The ‘have you spoken to your family from on a much larger scale. Bryson, cursed); a sister he despised; course not only gave him the about this?’ He laughs as he But who escaped Glasgow aged 21, and a much-absent gangster deadlines he craved, but people recalls telling his father that he shap has long been a producer at father. Throughout the book, to bounce ideas off, in the was publishing a novel ‘about upb ABC Radio National, where he Donald has an ongoing internal form of his lecturers and fellow growing up in a dysfunctional conj was the executive producer on conversation with an imaginary students. ‘He was one of those Scottish family in the 1970s’. dist Philip Adams’ Late Night Live turtle that speaks in a broad dream students who writes ‘Am I in it?’ his father asked. The for many years. Glaswegian accent, whose well, listens, and works hard,’ Bryson told him that he wasn’t. a sk significance becomes apparent remembers one of those ‘But he might think he is when ‘I was quite content with my of G as the story unfolds. lecturers, Mandy Sayer. he reads it,’ he says. ‘That’s a and career as a journalist,’ he says. serious problem for writers who ‘But I still harboured this idea The persistence in tracking rela pick up on and use auto- ena that I might like to write some- ‘Bryson’s down the right people that’s biographical material to create thing non-factual one day.’ vital to a working journalist was gen novels with. And I’ve thought whi The idea for his first novel, father is not also integral to his hunt for a long and hard about it.’ Turtle, came to him after he a gangster publisher. After being rejected into returned to Glasgow for his by ‘every agent in Sydney’, While his protagonist, Donald, exp mother’s funeral in 1999, after and he has Bryson sent off the novel to escapes from his grim sur- It’s n she died of a sudden heart attack. ‘a lot’ of publishers, where he roundings to the exotic world On never spoken pictured it lingering on the slush of swimming and the turtle, abo The novel starts with a simi- piles – so he looked for specific the young Bryson immersed crea lar premise. Donald – who to a turtle.’ names in the publishing industry himself in books. ‘I used to on t fled Glasgow as a young man he could direct the manuscript use reading as a way of tuning beh and hasn’t seen or spoken to It was his journalism background to. It was turned down by one out from what was going on Tha his family in 30 years – gets a that drove Bryson to do a crea- publisher, and picked by the around me, in my family.’ one phone call urging him to return tive writing course at Sydney’s other, Allen & Unwin. Did his love of reading lead turt for his mother’s funeral. Back University of Technology, as a to his love of writing, then? Do y in the much-changed city of his way of providing some structure Bryson’s father is not a gangster ‘Possibly, yeah. I think that if Gla youth, surrounded by reminders to his burgeoning book. ‘I can’t and he has never spoken to you read a lot as a kid, you in y of the past, Donald reflects on work without deadlines,’ he a turtle, but there are strong start to think about how Gla growing up in a dysfunctional laughs wryly. ‘I was frittering elements of autobiography in that’s made.’ family with a mad, depressive around and writing little bits of his story. One of the first things Kelm 6 MANDY SAYER James Kelman is an artist and telling part of the reality of your that for quite a while. He’s a he lives and breathes Glasgow. childhood? And if so, how did bit thick really, emotionally. INTERVIEWS He’s a master at taking us right they mould your imagination? GARY BRYSON inside the mind of a particular Many first novels are not only kind of marginalised, alienated My mother was a great believer autobiographical, they’re often Mandy Sayer was Gary Bryson’s Glasgow character. When I in fortune tellers and was one written in the mode of realism. creative writing lecturer when read How late it was, how late of the most superstitious peo- Was the magic realist aspect of he was writing Turtle. She calls (Kelman’s controversial 1994 ple I’ve known. Our childhood Turtle a deliberate choice for the book ‘one of the finest debut Man Booker Prize winner) was full of things you couldn’t your first novelistic outing? novels I have read in years’ and I recognize the character of do – sitting at a corner of the says Bryson’s storytelling is ‘quite I’m a bit of a sucker for stories Sammy immediately. Anyone table was bad luck for example, simply, enchanting’. She spoke that play with reality, throwing who’s lived in Glasgow knows if you came in through the to Gary for Readings on the it around a bit, with ghosts or someone just like this, but front door, you had to leave eve of Tu r t le’s release. angels or talking fish or what- Kelman shows us how Sammy through the front. It was her way of coping with a difficult ever, but making it all work in What are the chances of thinks, his anger and the depth terms of the narrative world so of his confusion. This is what I life. She was your archetypal, finding a turtle in Scotland? nervous-breakdown prone that, as a reader, you don’t miss think of when I think of a beat. I definitely wanted a You might find one in the housewife on Valium, and our ‘Glasgow writing’, though flavour of that, though I wasn’t zoo, but otherwise the turtle dad was not always around as there’s a varied tradition – the deliberately trying to write steers well clear of Scotland. much as he should have been, existentialism of Alexander magic realism. As Turtle took A country where you have to and their marriage was very Trocchi for example, or the shape, though, an interesting wear two pairs of socks most unhappy, so that was a curse of dialect poetry of Tom Leon- kind of tension developed be- of the year is no place for our sorts. Our family was dysfunc- ard. But Turtle isn’t a Glasgow tween the bits that may or may flippery friends. tional in an ordinary kind of novel at all in that sense, it’s a not be magic realism – I have migrant’s novel and it’s about way, but, no, my mother was not So how did a turtle that speaks some problems with that term escaping that culture – the mad, awful like Trixie is (the mother with a Glasgow accent come – and the more realist aspects. angry parts of that culture. in the story), and my family was about? not nearly as mad as the Pinelli’s. So even though Trixie’s clair- Escaping it, and not escaping it, voyant, and there’s a curse and When Donald has to imagine because I don’t think it’s possi- They’re all my own invention. I’m getting help for it. a talking turtle, it’s all brought his escape from his mother’s ble to fully erase the culture that back to earth by the psychol- curse, it’s a turtle that he latches formed you. So the Glasgow The novel contains a framing ogy of a boy trying to grow up on to, as an exotic creature in Turtle is really a particular device of a man returning to in a poisonous family. Beyond s, that’s seemingly about as far memory of one person’s Glas- mily Glasgow after many decades that tension – between reality from Glasgow as you can get. gow, and like all memories, bits for his mother’s funeral and and imagination or the surreal But Donald’s imagination is of it are distorted and bits of it is narrated over a period or whatever – I would say that he shaped by his culture and his are false, although there’s a truth of twenty-four hours. How Turtle is actually a realist novel. t upbringing, so the turtle he buried in there somewhere, too. al difficult was it to establish this In the best tradition of Scottish conjures up as his saviour is a frame, and was it there from miserablism. With funny bits. . How important is the setting distinctly Glasgow one. the first draft? The Turtle in the book is of post-industrial 1970s Visit www.readings.com.au n’t. a sketch of a particular kind Glasgow to the story? It was there from the first to read the full text of Mandy hen Sayer’s interview with Gary of Glasgow character, all front I feel I owe an apology to the draft, though I’d written Bryson. and no-nonsense, whose people of Glasgow because the four or five chapters before it who relations with everyone are city in Turtle is unremittingly struck me what was going on, enacted through a kind of bleak, even though it’s very that Donald, as the narrator, te genial, foul-mouthed banter much a backdrop, and more was physically somewhere, ht SPECIAL OFFER which sometimes spills over of a cultural thing than a physi- and not just a disembodied into vindictiveness, but also cal setting. But it’s the source voice. And it seemed to make sense that he would be back ald, expresses a kind of love. of much of the humour in the It’s not so far-fetched, really. book, and it reflects the city in his childhood home for the first time in yonks, with all d On the face of it a turtle is I knew as a boy, which was about the most un-Glaswegian dirty and depressed with mass this family history washing creature you could imagine, but unemployment and grinding over him as he tries to come on the other hand, it hides itself poverty. It was also a violent, to terms with the death of his mother. That’s really what ng behind this big, tough shell. angry place where getting That’s its survival tactic and it’s chased by bampots wielding sparks his story off. The shock one that’s worked well for both open razors was more common of being there, in Trixie’s turtles and Glaswegians. than it ever should be. I believe house, rediscovering him- self and all the crap he went ? it’s better these days. They’ve Do you consider Turtle to be a through as a kid – that’s what f cleaned the soot off the build- Glasgow novel? How does it sit, ings, so I suppose it must be. gets him talking. It’s part of a Readings is offering in your mind, with books by healing process over the day Gary Bryson’s Turtle (Allen Glasgow writers like James Was your family as mad as the and night that he’s there, but & Unwin) for the special price Kelman, for example? Pinellis? Were curses and fortune Donald doesn’t understand of $22.95 (normally $27.95).

