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7 GEOFF LAW 14 AUSTRALIAN both a psychological journey and a own story. His anger at fundamen- piercing exploration of abandon- talism is so heartfelt that it is IN CONVERSATION WITH INSTITUTE OF ment and loss. It is a work of impossible to engage with the MARTIN FLANAGAN INTERNATIONAL striking maturity that heralds the story from a detached distance. Geoff Law first AFFAIRS FORUM arrival of an important new voice in To be launched by Dr Catherine rafted the Join us for a glass of wine Australian literature. Kate Cole- Padmore, author of Sibyl’s Cave. dangerously and a discussion about Adams is a Melbourne-based writer Wednesday 16 July, 6.30pm, beautiful Franklin international issues and journalist. Walking to the Moon Readings Carlton. Free, no need River on a whim. affecting our country. Postponed was shortlisted in the Victorian to book. He was inexperi- from last month, this month we Premier’s Literary Awards (Prize for enced and in a will be discussing the book The Bot- an Unpublished Manuscript) in 17 DMETRI KAKMI leaky raft, but it tom Billion by Paul Collier. This 2006. Tuesday 15 July, 6.30pm, Arnold Zable was this eventful trip that drew book covers global poverty, which Readings Carlton. Free, but will launch Dme- him into the historic battle to save Collier argues is actually falling please book on 9347 6633. tri Kakmi’s mem- the Franklin from being dammed. quite rapidly. The real crisis lies in a oir Mother Land In The River Runs Free (Viking, group of about 50 failing states, the 16 DAVID SPRATT (Giramondo, PB, PB, $32.95), Geoff Law gives a bottom billion, whose problems & PHILLIP SUTTON Normally $29.95, lively and witty account of that defy traditional approaches to IN CONVERSATION WITH Our special price flagship campaign, weaving it alleviating poverty. He contends MARY CROOKS $24.95), the title around stories of his wilderness that these failed states pose the core Mary Crooks is the chosen for this month’s Readings travels. Monday 7 July, challenge of the developing world Director of the Australian Feature, sponsored 6.30pm, Readings Carl- in the twenty-first century. Victorian Women’s by CAL. Kakmi writes about ton. Free, but please book on Monday 14 July, 6.30pm, Trust and the his childhood in the late 1960s 9347 6633. Readings Carlton. Free, no need on the island of Bozcaada in the to book. founder of the 9 MATTHEW SHARPE Watermark project. Aegean Sea, at the entrance to the Dardanelle Straits, at a time when Join us for the 15 GRACE PUNDYK David Spratt is a political tensions between Greece launch of This engaging businessman and and Turkey were at their peak, Understanding narrative non- climate policy analyst. Phillip Sutton is the convener of the and the island’s Greek population Psychoanalysis fiction tale, The was subject to intimidation by its (Acumen, PB, Honey Spinner non-profit environmental-strategy Turkish government. Finally his $45), a broad (Pier 9, PB, think tank, Greenleap Strategic family is forced to flee the island introduction to $34.95) follows Institute and president of the and to migrate to Australia. Years the key concepts Grace Pundyk’s Sustainable Living Foundation. later, the adult Dmetri returns in and developments in psycho- journey from the They put together a paper for Ross the hope of making peace with analysis and its impact on wild Yemeni deserts to the jungles Garnaut’s recent report, which the past. Thursday 17 July, modern thought. Matthew Sharpe of Borneo, and from Russia to turned into a report of its own, 6.30pm, Readings Carlton. is Lecturer in Philosophy and Tasmania’s leatherwood forests, Climate Code Red (Scribe, PB, Free, no need to book. Psychoanalytic Studies at with many other honey producing $27.95). This new book assesses Deakin University. destinations in between. Grace the latest evidence from the 17 NAM LE Wednesday 9 July, 6.30pm, follows the sticky trail of this world’s leading climate scientists IN CONVERSATION WITH Readings Carlton. Free, but ancient food, and the people who about global warming, Climate CATE KENNEDY please book on 9347 6633. make their living from it, to Code Red concludes that the most Supported by uncover the truth behind this ‘food serious impact of climate change Asialink. Nam Le 10 DENNIS MCINTOSH of the gods’. Grace’s fascinating is upon us now. Wednesday 16 July, 6pm, Readings is the child of Dennis McIntosh account is personal and wonder- Hawthorn. Free, please book Vietnamese was always fully descriptive, and her beautiful on 9819 1917. immigrants: the determined not to photographs bring many of the first and last of the get stuck in a exotic destinations to life. 16 stories in The Boat factory like his Tuesday 15 July, 6.30pm, ALI ALIZADEH Ali is the author of address that father, but it’s only Readings Port Melbourne. Free, experience, but in between, his once he takes a but please book on 9681 9255. The New Angel stunning imagination lays claim to job as a roustabout (Transit Lounge, a full range of human experience that he discovers what he really 15 SOPHIE CUNNINGHAM PB, $27.95). The story concerns across the globe, from a tourist in wants to be: a shearer. Travelling IN CONVERSATION WITH Bahram, currently Tehran to a child assassin in from station to station, he revels KATE COLE-ADAMS Colombia. Nam Le was born in in the smell and feel of the sheds, Join Sophie as she living in Australia, Vietnam and educated in and the freedom of being answer- discusses Kate’s who after Melbourne, resigning from a able to no man except his mates. debut novel, receiving a phone call from career as a lawyer to attend the Dennis’s book Beaten by a Blow Walking to the someone in his past, begins to Iowa Writers’ Workshop. The Boat (Viking, PB, $32.95) shows us Moon (Text, PB, recall his time growing up in Iran is proving to be the book of the the reality behind the romance $29.95). Enthrall- during the Islamic Revolution and year. Thursday 17 July, of the shearer. Thursday 10 ing, seductive, the Iran-Iraq war, and of his 6.30pm, Asialink Centre, July, 6.30pm, Readings profoundly burgeoning love for Fereshteh University of Melbourne. Free, Carlton. Free, but please book resonant, Walking to the Moon is (Persian for ‘angel’). Much of this but please book on 9347 6633. on 9347 6633. potent novel mirrors Alizadeh’s 2 18 KRISTA POLVERE that politics has failed to solve the biggest issues of our time: Krista extreme and needless poverty, Polvere will Events for the Kids global warming and environmen- be performing tal degradation, terrorism and the from her endless cycle of violence, racism, new album, human traffi cking, health and edu- Here Be cation, respect for human life and Dragons. Friday July 18, 6pm, the crisis in families and parent- Readings Carlton. Th is is a free Readings music event, no ing. Tuesday 29 July, 3:30pm, bookings required. Readings Carlton. Free, no need to book. Image from Th e Dog on the Tuckerbox. See event listing for July 19, below. 23 ROBYN 29 CARL CLEVES VICKERS-WILLIS 5 JEANETTE ROWE 13 NICHOLAS CLUB Melbourne singer/ Psychologist & LOUISE PARK PARTY songwriter Kavisha Robyn Vickers- LAUNCH Join us for party as Nicholas Mazzella will Willis will talk Join us and the celebrates Bastille Day at Readings. launch Tarab: about Navigating brilliant authors Originally published in France in Travels with My the Empty Nest, a of the Smarty Cat 1959 and a constant bestseller ever Guitar. Th is new new book about series (Hardie since, Nicholas is the fi rst in a series book is Carl about the Grant, $4.95 of books about a young boy who Cleves’ story of his inter-related each). Smarty loves football and dress-ups. Now amazing life. Carl escaped national developmental issues for both Cat is the curious available in English to be read, service in Belgium to live in South parents and young adult children kitten who loves reread, and loved forever. 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July Special Feature MINING THE MOTHER LAND Arnold Zable interviews Dmetri Kakmi, author of Mother Land

Melbourne-based writer and editor Dmetri Kakmi revisits the Turkish island of his birth and the events that drove his Greek family to migrate to Australia in his haunting first book, the memoir Mother Land. In the latest in Readings’ series spotlighting new and emerging writers (sponsored by the Copyright Agency Limited), renowned writer Arnold Zable reflects on the book and talks to Dmetri Kakmi.

Dmetri Kakmi’s Mother Land is a haunting account of the author’s childhood on an Aegean island, situated near the mouth of the Dardenelles Straits and the Gallipoli ing tension between Turks and between her constant belittling ing triggered a ‘tidal wave of Peninsula. Renamed Bozcaada Greeks. The two communities and his drunken violence. memories. It was like the doors after it was annexed by Turkey live apart in separate quarters. While Kakmi does not flinch of perception had opened and in 1923, the Greek inhabitants For the Greek population, the in depicting his father’s out- I was virtually drowning in still maintain its classical name, threat of violence and expul- bursts, he also portrays him names, events, images, locales, Tenedos. sion is always imminent. One with compassion. On the sea, and sounds.’

Book-ended by the author’s act of violence can engender Baba is a master of his craft. a chain reaction of hatred and ‘He could navigate some very It was partly a sense of respon- return to the island in 2002, sibility to his mother’s memory the narrative focuses on a reprisal, acted out against a treacherous waters around the recent history of ethnic cleans- Dardenelles, a true skill that that drove him to write the three-year period, between book. ‘I could see that she was 1969 and 1971, as seen ing, exile, displacement and was not acknowledged because potential massacre. he was illiterate,’ Kakmi tells carrying a huge load, and was through the eyes of the author deeply frustrated and caged in as an eight- and nine-year-old me, when we meet to discuss The boy is also witness to his the book. her circumstances. I felt a duty boy. The period ends when his parents’ violent dynamic. His to restore this woman’s life, family forsakes their impov- mother is strong-willed, rest- After arriving in Australia, though I am sure she wouldn’t erishment and persecution less, impulsive, and headstrong, Kakmi suppressed the past. like some of the things I for a new life in Australia. the protectress of the hearth, ‘I deliberately forgot my two reveal.’ His moving portrayal The memoir is distinguished liable to snap at those dearest languages and about my Turco- of his mother conveys her by Kakmi’s vivid portrayal of to her, yet always prepared to Greek heritage. More than any- thwarted passion, her ferocious island characters, and his seam- do battle with those who bully thing, I wanted to melt in and desire to better her life, and less weaving of history, folklore them. She is a woman with disappear. I wanted nothing the secret she carried with her and myth, ritual and daily real- ‘city ways’, acquired after a to do with the past. It was too almost to the grave. ity, rendered with the sensuous sojourn in Istanbul. The father, agonising and I missed Turkey immediacy of a young boy. on the other hand, is a man of more than I can say.’ He Kakmi returned to the island 28 years after he left. ‘When I Two poisonous tensions the sea; in the eyes of his wife, avoided anything to do with a man without refinement. It the island until the death of his set out to write the memoir,’ permeate the narrator’s island he says, ‘it was a hard facts and life. First, there is the endur- is a lethal dynamic, swinging mother in 1993. Her pass-

4 figures book, a documentation bellies of clouds’, and where a him, I was able to pursue the that aimed to commemorate breeze can make ‘earth music emotional truth rather than MOTHER LAND the Greeks of the island, and in the wild sage and thyme and the literal facts.’ Dmetri Kakmi their culture, especially since oregano bushes’. Kakmi tells Staff Review their presence had dwindled me that this is how he ‘sees The finished memoir is a book Dmetri Kakmi paints beauti- to 32 elderly people. But this things here and now, when I go of revelations. The reader ful word pictures for the approach proved dull, and into the Australian bush. Every learns of the secrets that have reader, effortlessly seducing would have appealed only to moment is alive and connected festered for years, secrets that them into another world – specialists.’ The second draft to that great cathedral of the author himself discovered the world of his childhood. nature.’ only as he was writing the book. Kakmi records episodes Kakmi grew up on the As we converse, Kakmi reveals of brutality and unexpected Turkish island of Bozcaada ‘I realised that the deeper forces that fostered kindnesses on both sides that (formerly Tenedos). His this vision. In 2002, on one of can only be fully understood family were among the if I wanted to his return journeys to Turkey, against the reality of oppres- island’s rapidly dwindling make this book he went through a period sion. ‘A brutal regime creates Greek population, living when past and present, reality brutalised people.’ in the shadow of escalating work for an and fantasy, collapsed. He was political rancour from the audience, and deluged by sounds and images. To create a balanced picture, Turkish government. Greek ‘One evening in Ankara I woke Kakmi felt it was important to ethnic schools are closed; not merely be up in my hotel room and saw a dwell upon relationships that church bells are banned from child standing by the window, cut across the cultural divide. ringing; Turks are shipped in therapy for me, his arms wrapped around him- There are moving portraits of from the mainland to take I had to take the self, trembling, looking at me his Turkish friends: his school over the houses abandoned with burning eyes. It was me mate Refik, the Sufi-like fish- by Greeks. The new school- characters that as an eight-year-old boy.’ Days erman, Ezet, Osil the grocer, teacher, a young woman were so real in later, while observing a service and the middle-aged author’s from Istanbul, opens the in a mosque, he heard voices companion and guide, Sinan. school year thus: ‘Because my head, seek screaming, “Quick, run, they’re By accessing both the ter- you’re not a Turk, may the going to kill us.” ror and beauty, as well as bread you eat be poisonous.’ their essence acknowledging the virtues and make them ‘Past and present were colliding that can be found in people Meanwhile, some of the in a violent way.’ His entire be- of both cultures, Kakmi paves island’s longstanding Turkish universal.’ ing was under siege, violated by the way for redemption. residents try to hold back a brutal ancestral past. While the tides of change. (‘We’re in the short term he experi- Arnold Zable’s latest novel all Allah’s people, aren’t we?’) was written through the eyes of enced great psychic distress, his is Sea of Many Returns Kakmi’s family is divided, a middle-aged man, reflecting hallucinations enabled Kakmi (Text, PB, $32.95), a too. His mother, victim of an on the past. ‘While it was more to fully access the child he once meditation on displacement, enforced arranged marriage personal,’ he tells me, ‘it was was, and the raw terror and nostalgia and exile, set on to an illiterate fisherman, so sentimental that I could not beauty of the past. the Greek island of Ithaca. rails against her condition live with it.’ and pines for Istanbul, where Though defined as a mem- they eat with knives and Late one night, says Kakmi, oir, the book employs the forks instead of their hands, he woke ‘with a couple of techniques of a novelist in enduring (and dealing out) sentences running through its structure, its development savage beatings born of my head. It was the voice of of character, and detailed re- frustration. an eight-year-old boy, talking construction of key episodes. Mother Land is a truly gor- very rapidly, describing sitting ‘Obviously it happened a long geous evocation of Kakmi’s under a mulberry tree, having time ago,’ says Kakmi. ‘You childhood, aged eight and lunch with his mother and sis- cannot recall exactly what nine, capturing all the con- ter.’ Kakmi wrote the sentences people said, or the specific tradictions, confusion and down, and when he reread details that build up a scene wonder of growing up; set them in the morning he knew and make it real for readers. against a backdrop of swirling he had found the voice for the I realised that if I wanted to political change and its effects book. He was able to finish a make this book work for an on everyday life. It is also a full draft within seven months. audience, and not merely be lament for a long-gone way therapy for me, I had to take Kakmi’s evocative depiction of life that acknowledges its the characters that were so real of place stems from a kind of brutality, while steeping itself in my head, seek their essence SPECIAL OFFER meta-seeing. It is the vision of in the romance of nostalgia. and make them universal. I Readings is offering Mother an animist for whom all is alive A stunning achievement. and language is influenced by also realised that facts were Land (Giramondo, PB) for landscape, a world in which getting in the way of truth. the special price of $24.95 Jo Case is Editor of trees can ‘pierce the pregnant By taking the boy and creat- (normally $29.95). Readings Monthly ing a literary persona out of

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6 July Feature Q&A Jo Case talks to Chloe Hooper about The Tall Man.

