ENLIGHTENMENTS Little Demon, Michael Wilding, Melbourne: Arcadia, 2018, 260 pages, $29.95 Captain Cook named Cape Byron for ‘Foul-Weather Jack’ Byron, the adventuring Vice-Admiral who sailed past the easternmost point of the Southern Land in 1764, part of that endless English outpouring that shaped today’s topography. The weatherbeaten Enlightenment navigator, for whom beaches were only important… Continue reading
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My Quadrant review of Michael Wilding’s novel, Little Demon
Pleased to say the May issue of the renowned Australian journal Quadrant carries my review of Michael Wilding’s latest novel, Little Demon – https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2018/05/
Michael Wilding’s Spiked review of Displacement
MICHAEL WILDING’S SPIKED REVIEW OF DISPLACEMENT Very pleased to say that the renowned Australian writer Michael Wilding has reviewed Displacement handsomely for Spiked. Here’s the link – http://www.spiked-online.com/spiked-review/article/the-loneliness-of-the-high-rise-free-runner/20005#.WVmAJjOZNok And here’s the text. Thanks, Michael. The loneliness of the long distance free-runner Through all the formal variations of the English novel, one theme recurs: the two nations. The huge… Continue reading
Growing Wild by Michael Wilding
Class-Observation Growing Wild, Michael Wilding, 2016, Melbourne: Arcadia, pb., 302pp., Aus$39.95 A hoicked-up small boy sits astride a yoked-up heavy horse, while three sun-stained men smile at posterity. Hairy hooves press good grass, lush trees shade old ridges, and though the cover is black-and-white we feel the burden of that 1940s sun, the texture of… Continue reading
My Spectator Australia review of Growing Wild by Michael Wilding
My Spectator Australia review of Michael Wilding’s memoir, Growing Wild, was published on the 3rd of June – link here: https://spectator.com.au/2017/06/class-observation/
Into the valley – Michael Wilding’s In the Valley of the Weed
Into the Valley In the Valley of the Weed, Michael Wilding, Melbourne: Arcadia, 2016, $29.95 “Old radicals become quietist” a character in Valley of the Weed tells Plant, the appropriately-named private detective investigating the disappearance of a high-profile academic. “They stop socialising. Stay at home and surrender to the comforting millenarian conviction that change will… Continue reading
My “Australian Spectator” review of Michael Wilding’s new novel
My review of Michael Wilding’s latest novel, In The Valley of the Weed, is now online at the Australian Spectator – https://spectator.com.au/2017/01/spurred-on/