7 Robert Drewe K Jo Case talks to Robert Drewe about his new story collection The Rip. Ma

Robert Drewe is among Australia’s man, who has experienced the Grower’, are good bookends and K most loved writers – of novels, usual share of such fractures complement each other perfectly. Bo memoir and short stories. His and breakages – as a child and Se iconic Australian books include an adult. There certainly seems These stories remind me of of The Shark Net, The Bodysurfers to be a relationship fault-line Hemingway’s adage about the th and Our Sunshine. He is also edi- running through the Northern iceberg – that a strong writer only in tor of Black Inc.’s Best Australian Rivers of NSW. As uncertain need reveal one eighth of what he Li Stories annual series. Recently, he and uncontrollable as the San knows about that story, and the M has revisited the short story himself, Andreas Fault, I reckon. reader will sense the submerged in with a masterful new collection, whole. Many of these stories seem The Rip. Jo Case spoke to him for There is a recurring theme here to contain a novel within them, a A of the city dweller who is drawn de Readings about storytelling. always going swimming wider story that is only hinted at. to the romance of nature, but to or applying suntan oil. Is that accurate – do you know a You write across a range of forms: disenchanted by the messy reality good deal more about these charac- Li short stories, novels, memoir. The Australian environment of it. Is that something you have ters and their situations than you re Do you have a favourite? almost seems to be a dominant observed, or have experienced reveal? an What draws you to short stories yourself? What makes it rich w character throughout the stories: I take that as a compliment, as a form? material for a writer? to name just a few, the creeping that some of the characters do I I don’t favour any particular reclamation of Leon K.’s hobby Conflict of any sort, the fish-out- contain a novel within them. In po form, other than preferring to farm; the assignment of personal- of-water business, the clash of a way, all fictional characters are th write fiction. No contest: fiction ity to different aspects of nature in cultures, makes for good drama. facets of the author, to a greater th is more fun to do. After writing ‘The Water Person and the But I wouldn’t blame messy na- or lesser degree. The men, the Th a long novel – most recently, Tree Person’; the dingoes in ture so much as messy humans. women, the teenage boy, the five- w Grace – I find it pleasurable to paradise in ‘Masculine Shoes’. In intensified circumstances year-old girl. So you know more ch write stories next. A book is such Was that deliberate? many sea- or tree-changers don’t about some of them than others. no a long haul and you have to keep Absolutely. Good question. seem to handle the actual change That’s where the imagination is yourself diverted and enter- The environment, in the sense as sensibly as they might. Some comes in. re tained. It’s like painting your of a disintegrating Eden, was go troppo. Next thing, a 50-year- te house: after painting three blue foremost in my mind while I was old former Melbourne merchant You are also the editor of the an- be walls you can’t wait to switch to a writing. Living in the country, as banker is calling himself Zeus, nual Best Australian Stories series. a yellow wall. I do now, surrounded by vestiges painting pictures of frangipanis Who are some of your favourite un short story writers, and what at- Short stories have an immediacy of what was once lush rainforest and chasing teenagers. ta tracts you to them? and power, and speak to us per- known as the Big Scrub, cer- The stories in this collection in sonally more than a novel does. tainly underlined that sensation. often surprise the reader towards I was impressed by Chekhov, th Apart from its sharper focus, My antenna feels much more the end, with unexpected Hemingway, John Cheever, ca what the good story has over the receptive to elemental things conclusions or revelations. Raymond Carver, Alice Munro. Th novel is that it sets up a need in – landscape, weather, wildlife – The ending of the first story, Nowadays I’m amazed at the an us that we weren’t aware of – and than it did in the city. You can’t ‘The Lap Pool’, is particularly talent of a whole lot of younger an then fulfils it. I appreciate that help it when you’re wondering effective. Is that twist in the end Australian writers, some of whose small miracle. every day whether there’s enough something that you consciously work I published in Best Austral- Th water in the tank. There’s also work towards, or is it how the ian Stories. It’s not fair to single fr The stories in The Rip are loosely something very Henry Lawsonish stories naturally unfold? people out; readers should check D linked by their setting on the Pa about finding a black snake in They naturally unfold like that. out the series for themselves. Australian coast, and many of R the lounge at two a.m. I certainly don’t go for a sudden And have a look at the new and the characters you write about re O. Henry twist at the end. burgeoning literary magazines have a deep affinity to the water. The fault lines in relationships are – That’s a bit abhorrent. But I that are publishing them. Is that an affinity you share? a running theme throughout these la believe a story should have a If so, how does it inform your stories. The protagonists are often See page 10 for Belinda fo satisfying ending and strike an writing? surprised by emerging cracks in Monypenny’s review of be emotional chord with the reader seemingly solid relationships, or The Rip. th The Swan River estuary, the – just as the ancient fireside tale when those relationships collapse ex lunar West Australian landscape of our ancestors did. and the Indian Ocean coast ‘as a result of outside pressures. ly were set in my consciousness Were you aware of that ongoing Do you have a favourite story at as a child, and clearly affect theme – the fragility of relation- in this collection, or one that In my writing, especially my story ships – when you wrote these particularly resonates with you? an collections such as The Rip and stories, or was that something that If so, what is it about that story? tw emerged when you looked back en The Bodysurfers. Like most I find that hard to answer. They Australians I prefer to live near on them? What is it that draws D you to this theme, as a writer? all represent very different moods tr it, but in my work I’m not a and ideas, and I’m too close to hostage to the coast. My most I was certainly aware of that co them at the moment. But I think ga successful novels, like The theme: it’s the theme of the the first story, ‘The Lap Pool’, Drowner or Our Sunshine or book. I guess it’s interesting to ch and the last one, ‘The Life tio The Savage Crows, reach a bit fur- me as a writer because it’s also Alignment of the Coffee ther inland. My characters aren’t of interest to me as a human, a no

8 Kate Grenville Mark Rubbo talks to Kate Grenville about her new novel The Lieutenant. d Kate Grenville was shortlisted for the about such a man, I felt I had to When he arrives in New South y. Booker Prize for her last novel, The try to understand the things he Wales with the First Fleet, Rooke Secret River, a fictional exploration was passionate about, although I is, for the first time in his life, of early, fraught relations between went into it with all the fears and almost happy. His conversation the English colonists and the original prejudices of a maths-phobe who with a fellow officer unsettles him – inhabitants of Australia. In The can barely add two plus two. I was it fair to spoil his fun? Lieutenant, she revisits this territory. read about Ptolemy and Galileo, Mark Rubbo spoke to her for Read- Kepler and Newton and found the Tim Winton says his rule of ings on the eve of its publication. way they gradually pieced together thumb with writing is that an understanding of the cosmos something bad has to happen A reviewer of The Secret River completely enthralling. (I had the by page ten, and I think he’s pretty described that book as coming close right about that. A happy story is The Secret River and the tone of advantage that I only had to deal to being a political fable; in The no story, unfortunately. I’m a bit those conversations went through with what was known in the late Lieutenant you return to the early slower off the mark than Tim, so - me like a blade – I thought, this eighteenth-century: no relativity or relationships between the Europeans my something bad doesn’t happen is a moment in our shared history string theory!) and the Indigenous people – are you till about page 70, but the prin- that I really want to try to under- Then I went out into the darkest writing political fables? ciple is the same. But of course, as stand. Who were these two people? nights I could find, with my well as something bad for a story I hope there’s lots to ponder over What does it mean, that such a faithful star chart, and looked. It to get moving, something good politically in the stories I tell, but friendship was possible? was an extraordinary and moving has to happen too. I spoil Rooke’s that’s not primarily why I write realisation, that the stars I was fun, but I think I finally give him them. The driving passion behind It’s through his friendship with his looking at were exactly the same something better. The Lieutenant and The Secret River colleague, Silk, that Rooke starts to as the stars William Dawes, and engage a bit with the outside world. e- was to try to wriggle inside specific through him Daniel Rooke, had The Aborigines are shadowy and What quality did Silk have to enable characters and specific moments, looked at (allowing for preces- mysterious figures at first, but him to do this? not abstract ideas – the book sion, of course). Those cold hours emerge as the novel progresses. is about the human, emotional Silk pays Rooke the great compli- of craning up at the sky seemed Were you tempted to give them reality of a situation. The book ment of accepting him as he is. a necessary part of the process of voices earlier on? tells the story of the friendship Silk can do that because he’s a man coming to know him. It was more Even before I started writing, I’d between a First Fleet soldier and completely at ease with himself – than just cold-blooded ‘research’, it decided not to try to invent any a young Aboriginal girl, and what he doesn’t need to be defensive or felt like putting my own self aside dialogue for the Indigenous people unforeseen paths that friendship judgemental. Silk is also a superb in order to try to hear what his was – I would use only what was in takes them down. I’ve tried to social animal – charming, witty, saying. Dawes’ notebooks. Of course, I inhabit the nuances and puzzles of gregarious – and Rooke is clever invented contexts for those conver- that situation, so that the reader enough to watch how he does it There are elements ofHeart of sations – the time, the place, the can inhabit it too. and learn a few things. When the Darkness in the book. Are you tone of voice – but I chose not to two of them go through a scarify- inspired by works you’ve read? The book was inspired by real events go beyond the words that had been ing battle experience together, that Do you consciously or, perhaps un- and real people; what was the story recorded. That was one reason for makes a bond that goes far beyond consciously, pay homage to them? and when did you come across it? keeping the Aborigines as shadowy e any differences of temperament. I I’m in awe of the human imagina- figures at the start. The other is The book was inspired by the found Silk a fascinating charac- tion – every individual taking in that, reading the historical record, friendship between William ter to write – he’s a pragmatist, what’s gone before and adding you get a powerful impression of k Dawes, a First Fleet marine, and always with an eye out for his own his or her own speck to the great the frustration of the colonists – Patyegarang, a young Gadigal girl. advantage, and a ruthless gleaner project of trying to understand. they wanted to start talking to Remarkably, their friendship is of other people’s stories for his To try to write a novel is to pay the Indigneous people, but the recorded in notebooks Dawes kept ‘narrative’ – and yet he’s a man of homage with every word to all the Indigenous people were, on the – he was learning Patyegarang’s generosity and largeness of spirit. writers whose words have changed whole, keeping their distance. language, and wrote down, word- His contradictions, like Rooke’s, you, like vitamins, at the molecular In the end, of course, the governor for-word, entire conversations made him hard to get a handle level. ordered two men forcibly kid- between himself and her. Between on (part of the reason this book In The Lieutenant, the homage napped, in the hope that a conver- the lines of these conversations, an went through 30 drafts), but very I’m most conscious of paying is to sation might start that way. extraordinary relationship positive- rewarding to work away at. ly blazes off the page – affection- the scientific imagination. What So Rooke’s conversations with ate, respectful, and full of humour. Rooke’s precocious skills in an astonishing leap it took, to Tagaran are all the more extraor- In spite of all the gulfs of race, sex, mathematics lead him to the naval see – against every instinct and dinary because of the context in and culture between them, these school where he becomes adept as the evidence of your eyes – that which they take place. As Rooke two people seem to have really an astronomer and navigator; your the earth moved around the sun says, the laws of time and place enjoyed each other’s company. For descriptions of these appear so and not the other way around! My and consequence are suspended, Dawes, it appears to have been a scientifically convincing – how did understanding of mathematical while these two individuals to- transforming experience – in the you research this? and astronomical creativity is em- gether create something unique. course of his friendship with Patye- I’m glad they seem convincing! barrassingly feeble, but what I’ve garang, he was forced to make a I did a huge amount of research learned in writing this book is to See www.readings.com.au for the choice that altered the whole direc- but I fear there are still plenty be in awe of that kind of creativity, longer version of this interview. tion of his life. I came across these of mathematical and astronomi- as well as the kind that produces The Lieutenant, Normally: $45, notebooks when I was researching cal howlers. In order to write painting and poetry. Our Special price: $35.95.

