Kerryn Goldsworthy

Nov 6, 2024 | australianbookreview.com.au | Kerryn Goldsworthy |Arts Highlights

Marian Quartly’s ancestors were of ‘the middling sort’, a term used by historian Margaret Hunt to describe ‘people who were neither wage labourers nor gentry’: artisans, shopkeepers, skilled tradesmen, yeoman farmers, and the like. This class of people, says Quartly, ‘shared values and expectations that were shaped by the dangers of the commercial world; they were temperate, prudent, proud of their independence’. The many branches of Quartly’s family fitted this loose classification.

Jul 18, 2024 | australianbookreview.com.au | Kerryn Goldsworthy |Arts Highlights

Towards the end of the last century, Australian little magazines were forced to make a choice: become more interdisciplinary, or die. Those that have survived, and the new ones that have emerged, have taken on a new coherence and cohesion. Still mostly featuring a varied mix of writers, genres and approaches, they tend these days to have some unifying topic, or topos, and to be conducting a kind of internal conversation within their covers.

Jun 28, 2024 | smh.com.au | Kerryn Goldsworthy

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Oct 30, 2023 | australianbookreview.com.au | Kerryn Goldsworthy

Near the end of this biography of Frank Moorhouse, author Catharine Lumby tells a story that will strike retrospective fear into the heart of any male reader who has ever climbed a tree. Watching an outdoor ceremony in which a cohort of Cub Scouts was being initiated into the Boy Scout troop to which he belonged himself, and having climbed a tree to get a better view, the young Moorhouse ‘slipped, and he slid a couple of metres down the trunk of the tree with his legs wrapped around it.

Oct 10, 2023 | smh.com.au | Kerryn Goldsworthy

By Kerryn Goldsworthy Save Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Got it FICTION The Running GraveRobert GalbraithLittle, Brown, $34.99 Under the pseudonym of Robert Galbraith, J.K. Rowling has now produced seven increasingly hefty crime novels in 10 years, all featuring private detectives Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott.