Jane Ring Frank

Nov 3, 2024 | inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Jo Case |John Miles |Jane Ring Frank

Fair go and don’t come the raw prawn – telling the story of Australia using Aussie lingo seems dinkum to me. And there I have managed to use several references already. Australia in 100 Words by Amanda Laugensen is a brilliant idea. The author asked herself: what words would you select to tell the story of Australia?

Oct 30, 2024 | inreview.com.au | Suzie Keen |Jo Case |John Miles |Jane Ring Frank

Queenslander Lech Blaine’s first memoir, Car Crash (2021), explored his guilt and complicated grief after surviving a car crash that killed three of his friends. Praised for its sensitive exploration of Australian masculinity, it launched him as a major Australian writer. His terrific Quarterly Essay, Top Blokes: The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power, exposing the artificiality of then-PM Scott Morrison’s working-class cosplay, was published soon after.

Oct 29, 2024 | inreview.com.au | Suzie Keen |John Miles |Jane Ring Frank |PHIL BROWN

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Oct 29, 2024 | inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Jane Ring Frank |Vicki Englund

It was on one of many trips to Japan that Kirsten Siddle decided to transport the Japanese tradition of magic bars back home. Siddle, a former producer at QPAC is creative director of Broad Encounters, an outfit that creates and tours multi-sensory, immersive live productions. Her company’s A Midnight Visit (a journey into the world of Edgar Allen Poe) was a huge hit in Brisbane and ran here for six months in 2021 and 2022.

Oct 28, 2024 | inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Jane Ring Frank |John Miles

I was delighted when this heartwarming story of a “vaguely dalmatian-like crossbreed dog” reached the top of my reading pile. What’s not to love in a tale recounted by a rescue dog that journeys from a Singapore dog shelter to live with “her” – his writer-rescuer in Kings Cross, Sydney, Australia? Or is it an odyssey from “tropical jungle to concrete jungle”, as author Sun Jung puts it.