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October is always the month for new fiction, and this year’s bunch is especially good. Just this once, we couldn’t resist having two picks of the month Book of the Month 1 Book of the Month 2 F A MOST WANTED MAN code number. Tommy is in no THE LIEUTENANT terms with this new land and its THE John Le Carré position to demur – his bank, Kate Grenville stand-offish inhabitants; a fellow Ro Hodder. PB. Normally $32.99 under his father’s direction at that Text. HB. Normally $45 officer confides that he has been Ham Our special price $27.95 time, and much to his present Our special price $35.95 deeply troubled because he com- Gues Staff review regret, had made a fortune pro- Staff review plied with an order to capture two viding its services to high-ranking of the ‘natives’ for the Governor Earlier this As in her Russian colonels as they seized – ‘I wish to God I had not done year John masterful assets and built up vast fortunes it! He should not have given the Le Carré’s previous during the break-up of the Soviet order, but I wish to God I had not son Nick novel, The Union, and if there is a claim on obeyed!’ published Secret River, these funds Tommy has no choice his debut Kate Isolated from the settlement, but to accede. novel to Grenville RICE Rooke is approached by a group SPECIAL P ‘ considerable Our young man, Issa, is presum- ‘ SPECIAL PRICE uses the of Aboriginals and, over time, acclaim ably seeking his inheritance early history forms a bond with some of the or in (The Gone-Away World) - and I’ve from his father – but he is not of European settlement of children, especially a bright young char got the theory that Dad wasn’t all that he appears, and the Australia as a means to provoke girl and through her, begins to chan going to let himself be out- money is not his primary object. and confront us. The reader is piece together her language. For as lif done in 2008! For, with A Most A re-energised Tommy makes a forced to reflect upon what she or the first time in his life, Rooke We s Wanted Man, Le Carré delivers pact with Annabel to come to his he would do when faced with the feels that he has a place in the kook one of his most consummate- aid ... But meanwhile, the West- choice between the ‘intention of world. An attack on one of the prot ever performances, a novel that ern intelligence services are falling evil’ and the intention of good, members of the settlement leads fami will delight those who savoured over themselves to get their hands when the choice of good will to a punitve expedition being sent marr the early Cold War novels (like on this obviously (Middle-Eastern almost certainly result in out into the bush and Rooke is crim The Spy who Came in from the appearance and all that! ) ‘most catastrophic personal consequenc- ordered to join – their task is to class Cold) while also being (as ever) a wanted man’. Booksellers I know es. Grenville has used the lives of bring back six ‘natives’ to be made begi trenchant diagnostic of the West’s who’ve read this book all get that two members of the First Fleet, an example of. His friend Silk is to costa wilful ineptitude – this time in far-away look when they talk Marine Lieutenants Warwick be the leader of the expedition and Aust response to the post-9/11 world about A Most Wanted Man Dawes and Watkin Tench, to he has chosen Rooke to join him. to st and the spectre of terrorism. – it simply purrs with magnificent fashion a novel that is a joy to As Rooke protests, Silk assures toge characters, an intriguing plotline read, but immensely challenging. him that the Aborigines are too inert We are in Hamburg (such a clever sense choice – that still-sparkling jewel and the writing skills of a man As a child, Thomas Rooke ex- elusive and will never be captured; who is quite simply the best ‘you could think of it as a piece of mast of mercantile capitalism, although hibited all the signs of Asperger’s stron better known now for its tawdry in his genre. The pleasure’s all Syndrome, obsessive and socially theatre’. yours now: make yourself comfy colle connection to one of the most inept, but what he did exhibit was From the slimmest items of his- and enjoy this literary highlight won lethal terrorist cells the world a prodigious skill in mathematics tory, Kate Grenville has con- of 2008! us la has ever known) and in Tommy which earned him a place in the structed a tale that will delight and betw Brue’s world of merchant bank- Here is a taste of the opening Portsmouth Naval Academy. His move you. It is fiction at its most alter ing, all is as it should be. Mind paragraph: mathematical skills brought him powerful, a wonderful story beau- with you, the wife isn’t doing much to the attention of the Astronomer ‘A Turkish heavyweight boxing tifully told that poses timeless and poin to hide her liaisons, and life is Royal and it was at his suggestion champion sauntering down a universal questions. Kate Grenville crue certainly lacking a little frisson ... that Rooke applied to join the Hamburg street with his mother brings the Australian story to life. thos Until he takes a call from a young expedition to New South Wales on his arm can scarcely be blamed high human-rights lawyer, Annabel as a marine and astronomer. Mark Rubbo is Managing for failing to notice that he is ‘The Richter, whose client, an asylum- He built his observatory some Director of Readings. being shadowed by a skinny boy Perso seeker of indeterminate, possibly distance from the settlement, on a in a black coat.’ See previous page (p9) for the ‘The Chechen, origins, has turned up promontory overlooking the har- Readings interview with Kate full o at the Hamburg railway station. How could you not want more? bour. In his solitude he observed Grenville, also by Mark Rubbo. ciou One of his only possessions is the the new stars and constellations Martin Shaw is Books Buyer Belin name and address of Tommy’s while the new settlement struggled men bank, and what appears to be a at Readings Carlton with feeding itself and coming to TEN Ma CINEMA NOVA RECOMMENDS A&U Staff from the novel SAM ROCKWELL ANJELICA HUSTON KELLY MACDONALD BRAD WILLIAM HENKE by Evelyn Waugh in a pyschotic comedy directed by Clark Gregg: MATTHE GOODE CHOKE BEN WHISHAW EMMA THOMPSON MICHAEL GAMBONBRIDESHEAD From the novel by directed by Chuck Palahniuk, Julian JarroldREVISITED the writer of OCTOBER 23 FIGHT CLUB OCTOBER 30 Make a purchase at Readings for your chance C I N E M A 380 LYGON ST CARLTON to receive one of 25 double passes to either film. www.cinemanova.com.au the r

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of the publisher now. But, as one Non-fiction might imagine, I was in fact out huge palette, cramming snippets of of my mind with worry. As soon Biography other lives – Virginia Woolf, James as I recognised it, thank heaven, it went away. he ARABESQUES Joyce, Daniel Solander – into her book. Whether readers find this Robert Dessaix Do you think your experience of es in intrusive or fascinating, ultimately Picador. HB. Normally $49.99 illness and adversity contributed to oor House of Exile is not only a gripping Our special price $39.99 you being a writer, or was writing human story but a rewarding One of something you had always wanted exploration of the fate of the artist’s Australia’s to do? leading sensibility under the Third Reich. SPECIAL FEATURE I couldn’t say. Before I got sick, I literary lights, Sybil Nolan is a freelance reviewer. Q&A WITH wanted to be a magician, then a Robert SARAH MANGUSO THE COSTELLO doctor, then an academic. 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And this experience, The Two Kinds of memoirs or authors when you were ct Sahara, Paris to Algiers, places here is an Decay (reviewed on this page). writing The Two Kinds of Decay? h where the Nobel-Prize-winning intriguing oss- author lived out his unconven- This memoir is beautifully My influences were the Canadian post-mortem, writer Gavin McInnes and a few ers tional ideas about love, marriage, CE written. What were the main ‘ SPECIAL PRI from one of sexuality and religion. Illustrated differences for you in writing songs: Moonrainbow (The Comas), its principal nder with over 100 images, studded with a memoir as opposed to your Monster Hospital (Metric), and The figures – co-written by Peter meditations and conversations on poetry and short stories? Dead Flag Blues (Godspeed You! Costello’s father-in-law, a former subjects like why we travel, Black Emperor). editor of Bulletin and Quadrant. In Thank you. Some people ask me eat growing old, and illicit passions, the book, he reveals that he doesn’t why I stopped writing poetry and The title comes from a sentence at this is an alluring and enchanting regret not forcing the leadership started writing prose, as if only one the end of the book: ‘There are two book. issue, though that he believes that, may be practiced at once. Some kinds of decay: mine and everyone people who have read my poems THE HOUSE OF EXILE under him, the Liberals just might else’s.’ What do you mean by that? have won the last election. He get indignant when I call my prose Evelyn Juers I meant that one’s own death is argues that the Coalition should prose, as if prose is a pejorative Giramondo. PB. $32.99 a separate category of experience have ratified Kyoto, dealt better term. 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Weimar Sarah Manguso during the writing you were over- Germany and an outspoken Hunter. HB. $27.95 whelmed with feeling? My purpose was to write as clearly opponent of fascism. He escaped Guest review During the summer of 2006, I as possible, and often that purpose Germany just before Hitler’s ascent Sarah Manguso spent ten weeks at the MacDowell demanded restraint. I like Chek- to power in February 1933. The was a 21- year- Colony and Yaddo, where people hov’s line: If you want to move Nazi regime subsequently burnt his old college like me are cared for and given un- your reader, write more coldly. work and placed him on a wanted student when a interrupted time to work. Lunch is list. House of Exile is a biography of rare blood delivered, and one need not speak Did you write the memoir with a Mann and his partner Nelly disease to anyone all day. For that reason particular audience in mind? Who Kroeger which essays the invisible, – Chronic alone, I was able to write the book do you imagine to be your reader? unnameable, uncountable aspects idiopathic in six weeks. No breaks. Then, the I didn’t have a particular audience of what was lost for these and other demyelinating week before the book’s publication in mind. I just imagined address- ‘incurably European’ refugees from polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) – in the States, I stopped eating. ing someone who would listen to fascism. Despite the decade Juers first affected her. The disease caused (Or, to be more accurate but less me. To my glad surprise, a number spent researching it, in style her symptoms such as fatigue, paralysis polite, I stopped digesting.) I was of psychiatrists have told me they book is more like a novel than a and balance problems. Manguso convinced I’d caught a parasite, liked it. conventional biography, deeply initially thought she had a but for days people suggested my imagined, and often beautifully pervasive head cold, but after symptoms might be attributable written. Juers, who was born in several hospitalisations and visits to to nervous worry. ‘Bah! Impos- northern Germany and has a specialists, she began to grasp the sible,’ I said. I didn’t feel worried. migrant’s awareness of the frailness seriousness of her condition. This is The book was done, my work and coincidentality of much a beautifully written memoir. It is was done, it was all in the hands human connection, works with a unusual in that the language is 15

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Overall, barbed-wire fences and stockyards.’ And in the course of battling their own demons and each Grey excels in presenting a balanced Woodford tells the story of one other, every member of the family is called upon to decide doing liFe: account of his family, who he family’s big project, and it’s a messy what – if anything – they still believe in. tHe biograPHy oF neither vindicates nor vilifi es. His – though satisfying – one. He also elizabetH jolley From the author of Notes on a Scandal. meditations on life and death are traces his burgeoning passion for the Brian Dibble amplifi ed by his lyrical writing style, environment movement, from its UWA Press. 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Here, past staff describe their CEN Marcel Proust as well as all the photographs he own adjustment to the expectations of a Da took along the way. Shore’s journal multicultural society, and students recall is one of the HB. most pro- meticulously itemises where he their Parish Church and the realities of stayed, what he ate, what he school life. Most common of all they foundly visual remember the classroom: “All important was works in watched on TV, which photo- our learning to read, to write with pen and Western graphs he took and how many ink, to know our tables and grammar.” literature: a miles he drove, alongside pasted-in novel devoted to the description of ephemera such as receipts, post- people, their manners and their cards and parking tickets.Th e book ON THE BOUNDARY LINE arts. Th is book celebrates the close also contains reproductions of a Colonial Identity in Football number of postcards that Shore Barry Judd 978 1 921 509 025 PB $39.95 relationship between the visual Dav made on his trip, allowing the and literary arts in Proust’s sum reader the chance to tear them out Since the establishment of the AFL in 1990, masterpiece. Eric Karpeles has whe and use them, or keep them as a Australian football has represented itself identifi ed and located all of the as Australia’s ‘national game’. It is a game than piece of 1970s Shore memorabilia. paintings to which Proust makes Indigenous Australians have played at the sum exact reference, and over 200 are A Road Trip Journal is a highly elite level since the early years of the 20th century, and since the 1980s the number of reproduced here in full colour. collectable publication for any MA With accompanying texts drawn Aboriginal players has grown significantly. photo-book collector, photogra- Using football as a context, Barry Judd seeks Ma from the Moncrieff /Kilmartin/ phy enthusiast or student, or any- to examine what it means to be Australian HB. Enright translation of In Search of one with an interest in American in 21st century Australia. Lost Time, this book is an essential culture of the 1970s. Th is limited addition to the libraries of edition book, numbered and Proustians worldwide and a signed by the photographer, is an GARDEN CUTTINGS handsome volume in its own right. exciting addition to Phaidon’s ev- Articles for The Age by Nina Crone er-growing, highly popular Shore Edited by Helen Forgasz 978 1 74097 192 8 PB $39.95 STOLEN: list. At the age of 17, Stephen THE GALLERY OF Between 1982 and 1997, using the nom de Shore (born 1947) was a regular plume Alison Dalrymple, Nina Crone penned MISSING MASTERPIECES at Andy Warhol’s Factory. By the numerous articles on plants and gardens from Jonathan Webb age of 23 he became the fi rst living and their histories for the pages of The Age. both Cameron House. HB. $59.95 photographer to have a one-man The complete collection of these and other Th ousands of writings are brought together in this beautifully show at the Metropolitan Museum illustrated book. Nina also transports the reader JEA artworks have of Art, New York. 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Shawn the fate awaiting him, one thing is Missy Higgins, Clare Bowditch, the where tiny functions as a sort of audience certain: these instructions were not Drones, the Herd and of course, humans are kept as pets by large surrogate, grounding Gregory’s meant for him and in the dangerous Carmody himself. alien creatures) won the special philosophical speculations with his journey ahead, he will need to use Jury prize at Cannes in 1973. own occasional wisecracks. his wit and luck to survive.