Chloe Hooper won a Walkley Cameron died ... Even before Cameron’s loved ones well and I (2006) for her writing on Palm Hurley’s trial, police witnesses feel I understand to some extent Island – and in particular, the death were threatening members of the who he was. If you spend a lot of in custody of Cameron Doomadgee prosecution legal team, so you do time thinking about someone’s and its charged aftermath. Her first wonder. death, you do in a strange way non-fiction book, The Tall Man become close to them. (Viking, PB $32.95, HB $49.95) is Perspective is a huge factor in an extended meditation on the case the case at the centre of the Hurley seems a kind of semi- – and a stunning work of reportage, book – and the book itself. benevolent Kurtz figure (a reminiscent of Helen Garner and What different people see in the parallel you draw) – isolated Truman Capote. Jo Case spoke to same situation, and how you from higher authority, grown seems to incorporate some of her for Readings. tease out a ‘truth’ from that. heady with his own power, the big problems facing Aborig- (For example: ‘One man had mistaking the community as his You describe feeling ‘incandes- inal Australia: deaths in custody, seen a black drunk, the other personal fiefdom. How do you cently white’ when you first police attitudes to Aboriginal a white demon.’) How did you think this affected his behaviour arrive on Palm Island. Did that communities, the underlying wrestle with this issue in writing on the morning of Cameron feeling recede with time, or was tensions of a violent history. the book and observing the Doomadgee’s arrest? it always with you? How did What do you see as the most case? The key question of Keating’s Red- your awareness of your outsider significant issues in this case? I tried as hard as I could to see fern address is ‘how would I feel if status affect the way you ap- The case definitely highlights all things from both points of view. this were done to me?’ I decided if proached your work? the headlining problems, but Ironically, my last book had been I asked that of the Palm Island- I was an outsider to Palm Island, actually I wanted to avoid writing a satire of a true crime novel. ers’ experience, I also had to ask it but also to the police force, and to about ‘issues.’ I feel strongly that Here I was now trying to write of Hurley. He was someone who the law. The advantage of that was this is a book about people. It’s one, but the story resisted the had spent most of his adult life in not coming to the story with a set about the Doomadgee family genre’s conventions. This book, remote Aboriginal communities of defined moral or political posi- struggling for justice; and about in some ways, is more like a dot and frontier towns—and why he tions. But I was invited “inside” Hurley, a forceful, complicated painting: it’s in the little details of chose to work exclusively there is and I hope the book takes readers policeman. ‘Death in custody’ are people’s lives that the truth lies. another issue. But as time went there too. three dread words in Australia, on, I looked at what police in these but they don’t really penetrate our Is it true that you’re interested places regularly deal with, and I How did you get involved with consciousness. I wanted to write a in true crime as a genre? did start to wonder how a normal the Palm Island case in the first book about a confronting subject True crime is fascinating, because person could not crack up. place? Had you worked much which people would pick up and suddenly people’s passions are (or at all) with Aboriginal com- keep reading, not because they Chris Hurley was the first completely exposed. I think this munities before that? feel they should but because this policeman in Australia ever to be diverges from the genre, though. is a fascinating story. charged over the death of a pris- The true crime question is ‘did I’d moved home from overseas oner in custody. Despite the fact he do it?’. In the end, I hope the a year or so earlier and was keen Queensland’s Fitzgerald that he was not convicted, do reader might ask ‘could I have to know more about Aboriginal Inquiry identified a pervasive you think this represents a sig- done it?’ Australia. By chance, I met a code within the police force that nificant milestone for Australia’s lawyer, Andrew Boe, who was required ‘police not enforce the treatment of Aboriginal people? working pro bono for the Palm Is- law against other police, nor You write that Cameron land community. He asked me to cooperate in any attempt to do Doomadgee’s world remained Initially Cameron Doomadgee come and document the inquest so, and perhaps even obstruct closed to you, as a woman. was just another statistic to the into Cameron’s death. He said it any such attempt’. Do you What kind of challenge did this powers that be. A lot of hard work would take two weeks … that was think this culture influenced the present in writing the book, to by a lot of people has changed three-and-a-half years ago. investigation of Chris Hurley? which his story is so integral? that. I am hopeful about the Cameron’s world was closed to future: I think most Australians Palm Island is home to one of Well, Hurley was ‘investigated’ by the extent that the male world in want to know about our past Australia’s largest Aboriginal two of his friends, one of whom Aboriginal society is closed off and move forward with the communities, and this case cooked dinner for the other detec- business of reconciliation. tives at Hurley’s house the night by cultural norms. I got to know

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7 Spotlight on Australian Classics Some of Australia’s leading authors share their favourite Australian classics. JANE GLEESON-WHITE best writing nature poems. In with drunken and broken men in My favourite his 1992 collection, Translations order to understand it viscerally.  from the Natural World, for me Nor did it hurt my appreciation of Australian classic is Voss by Patrick his most exhilarating volume, the the book to be reading about realis- Special White (although grassy, froggy, birdy world farts and tically-drawn people grappling with there are many fizzes about his feet and ears. He real life in real streets that I knew Offer contenders for crafts concise, mimetic renditions – as opposed to far-off places where,  second favourite, including Kenneth of creatures from his forest-farm as I was growing up, it seemed real  Slessor’s ‘Five Bells’, Judith Wright’s Bunyah country. ‘Lyre Bird’, for life usually happened in literature. for instance, is the performance of I first read it as an adolescent with  early poetry, Robert Hughes’s The Fatal Shore and Rolf Boldrewood’s a maestro of wordplay with its aspirations to write. This book made Robbery Under Arms). For me, Voss thrillingly whimsical opening riff: it clear to me, as no other I’d read stands out from all other Australian ‘Liar made of leaf-litter, quivering up till then, that there was no reason books I’ve read because it continues ribby in shim ...’ great literature couldn’t be set here. to compel, perplex and astonish me. Craig Sherborne’s latest book is Muck Elliot Perlman’s latest book is Seven 3 I think I love it most for White’s (Black Inc., PB, $27.95) Types of Ambiguity (Picador, PB, grand attempt to create and inhabit $24.95). the Australian landscape, to fuse his CARRIE TIFFANY 2 European mythological imagination Illywhacker by PETER ROSE Buy any two books with the vast internal spaces of the Peter Carey is a My pick is a from our featured continent to which he was born and huge, daring, new release, and with which he had such troubled, brag of a book thus perhaps of selection of great impassioned relations. I also love it that gallops dubious classic Australian fiction for White’s daring to write about a around status. But what visionary, Voss, and to engage with Victoria’s Western District. It is full is a ‘classic’, and and you’ll get a the metaphysical, in a nation of snakes and parrots and goannas who cares anyway? It’s rare for a third one free. uncomfortable with both. And I and motorcycles and aeroplanes. critic to have an instant, awed sense love it for his surreal portrait of the The energy in this novel – its of a book’s mastery and importance desert, where he had never been, breadth of vision – is nothing short – make that, moral necessity. East which he conjured from the of gobsmacking. of Time (Jacob Rosemberg, Brandl paintings of Sidney Nolan and Carrie Tiffany is the author of An & Schlesinger, PB, $) was good, Eugene Delacroix, the poetry of Everyman’s Guide to Scientific Liv- but Sunrise West is something else William Blake, and the music of ing (Picador, PB, $22.95). again – so lyrical, so unexpectedly Gustav Mahler and Franz Liszt. funny in places, so profoundly If you ask me the same question in ELLIOT PERLMAN moving. If we still believe in great 20 years, my answer might be Alexis I’d choose My books, here is one. Wright’s Carpentaria. Brother Jack by Peter Rose’s latest book is A Case of Jane Gleeson-White is the author George Knives (A&U, PB, $22.95). of Australian Classics (A&U, PB, Johnston. Set in $29.95). post-World War DELIA FALCONER I Melbourne, Jessica CRAIG SHERBORNE the novel faithfully evokes the Anderson’s The Aunt’s Story period without ever resorting to Tirra Lirra by Patrick White tawdry nostalgia or sentimentality, by the River is one of the even to the point of risking our has haunted greatest novels affection for the central protago- me for years in the English nist, Davey. He is an outsider in a since I read it – because of its language. society that demands conformity. compactness, its extraordinary A unique synthesis of psychological He’s a budding intellectual in a tonal control, and the sad portrait inquiry of an individual’s profoundly anti-intellectual it paints of the limitations placed disconnectedness from the world milieu. His brother, Jack, is a in the 60s on a woman’s life. and cubist-like writing whereby brawling, drinking, womanising, Delia Falconer’s latest book is nothing is as it should be in the lovable larrikin; good-humoured The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers and mind of Theodora Goodman. and unreflective in the face of Selected Stories (Picador, She has withered inside, yet her adversity. In short, Jack is drawn as PB, $19.95). mind and soul begin to bloom everything Davey is not but often beautifully deformed, and doomed. wishes he could be. And yet we can’t MICHELLE DE KRETSER I first read this book when I was help liking them both. Their father The Aunt’s 18 and admired it as an amazing lurks menacingly behind them – a Story by Patrick feat of sophisticated wordsmithing. wounded, drunken bully. White: for Numerous re-readings over the For anyone who ever wondered how the glory of its years have left me with the view ANZAC Day came to have an al- prose and the that White knew more about most sacred position in the Austral- fierce kindness humans than was probably ian calendar, one need only sample of its vision. Michelle De Kretser’s healthy for him or the humans. George Johnston’s rendering of the latest book is The Lost Dog Les Murray is, of course, at his post-war streets, completely littered (A&U, HB, $35).

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Book of the Month Fiction THE TALL MAN where time is irrelevant, where THE PAGES her imaginary friends start Chloe Hooper the ghosts of the past (victims of Murray Bail pestering her with their own Viking. PB $32.95. HB $49.95 the stolen generations and the Text. HB. $34.95 desires. This is children’s author Staff review frontier wars) are omnipresent, Staff review Sofie Laguna’s first adult novel, and and where dysfunction is normal. In his fourth it is a book of extraordinary beauty The pre-publi- It is a place where heavy drinking novel, Murray and ugliness. Laguna has created a cation hype and domestic violence are so much Bail presents a marvelous narrator in Hester. about this a part of the fabric of everyday philosophical Hester lacks self-knowledge and book is experience that they are unremark- mystery. Erica lives in a constant state of intense. It’s able. A place where, within living Hazlehurst, revelation, joy and passion. Her the first in a memory, Aboriginals were not philosopher at only references are an illustrated two-book deal allowed on the streets where the the University children’s bible and the extreme rumoured to whites lived and had to ‘salute any of Sydney is religious views of her parents. The have paid white person they passed’. It’s also summoned to the office of the head reader becomes so caught up in the $300,000; her first book since her a place where Cameron’s sister of the department. ‘Philosophy has poetry of Hester’s idiosyncratic debut novel A Child’s Book of True Elizabeth looks after a flock of been called upon.’ The late Wesley voice and the strangeness of her Crime made her a worldwide neglected children who pass in and Antill, the eldest son of a pastoral- world, that we do not realise at first literary sensation; the book that out of her house, but is unable to ist, has bequeathed money in his that what she is describing is, in began life as a series of magazine save her own adolescent nephew, will for the publication of his work. fact, unforgivable abuse. One Foot articles on Palm Island that won who succumbs to the weight of his After crashing philosophy courses Wrong is a harrowing story, Hooper a Walkley in 2006. suffering and commits suicide. as a young man, Wesley decided he uniquely and sensitively written, How does it live up to its great ex- that builds slowly towards an Hooper starkly illuminates the wanted to be a philosopher. After pectations? Perfectly well, thanks. inevitable and horrific ending. shockingly segregated world of the many years, he returned to the We hope for Hester, that she From the first pages, it’s clear that ‘Deep North’. In a Gulf Country family property, where he retired to will find an escape as she travels you’re in the hands of an extraor- pub, where the black and white an old shed and began to think and through school and institution, dinary writer, one who spins out drinkers sit in walled-off rooms, write. ‘Is he a genius in philosophy? but in the end our hopes are perfectly observed sentences and an ancient (white) drinker at the We have no idea. That’s where you confounded. intricate observations, in a manner bar (Switzerland) tells Hooper that come in,’ Mr Mannix, the solicitor, Leanne Hall is from eerily reminiscent of Helen Garner Australia is ‘two countries’ – and tells Erica. And so Erica, taking her Readings Carlton (who calls this book ‘enthrall- that it works fine, so long as the psychotherapist friend Sophie ing’). One Gulf country town has south doesn’t try to impose its along for company, sets off for ‘an edge of menace, as if it were Antill homestead. Wesley’s sister WALKING TO THE MOON culture on the north. She also Kate Cole-Adams always high noon’. A man’s face is delves deep into the layered psyche Lindsey, a ‘practical and sensible Text. PB. $29.95 ‘a rash of cancers’. Like Garner, or of bush sheriff Hurley: a man who woman’, welcomes them quietly, Guest review Truman Capote writing In Cold was far from your stereotypical while his brother Roger, the farm Some books are Blood, Hooper puts herself in the racist cop. In fact, he was a model manager, is a mysterious and best read and story; but she is only there in the for reconciliation, who went out enigmatic figure. Bail draws us to then forgotten; margins, as a stand-in for us, the of his way to befriend and help Wesley’s strange and ultimately others resonate urban middle-class readers; our Aboriginal children, who was close uneventful life and the incongruous long after their way into the story. friends with Aboriginal activist impact it has on the lives of Erica, final words. Murrandoo Yanner, who seemed Sophie, Lindsey and Roger. The Cameron Doomadgee was arrested They, as one of to seek out tough postings like Pages is a warm, whimsical tale for either swearing at a policeman the characters Palm Island. Hooper draws him as about life, love and perhaps on the street or singing a faintly in Walking to a Kurtz figure, and asks: ‘What if philosophy from a master insolent song, depending on who the Moon so beautifully puts it, ... fighting a war against savagery, tale-spinner. you believe. He was slung into the ‘remind people of things they did you become savage yourself?’ Mark Rubbo is Managing back of a police van by the ‘tall Director of Readings not know they had forgotten.’ And, man’ of the title, Senior Sergeant The story of Cameron Doomadgee it is only in remembrance that one Chris Hurley, the ‘boss man’ of and Chris Hurley is a microcosm ONE FOOT WRONG can truly appreciate a book Palm Island. The next day, he of the wider story of Australia. Sofie Laguna as lovingly-crafted as Kate Cole- was found dead in his cell. This is It is, at its heart, a story of the A&U. PB. $24.95 Adams’ debut novel. Jess has woken the story of what happened next: ongoing clashes between tribes in Staff review up from a coma, its cause unknown. the coronial inquest, the riot that our country: the police and the Hester is not She knows she must walk, for there rocketed the story to the nation’s Palm Islanders, white and black allowed to leave is much she must leave behind. She front pages, the charging of Hurley Australia, northern and southern the house that must walk because it is only for murder (making him the first Australia. It will make you angry, she shares with then that she remembers all the police officer to be found respon- horrified, ashamed and sad. In a her mother and things she is trying to forget. But sible for a black death in custody), moving passage near the begin- father, Sack this is not a novel about major the trial. ning, the dead man’s sister, Eliza- and Boot. She events, at least not initially. Indeed, Hooper is there from the begin- beth, prays for Chloe’s ears ‘so that makes friends its real strength is in its sleight of ning as an ‘embedded’ observer, I would not miss any important with the hand. Facts are hidden and then spending time with the Palm Is- details’. I would say that her prayer objects around her, the tree in the revealed, characters colour with each land community. Here, she brings was answered. backyard, the door handle, a and every memory, and the the complex looking glass world Jo Case is Editor of spoon. Hester lives a bleak landscape is exquisitely rendered of the island to life – a world Readings Monthly existence, without self-pity or through the eyes of the main questions, and it’s not long before character. What starts in a

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family home and moves them to a adventures take him – from Burma’s THE STORY OF escape from his poverty stricken retirement village, Pippa’s carefully jungles to the wilds of Ireland – his A MARRIAGE and destitute future in Russia. It’s a constructed self begins to unravel. destiny lies always with his father’s Andrew Sean Greer sort of tortuous look at people She reverts to sleepwalking and enemy, Napoleon. Faber. PB. $29.95 craving some sort of connectedness, between waking and dreaming she This unsettling yet who are completely incapable, confronts the pain and sadness of THE LIGHTED ROOMS novel of a due mostly to their own introver- her past. Pippa reveals a childhood Richard Mason surface-serene sion, of connecting with any of the warped by a drug-addicted, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. PB. $33 marriage in people around them. 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sound of Furious makes you want to strive for boldness. The CD New Release CDs closes with the uplifting To America to complete this collection. Deep, ALL I INTENDED TO BE period attest to their durability. profound and meditative, nothing CD of the Month Emmylou Harris Songs filled with angst, commer- else comes close to the brilliance of Joan As Police Woman. $29.95 cially grand and sweepingly @#%&*! SMILERS Michael Awosoga-Samuel is Aimee Man An instantly recognisable voice orchestral, edgy or just simple pop classics, this collection has a little from Readings Carlton $29.95 that glides through this collection bit of everything for the fan. The This is another of songs like a warm knife through DVD is also an indulgence worth A PIECE OF outstanding butter, Emmylou is one of the great- buying, as they also produce WHAT YOU NEED album from est interpreters of songs by other writers and artists ever, and on this amazing accompanying videos. LF Teddy Thompson Aimee Mann Special Price $21.95. July only. that sticks to the album she does not let any of them A LONG DREAM Sarcasm needn’t be the lowest style and sound down. She even lends her voice to ABOUT SWIMMING form of wit – played right, it can that has served her well throughout some of her own songs. The pace ACROSS THE SEA be elegant and wryly withering. her solo career. She isn’t experimen- never gets past a shuffle and while many songs are rich in texture and Tyler Ramsey Teddy Thompson doesn’t have long tal, but Mann’s songwriting has enough tongue or deep enough always had a multi-layered depth layered with harmonies and duets by $25.95 famous friends, the highlights to me Better known as guitarist with cheek to pull the trick off with the that demands repeat listening. This aplomb and wit of Everybody’s Happy will never receive commercial are still Emmylou and guitar, sing- Band Of Horses, Tyler Ramsey ing about characters who are worn is a multi instrumentalist whose Nowadays by the Buzzcocks, but airplay; it doesn’t have the two- A Piece of What You Need doesn’t minute hook required … besides, and world-weary, real people in real musical stylings are steeped in settings. Highlights include Tracy the mountains of North Carolina collapse under the weight of its own two minutes would never do justice irony, even in delivering infeasibly to this work. A bit like offering a Chapman’s All That You Have Is Your where he immersed himself in the Soul and Patty Griffins’ beautifully local folk and blues styles of music. jaunty suicide notes or implausibly chapter instead of the whole book: surprised cheerfulness. Which it this needs to be devoured as a penned Moon Song. LF This album is aurally intoxicating. The opening title track is both does, suspiciously successfully – I whole. Smilers isn’t a happy record think perhaps Mr Thompson fails to – the characters and subjects A THING OF THE PAST simple in idea and lyric yet rich in Vetifer layer and sonic beauty. He some- protesteth too much and too readily, definitely have a depressive edge – and he actually is a happy-go-lucky $24.95 times sounds like a young Neil but these have been written with a type who wants to make bright, For Vetifer’s first Young. More gems follow. None sensitivity that shines through via shiny pop songs. His aim is never album in a better than No One Goes Out, Wor- beautiful melodies and Mann’s particularly true – but aiming for couple of years, ried and the beautiful instrumental lulling voice. Some are calling this Marshall Crenshaw and hitting the a covers record Birdwings. If you steer a musical Mann’s best work to date and while Travelling Wilburys is better than seemed like a track away from the beaten path I would hesitate at that statement, aiming for Nick Cave and hitting strange direction then luxurious surprises are in her body of work is of such a high Renee Geyer, or for George Jones to go in. But due to the fact that store. So much great music to be standard, it doesn’t really matter. and hitting Conway Twitty. I bet the band’s only constant member, heard ... add this to the pile. LF Smilers is evocative, rewarding he’s tired of being upset ... Andy Cabic, didn’t have any listening. Mark Luffman is from original songs written but wanted a TO SURVIVE Morgana Keating is from Readings Malvern Readings Hawthorn reason to get together, he forged Joan as Policewoman ahead anyway. The album is at once $29.95 CITY THAT CARE FORGOT THE FELICE BROTHERS a warm and easy listen. Songs seem JAPW is Joan Wasser, a multi-in- familiar but more so because of strumentalist who has played in Dr John and The Felice Brothers the Lower 911 $25.95 their easy ambling pace than for bands such as the Dambuilders $25.95 Not since The Band has a band so the writers names on offer here, and Those Bastard Souls with Jeff Compassion fatigue killer! I’m completely risen out of the earth historical music buffs apologies! Buckley’s guitarist Michael Tighe. not a particularly charitable guy, and truly captured the history of The versions are great and it makes In 2002, she formed Joan as Police- and this could be dedicated to its nation. Of stagecoaches and you want to track down the woman, a reference to the classic Geelong or Canterbury as far guns, of settlers and explorers, originals. A staple of our in-store 70s cop show starring Angie Dick- as I’m concerned. Guilt-ridden cities rising and different cultures play at Port Melbourne, this release inson. Her breakout release Real superstars have been guilty of hours blending in a melting pot. It is the deserves a wider audience. LF Life was an instant classic scoring and hours of terrible music that Depression and moonshiners and rave reviews, which Joan backed up has failed to feed Bangaladesh, let black-and-white TV. If you’re not THE BEST OF with amazing live shows in 2006 in alone The World, ever since the hearing these things when listening Radiohead Melbourne and Sydney. It is with phrase ‘tax deductible’ entered the to The Felice Brothers, then you CD $30.95 DVD $29.95 great pleasure that we greet her music industry dictionary right probably just don’t get them. Love them, hate new CD, To Survive. The opening next to ‘free advertising’. So they What intrigues me about these them. Either track, Honour My Wishes, is slow care. Do we care? All I care to say guys is that for all the layers and way, you can’t and plaintive, then a track like To about City That Care Forgot is that landscapes that inhabit their songs, ignore the Be Loved is just so joyous. This it’s a great Dr John album that isn’t it is the space and silence and band’s place in CD moves so effortlessly between particularly angry or brokenhearted atmosphere that draw you in – music history or musical styles. The Track Magpies but is mature and dignified and and of course, the brilliant lyrics the many, many is reminiscent of Carole Bayer sometimes lithe and funky. Oh – and imagery. They are like a great music scribes Sager or Burt Bacharach. Start of it’s referring to New Orleans, not book you can’t put down. Grab a who have labelled OK Computer, My Heart speaks to me of that one Geelong. New Orleans has been coffee and a bickie and enjoy!! The Bends and Kid A as some of the moment in your life when someone forgotten since 1938, evidently. 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Bhatt and Ry Cooder’s you instantly know that one of Woven with an array of desperate the atmosphere of a live gig. classic Meeting Across the River is country’s finest acts has returned characters whose plight is played close. The highlight for me is Gypsy with another killer album filled out to the strains of some glorious- LOVERLY Anandi, a six-minute-plus slice of with organ driven, drum thumpin’, ly skewed and shimmering music, Cassandra Wilson blissful sounds that references the Theremin swirling garage rock this could be the record that takes $29.95 Hawaiian music traditiona before tunes that are once again guaran- the band out of the cult status they Wilson pares back for her latest returning to restate its beautiful teed to add to their already stellar occupied for so long and puts them recording. In comparison to her motif. There are stately ragas and live show. Buy this album then squarely where they belong. DM heavily produced collaboration more playful influences from Gyp- check out the gig guide and go with pop producer T. Bone Burnett sy, Sufi and Carnatic traditions, as enjoy it live with a couple of EVIL URGES on her previous album Thun- well as some high-energy playing relaxing beverages. My Morning Jacket derbird, her new album Loverly reminiscent of John McLaughlin’s James Power is from $29.95 presents a program of acoustic jazz pioneering guitar work with Shakti Readings St Kilda. This Kentucky band has been standards with a compact group of from the late 70s. making excellent records for some musicians. The ensemble includes EARTH TO THE time, 2005’s Z being a particular luminaries such as Jason Moran on TRANSYLVANIA DANDY WARHOLS highlight, so it was with some piano, Lonnie Plaxico on bass, and SOUNDTRACK Dandy Warhols excitement that I approached this Herlin Riley on drums. Wilson’s $30.95 $29.95. Released 18 July release. Theirs is a sound that is blues singing is the highlight on A new Tony Gatlif film soundtrack On this follow up to 2005’s Oddor- difficult to describe. Based around such classics as St. James Infirmary is always a musical feast. This torium or Warlords of Mars it’s not the extraordinary vocals of main and Dust My Broom. collaboration between Gatlif until track 4’s (Wasp in the Lotus) man Jim James, they sit somewhere and Delphine Matoulet is a that you realise you are in fact between rootsy Americana and LIFECYCLE spectacular affair and easily eclipses listening to the Dandy Warhols. blistering, pop-infused indie rock, Yellowjackets the more contemporary Gypsy sounds from Exils, as good as that From here on in, it’s classic Dandys all doused in a healthy dose of $31.95 was. There’s great singing from with swirling guitar drones (Dreamt reverb. Whilst listening to this truly After many years together the Beattta Palya and some very excit- of Yes), spacey harmonies (Talk Ra- fantastic record, some names that Yellowjackets continue to entertain ing paying on violin cymbalon and dio) and languid atmospherics. It’s sprang to mind were Prince, James audiences with their brand of fu- clarinet, as well as some slower, no Thirteen Tales from Urban Bo- Taylor and 70s-era Aerosmith. sion music. They seem invigorated moodier but really beautiful flute hemia (then again… what is?), but Shouldn’t make sense I know, but on Lifecycle by the addition of work. I have yet to see this film, the Dandys have delivered another somehow, well, it just does. Sure to guitarist Mike Stern, who plays a though it dates from 2006, but this quality album that will keep their be up there with the best at year’s central role, not only performing is indeed a stand-alone soundtrack legions of fans happy and ensure end. Get on board! 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T Bone Burnett by Michael Wallace create a fusion which they perform FAIREST FLOOER $29.95 to perfection. Originally conceived in 1996 as a HISTORY, MYSTERY Karine Polwart musical accompaniment to a Sam Bill Frisell $29.95 Shepard play of the same name, $32.95 Folk & World Polwart’s very fine folk-pop album Tooth of Crime represents producer This is an exciting two-disc release by Paul Barr was previewed earlier this year and extraordinaire T Bone Burnett’s from the ever explorative and expres- this time she has returned to her return to duties on the other side sive Bill Frisell. His compositions on BOG BODIES AND traditional folk roots and produced of the mixing desk. What he has History, Mystery, which are performed OTHER STORIES a very good collection of traditional delivered is a dark and richly by an octet that includes horns, MUSIC FOR GUITAR songs. Polwart is a great singer and intense piece of work that sounds a string trio, and a rhythm section, Gerry O’Beirne brings an air of drama (not unlike June Tabor) to these songs and very much like the soundtrack embrace a wide variety of musical $32.95 it was intended to be. There is a backgrounds, from Malian guitar CALCUTTA CHRONICLES makes them her own – which is studied feel of character and narra- music to Delta blues, jazz, folk, and INDIAN SLIDE GUITAR pretty impressive when you consider tive throughout the record which soul. Although there is such variety of ODYSSEY some of the versions of The Death makes it not instantly accessible, influence, the album is unified by the of Queen Jane and Will Ye Go to Debashish Bhattacharya Flanders have been recorded by the but when listened to in its entirety, strength of the ensemble interplay $31.95 Bothy Band and Ossian. Fairest utterly compelling. Featuring some and group sound, not to mention Debashish Bhattacharya is a master Flooer also features some very beau- beautiful guitar work from Marc Frisell’s unique and captivating guitar guitar player who designs his Ribot, Burnett creates a wonderful style. Highly recommended. tiful acoustic guitar playing.

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