Cameron Woodhead and Steven Carroll cast their eyes over recent fiction and non-fiction
Jorge Luis Borges wrote somewhere that Argentines allow for the possibility a novel might be great despite winning a prestigious award. It’s a cynicism Australians tend to share, and in, Colin Batrouney delves into a wide-ranging satire that swirls around a new literary prize. Funded by the wealthy Bannerman family as a form of arts-washing, the prize announces its shortlist on the same day its administrator, middle-aged Gideon Bannerman, goes missing.
It’s one example of what might be called the disarmingly candid eccentricity of her memoir. One of her favourite opening lines on meeting someone for the first time being “When did you have your first f---?” Peter Rees’ in-depth biography charts Fischer’s story from well-off conservative country life, the shock and homesickness of boarding school at Melbourne’s catholic Xavier College , joining the Country Party in 1965, serving as an officer in Vietnam, where he sustained shrapnel wounds, and entering politics when he returned, eventually becoming deputy PM.
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