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TV TITLE BARGAIN OF SPACED: THE MONTH COMPLETE SERIES 1& 2 MULHOLLAND DRIVE Director: Edgar Wright. $39.95 Director: David Lynch $9.95 Written and Originally created by Simon conceived as a pilot Meltdown Pegg and Jessica fi lm for a TV Mike Chinoy, Pacific Council on International Policy, LA Stevenson, this series; the series The riveting inside account of an American diplomatic disaster. When British comedy was George W. Bush took office in 2001, North Korea’s nuclear program was was rejected then frozen. Today, North Korea has become a full- one of the best in re-shot and edited fledged nuclear power, with enough fissile material ing the late 90s, into a theatrical to stage an underground test in 2006, manufacture er known for its feature. Two as many as ten more warheads, and-in the worst- l fast-paced editing, loads of pop case scenario provide nuclear material to rogue women who fi nd themselves states or terrorist groups. Drawing on more than culture references and slip-streams walking a fi ne line between truth two hundred interviews with key players, longtime i- of surrealism. Daisy, an aspiring and deception in the beautiful but CNN correspondent and North Korea expert Mike writer and Simon, a comic-book dangerous netherworld of Chinoy provides a blow-by- blow account that takes readers behind the scenes. artist, pretend to be a couple to Hollywood befriend each other, $49.95 Hb, ISBN 9780312371531 move into a fl at together. Unfortu- after one, calling herself ‘Rita’, October 2008, 432 pages nately, the landlord lives upstairs suff ers amnesia and stumbles into Henry Holt ng and the two must keep up the Betty’s apartment. Rita’s emotional Green Gold oach façade, with hilarious results. identity soon takes a left turn, and Mauro Burzio, photo-journalist and specialist in ethnography and it turns out that neither woman is alternative tourism een AND FOR THE KIDS quite who she once appeared to be. In the heart of the Amazon basin lies the Yasun National Park, the most ff SLEEPING BEAUTY biologically diverse forest on the planet. It is home to the Huaorani and some of the last indigenous peoples still living in isolation in Creator: Walt Disney. BAD EDUCATION the Amazon. But their ancestral lands sit on top of Ecuador’s largest with Released: 15 Oct. $39.95 Director: Pedro Almodovar. $9.95 undeveloped oil reserves. At the end of 2007, the new government of To celebrate its Th is is a rare fi lm President Rafael Correa offered an unprecedented from Almodovar in proposal: Ecuador will not allow extraction of fi ftieth anniversary, the oil fields in Yasun if the world community Disney is fi nally that he directs a can create a compensation trust to leave the oil letting this classic cast fi lled with permanently in the ground and fund Ecuador’s New from Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Palgrave New from animation out of leading men rather sustainable development into the future. the vault! After fi ve than his usual $49.95 Pb, ISBN 9781906523015 ked gaggle of women. October 2008, 176 pages years hidden New Internationalist phi- behind lock and Th e result is a cool ny key, Sleeping Beauty is waking up and stylish drama that confronts el- with grace. Sent to sleep by the evil the issue of sexual misconduct in r- sorceress, Sleeping Beauty will only the Catholic Church. Enrique is a t to awaken by the kiss of a handsome Spanish fi lmmaker who is having tark prince. Th e original 1959 classic trouble settling on a new project d a has been restored beyond its when Ignacio an old school friend NEW FROM HOPSCOTCH ses original brilliance, delivering a fi lm and his fi rst crush approaches him. o everyone has grown to love to a Enrique barely recognizes his friend MONDOVINO of fresh young audience. but agrees to read the short story THE SERIES he’s written. Th e tale turns out to A must have for all dly BEN 10: be a semi-autobiographical account e RACE AGAINST TIME of their days in a Catholic boarding wine lovers and bon ow- Director: Alex Winter. $24.95 school. vivants! Billie Piper sizzles in top Average kid turned Featuring 10 x 1 hour SECRET DIARY OF A CROSSING GUARD episodes this beautifully- superhero Ben packaged set takes the CALL GIRL Tennyson must use Director: Sean Penn. $9.95 viewer on an eye-opening and The entire Series 1 now on DVD. L: Th e death of tantalising journey through As seen on Channel 9. his secret powers to the wine regions of the world. defend the planet their daughter from an extrater- by a drunk driver THE PERFECT CHRISTMAS GIFT restrial invader in breaks up the he this live-action marriage of Fred- f feature based on the hit animated die and Mary Gale. NINE LIVES series Ben 10. With help from Mary remarries The story of nine different s at womens’ experiences told Grandpa Max, Ben learns that his attempting to put through nine different stories. new enemy is an escaped alien her life back together but Freddy of Starring: named Eon that the plumbers becomes an embittered alcoholic, GLENN CLOSE . DAKOTA FANNING seething with directionless rage. ROBIN WRIGHT PENN caught 200 years ago. But if Eon IAN MCSHANE . SISSY SPACEK the can’t be recaptured, the earth could Freddy intends to kill the driver THE WOODLANDERS John Booth as soon as he’s released be in serious trouble. Rufus Sewell stars in this moving story of from prison, but soon discovers love, betrayal and class division, based on that Booth is still wracked with the timeless classic by Thomas Hardy. , the guilt for his crime and can barely , live with himself.

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30 Convicts) was the perfect sound- track to a hard drinkin’ and fightin’ New Release CDs night out on the town, Dilettantes’ broad brush strokes provide the of Mind and Modern Times, as well RADIO RETALIATION ideal soundtrack for the perfect CD of the Month as some live tracks and songs from Thievery Corporation road trip. From the opening title track Tim Rogers reminds us what a CHIMNEYS AFIRE various film soundtracks he has $25.95 wonderful lyricist (Dilettantes) he is, Josh Pyke contributed to over the past decade The title of the Russell Hopkinson and Andy Kent $29.95 or so. Available in two forms and latest release demonstrate how a great rhythm Josh Pyke complete with the usual book, it from this section should operate (Disappear- surprised me is a very necessary addition to the Washington- ing), Davey Lane skillfully displays last year with his Dylan fan’s collection. DC based DJ/ how to add radiant piercing colour excellent debut production duo and subtle tones (Wankers) and You album, THAT LUCKY OLD SUN refers to what they see as a lack of am I once again illustrate what a Memories And Brian Wilson musical and informational freedom bloody great rock band sounds like. Dust. It was one of my albums of $29.95 on the airwaves as the world of radio As Rogers belts out on Frightfully the year and as good a debut Okay Mel- becomes increasingly homogenised Moderne- ‘You ain’t seen the best of Australian album as I can remem- bourne, it’s time by corporate consolidation. Inspired us yet.’ Highly recommended. Buy ber in the last 10 years. Obviously, to brush away by the uncompromising political this album. JP the expectations are somewhat the chill of an music of groups like The Clash, heightened for an artist who sold endless winter. Public Enemy and Fela Kuti, this is RS DEATH MAGNETIC 50,000 copies and won an ARIA No more shades music with a message. The cover award. And pleasingly, he has once of grey and dribbling noses; it’s artwork featuring a masked Mexican Metallica again delivered the goods. He can going to be technicolour sunshine Zapatista fighter says it all. $29.95 rightly be judged as one of our best and rainbows once you pop this in Featuring guest appearances from After an contemporary songwriters, a man the player. With his slightly goofy, Femi Kuti, Seu Jorge and Anoushka interesting with an ear for a tune and a future laid-back style, Brian has created a Shankar, this is seriously modern, period in this as bright as the sun. gorgeous collection of harmonious seriously thought-provoking music. juggernauts’ life, Dave Clarke is from wonder that sends you back to the Power to the people. DM lead singer James Readings Carlton glory days of Pet Sounds. The theme Hetfield declares of the album is ‘a day in the life of NO.1S & NO.2S on this album’s third track ‘What LA with Brian’, and clearly he loves don’t kill ya make ya more strong!’ Tex Perkins & Cue huge riffs, fierce drumming and TIME THE CONQUERER every minute of it. Voluptuous His Ladyboyz Jackson Browne harmonies and abundant strings metal salutes in the air! Metallica are $29.95 back!!! Enough said. JP $25.95 just make this an absolute pleasure Two of the most magnificent and Jackson Browne for Beach Boys fans, and those who exquisite entities in the current mu- has written and never gave up on Brian during his ME AND ARMINI sical climate are Tex Perkins and late Emiliana Torrini performed some darkest days. So be grateful to him twentieth-century emotional rock $25.95 of the most for that warm breeze you feel and (or Yacht Rock being the preferred Emiliana shot to fame when she literate and that permanent grin you get while option in today’s vernacular). Thank wrote a No. 1 single (Slow) for Kylie moving songs in listening to this lovely album. god they’ve finally come together. Minogue before belting out the popular music and has helped Alice Bisits is from Readings Malvern Mr. Perkins and his Ladyboyz (a melodramatic Gollum’s Song for the define the genre of protest songs. carefully assembled tender team of Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers His voice is still great, as is his ONLY BY THE NIGHT musical warriors) add poignancy soundtrack. The stunning 31 year backing group of musos. His first Kings of Leon with punch to such classics as I’m old part-Italian and part-Icelander’s album of new songs in six years $29.95 Not In Love (featuring the Ladyboyz sensational operatic voice brings (two excellent live acoustic In which the Followill boys con- heavenly choral tones), Do That her passionate lyrics to life in her compilations have kept his fans tinue their rather prolific output To Me One More Time (Perkins’ third CD, Me and Armini (even if happy in between) is another exam- and drop record number four. smoldering sensual vocal will in- she doesn’t remember writing the ple of what a great songman he is. Their particular brand of bearded, deed, as the title suggests, have you title track after tasting a bottle of Still fired up by injustice and the Baptist, boogie-infused rock may asking for a double helping) and whisky with her producer). With state of politics in America, one can not be to everyone’s taste, but also recruit luminary cohorts such Me and Armini comes a new energy only imagine what he may make of for my money KOL are one of as Jimmy Barnes, Adalita, Suzie De compared to her previous, haunting Sarah Palin. Browne will be touring the slickest acts around – and Marchi and Nic Cester to produce CD, Fisherman’s Woman from 2005, Australia in March 09. DC besides, they have clearly shown an aggressively angelic release that which was informed by her boy- that there is considerable depth is sure to feature on many album of friend’s death in 2000. Soon after, BOOTLEG SERIES VOL 8: to their sound with last year’s the year lists. Applause. she moved from London to Brigh- TELL TALE SIGNS fantastic Because of the Times. James Power is from ton to get away from it all and didn’t Bob Dylan Only by the Night certainly seems Readings St Kilda. Deluxe $34.95; Standard $29.95 to pick up where they left off, make music for two years. The sea You could almost call Dylan’s with a continued effort to beef up change (and the hint of new love) DILETTANTES has certainly had a positive influence Bootleg series a franchise – and a and expand upon their undeni- You Am I very successful one at that. Now up able qualities. The band explores on her music that is evident in the $29.95 to Volume 8, the man has caught elements of dark and light to great gorgeous track Birds and the lively You can always rely on three things: up with himself; which in itself effect and front man Caleb just Ha Ha, Big Jumps and Jungle Drum. 1.The Tigers will finish ninth. is a strange thought. This volume goes from strength to strength This is the perfect CD to brush off 2. The Espy will be packed on a covers the period from 1985-2006 as a singer. There is growth here the cobwebs and celebrate the new Sunday arvo 3.You Am I will deliver and includes unreleased gems and and it’s a joy to the ears. life that comes with spring! a great album. If the raw rock of alternate versions of songs from al- Declan Murphy is from Emily Harms is Marketing their previous effort (the excellent bums such as Oh Mercy, Time Out Readings St Kilda Manager of Readings. 31 CDs

DAVID HOLMES MAESTRO scapes. The Hawk Is Howling is, repeated listens. Go hunting for have The Holy Pictures Taj Mahal however, partly more reflective than treasure within Watch Me Disappear. with $29.95 29.95 previous releases, perhaps sharing Dave Collins is from has e Well, this is Since at least as more in common with 2001’s Rock Readings Carlton of h certainly quite a far back as Action. Instrumentally the band have have different David Santana’s somewhat branched out, utilising OH (OHIO) moo Holmes from Supernatural, light synthesisers on tracks such as Lambchop Holl the one I record compa- The Sun Smells Too Loud. For the first $25.95. Deluxe version $29.95 out remember. I had nies have loved time since their debut LP, Mogwai Oh continues serve let my interest in David Holmes’s the practice of boosting a venerated Young Team, Andy Miller is on pro- the Lambchop perf music wane over the past few years, artist’s career with an ‘all-star’ album duction duties. Recorded in notable tradition, where while still retaining fond memories using younger artists to open up Glasgow studio Chem 19 (run by each successive of his early albums This Film’s Crap, new demographics. As often as not, the Chemikal Underground record record represents Ja label), this release sees Mogwai simul- a new stage in Let’s Slash the Seats and Let’s Get the result is an aesthetic mish-mash, WO taneously stepping forward musically the evolution of their distinctive Killed, not to mention his stellar but Mr. Mahal is not someone to be Tin soundtrack compositions for dictated to, and here his collabora- and returning to their roots. sound. It’s a natural process which $29. Soderbergh films Out of Sight and tors are both sympathetic and Sid Grane is from has seen them progress from their the Ocean’s Eleven trilogy. This is soulful. Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Readings Hawthorn shambolic early recordings to the off not a sampling/cut-and-paste effort Los Lobos, Ivan Neville all shine, kilter pop experimentation of What and doesn’t have his trademark and Angelique Kidjo positively LADYHAWKE Another Man Spills to the joyful soul groove-based tunes but is an actual burns, in a set that showcases Taj’s Ladyhawke of Nixon and then, pointedly, it’s band with Holmes singing on most mastery of the calypso, reggae, $29.95 polar opposite, the piano-led of the tracks – a vocal style that African and Latin genres he’s It’s like stepping minimalism of Is A Woman. Oh long reminds me of both The Stone explored over the years, as well as into an 80s finds Kurt Wagner delving deeper Orsz Roses and Kevin Shields. The latter traditional acoustic blues, the genre disco. It’s dark into himself. The fundamental she i part of the album has some very he was instrumental in reviving four and the mirror nature of the band has altered and he w nice Eno-esque instrumentals and decades ago. This record is no ball is reflecting Lambchop has become ‘more and Aust while I’m not quite sure what The ethno-musicological treatise though: colourful lights more a vehicle for my songs and his d Holy Pictures is trying to be, there is it’s a rip-roaring party album, all around the room ... oh and there myself as an artist’. DC a wo no doubt that it is a great, sounding as fresh as Taj Mahal must are roller skates ... roller disco. This Zwa interesting listen. have, forty years ago. RM is how I felt as soon as Ladyhawke’s Country on d Morgana Keating is from heavily synth’d music started to fill on p Readings Hawthorn. TOOLS FOR SURVIVAL my ears. Taking her lead from LITTLE HONEY jazz- people such as Stevie Nicks and Lucinda Williams Jackson Jackson artis SCOTT MATTHEW Cyndi Lauper, Ladyhawke (aka New $29.95 $29.95 of o Zealander Pip Brown) has created ‘I’m in a Scott Matthew Melbourne stan her own style of 80s music for now. different phase 2CD. $24.95 electro-pop choi With pervasive beats and classic pop of my life, so Brisbane-born extravaganza Nick melodies, Ladyhawke is the there are more singer-songwrit- Jackson Jackson Port er Scott make a electropop girl of the moment. happy moments Katherine Dretzke is from on this album,’ Matthew has a triumphant CO Readings Hawthorn the singer-songwriter says of her unique musical return with their second album, HIS ninth studio set. ‘Darkly introspec- aesthetic Tools For Survival, a somewhat CO WATCH ME DISAPPEAR tive is one phrase people have used (‘chamber folk-pop’ is the best more melancholy follow up to the 194 Augie March to describe a lot of my songs. There description I can manage), an brash theatricality of their debut Gra almost painfully confessional album, The Fire Is On The Bird. Normally $29.95 are moody songs, but I’m looking 2CD approach to writing, and a voice Heartbroken, tongue in cheek, kitsch Our Special Price $24.95 outside myself a little bit more. that is simply unearthly. He pleads, and beautiful, Tools for Survival Augie March These aren’t ‘boy meets girl, boy cries, soars, and swoons with eschews the delirious environmental is one of Mel- leaves girl, girl gets bummed out’ overwhelming emotional intensity manifesto of old for an endearing, bourne’s most songs – there’s a lot more than that over stark but ravishing arrange- though nevertheless equally delirious, important musi- going on.’ So says Lucinda about ments for strings, guitar, piano and lovesickness. The survival at stake is cal entities. the release of her ninth studio ukulele. His voice and approach personal this time, not political, and Over the course album Little Honey (released on albu will invariably saddle him with the tools, for the most part are those of twelve years and three albums October 11). She is joined by guest cord comparisons to Antony and the crafted from a reckless imagination. they have created an enviable body vocalists Elvis Costello, Matthew This Johnsons –and this album is every With remembrances of Bowie and of work. Watch Me Disappear is their Sweet, Jim Lauderdale, Time Easton desig bit as good as Antony’s classic Now The Cure, its melodramatic, willfully latest and finds them teamed with and Charlie Louvin. The album relea I Am A Bird. You’ll also hear plenty disagreeable eccentricities fall just the American producer Joe Chiccarelli sounds great and should be played pion of Bowie, and sympathies with right side of brilliant. (The Shins, Beck, My Morning loud. Let’s hope she makes it out to Grae artists like Rufus Wainwright or Miles Allinson is from Jacket). As we have come to expect Australia again soon. DC com Final Fantasy. This is Scott’s debut, Readings St Kilda from Augie March, Glenn Richards’ the l although he provided songs for lyrics are once again sharp, evocative LIVING AND THE DEAD prov John Cameron Mitchell’s film MOGWAI and literary, with a diverse cast of Jolie Holland play Shortbus: several of those tunes are richly drawn characters inhabiting $25.95 The Hawk is Howling 2007 beautifully reworked here. This $24.95 the 11 tracks on offer. My favourites The Living And reco edition includes a nine-track bonus Mogwai’s sixth studio album is, as (to date) include Dogsday, The Slant, The Dead is back disc, recorded live in Germany, one might expect, a brooding and Lupus and the title track. Listen- quite simply the He h with several non-album songs. atmospheric collection, full of the ing to an Augie March album is a breakthrough to ‘m Richard Mohr is formerly from band’s exceptional use of dynamics rewarding experience, with hidden album her reve Readings Port Melbourne and creation of hypnotic sound- treasures revealing themselves upon adoring fans 32 CDs

have been waiting for. Working HUSH COLLECTION VOL sounding great, Gracias finds her ing, stark and Gothic originals on pear. with M Ward & Marc Ribot she 8: A CASTLE FOR ALL looking back over her life, taking on My Mother’s Children ($31.95) have has embraced the rocking side Various songs she has always wanted to been getting some great reviews in of her roots heritage. The results $24.95 sing and tunes that evoke precious all the right magazines in the UK. have intensified the evocative The Hush memories for her. As usual, the moodiness that has existed in Collection was musicianship is wonderful. MULLIGAN LABEL Holland’s music, but also bought started in 2003 Fans of Eliza Carthy’s recent work out a rollicking looseness that by Dr Catherine NORTH should investigate the work of the s serves her tales of love and loss Crock, a Rose Bygrave Mulligan Label ($29.95 each). op perfectly. DC physician at the $29.95 This label, which documented here Royal Children’s Hospital, $16 Released a few months ago, this some of the great developments ve from each CD sold goes to our is the third independently pro- in Irish traditional music in the 70s, ents Jazz children’s hospitals and is used for duced solo album from Goanna is back and progressively reissuing n classic recordings by the likes of WORKSONGS pain management, family centred band singer and songwriter Rose the Bothy Band and Paul Brady. Tina Harrod care and music therapy. A Castle Bygrave. Rose has one of the best ch For All is the eighth and latest CD voices in the country and writes Essential listening for anyone $29.95 ir in the Hush Collection and intelligent and thought-provoking interested in the blueprint record- Tina Harrod e off features seven Australian musicians, songs. This collection of tunes was ings of modern Celtic music. has been one What both classical and jazz who are mostly inspired by recent travels of Sydney soul united through their association in India, with references to her BUENA VISTA SOCIAL (and Austra- s with the MCA Freedman Fellow- extensive travels around Australia, CLUB: AT CARNEGIE lia’s) finest soul ships. As with the previous Hush too. Long-time musical friends HALL singers for a albums, A Castle For All offers Shane and Damian Howard help 2CD. Special Price $29.95 long time. As the partner of Jackie er calm, inspiration and optimism not on harmonies and Dave Steel and Released October 18. Orszacky, it is no surprise that only in the hospital environment Tony O’Neil contribute some very For those who she is also a fabulous jazz singer: nd but for anyone ready to benefit fine mandolin and fiddle accompa- came late, Ry he was after all a legend in the d from the healing power of music. niment. Cooder’s Cuban Australian jazz scene up until music project his death last year. Backed by BEHIND THE LINES was arguably the a wonderful band (Jonathan Folk/World John Schumann and most acclaimed Zwartz on bass, Hamish Stuart and influential, and certainly the on drums and Matt McMahon with Paul Barr the Vagabond Crew $29.95 highest selling (Readings included) on piano), this is one of the best There has been a flood of new This is ‘world music’ album in history. jazz-vocal releases by an Australian releases lately. This is just a follow-up to Although popular from the start, the artist in years. Featuring a couple scratching the surface and here the Lawson catalyst for BVSC becoming a global of originals, some excellent jazz are just some of the noteworthy phenomenon was Wim Wenders’ standards and a few surprise song album from a se and more interesting ones. 1998 documentary on these choices: Stevie Wonder, while back. extraordinary, forgotten musicians, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan and Behind the Wire re EM PORTUGUES which culminated in their trium- Portishead. DC is based around songs relating to ents Rabih Abou Khalil Australians and war from many phant Carnegie Hall Concert. On its m,’ $31.95 different perspectives and time- tenth anniversary, the concert finally COMPILATION OF Lebanese oud gets a release. The film showed only a HIS RECORDED frames. Initially, I had some ec- player and handful of songs, but here you get COMPOSITIONS doubts about some tunes here, ed composer Khalil the lot. On 16 songs over two discs, 1947-2007 but hearing titles like Boy on the ere has a reputa- Ibrahim Ferrer, Compay Segundo, Graeme Bell Run and Rachel’s Coming Home g tion for in the context of the overall album, Ruben Gonzalez, Omara Portuondo, 2CD set. $30.95 experimenta- Schumann and Redgum cohort Cachaito Lopez, Eliades Ochoa, Australia’s tion, a willingness to play with Hugh MacDonald have done well, Guajiro Mirabal and co. sound even jazz icon, ’ musicians from other cultures and creating versions that are fresh and better than one remembers from the Graeme Bell, hat has made a string of fascinating surprising. The songs are drawn film. Listening to this record is a returns with t albums of chamber/folk/jazz from a varied selection of writers, moving experience: it’s the second his most allbums. This time round, Khalil ranging from Bogle, Judy Small, Buena Vista album we never got, anticipated and his international combo have Henry Lawson, Shane Howard, denied us by the busy, reignited album, A Compilation of His Re- uest teamed up with up-and-coming Don Walker, Russel Morris to solo careers of the principals and the corded Compositions 1947 – 2007. w Lisbon Fado singer Ricardo Ribeiro Schumann himself. The version unforgiving passage of time. Ry This compilation is a well- ston and succeeded beautifully. of Eric Bogle’s No Man’s Land Cooder’s extensive remembrances designed and important jazz is especially moving. and the many unpublished photos ed release from a much-loved GRACIAS add to the experience. I cannot t to pioneer Australian jazz personality. Omara Portuondo NAVIGATOR LABEL recommend this highly enough. RM Graeme initiated the project, $32.95 A new and very interesting UK compiled the selection, monitored Portuondo has acoustic/roots label is only recent- the latest recording sessions, D been a singing ly being distributed here and from Also out provided new arrangements, star in Cuba what I have heard so far is going Red Letter Year Ani DiFranco played piano on several of the since the 50s, to be a label to seek out. Multi- Covers James Taylor 2007 Sydney and Melbourne nd but has had a instrumentalist Benji Kirkpatrick Way to Normal Ben Folds Five recordings and contributed the new lease of life has impeccable folkie credentials Live in Gdansk David Gilmour, background notes for each tune. the thanks to Ry Cooder and the Buena (Bellowhead, Faustus) and has Alphabutt Kimya Dawson He has dedicated the project h Vista Social Club series of record- very successfully gone the singer- Songs for You, Truth for Me to ‘my brother Roger who ings, in which she prominently songwriter route on Boomerang James Morrison revealed to me the world of jazz’. featured. Still going at 77 and still ($31.95). Mary Hampton’s arrest-

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