My review of this title over on my blog The Itinerant Librarian. Click to read more.

My latest podcast is up on the New Books Network! In it, I interview Patrick Sharma about his book on the transformative tenure of Robert McNamara as president of the World Bank. Enjoy!

My latest podcast is up on the New Books Network website! In it, I interview Patrick Fuliang Shan about his new biography of Yuan Shikai, the imperial official who became president of China before embarking on a failed bid to become emperor. Enjoy!

As I found out after reading, this is one of the most famous and most widely-read novels of the first Australian recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Although critically acclaimed abroad it wasn't much of a success in Australia when it first came out in 1955.

It's the slow-paced life story of a good though rather taciturn farmer and his family in the stunning nature of New South Wales in the first half of the twentieth century. Things change all around, the children go their own ways and relations between husband and wife are characterised by affection and habit.

For more be invited to click here and read my long review on my book blog Edith's Miscellany or its duplicate on Read the Nobels!

My latest podcast is up on the New Books Network website! In it, I interview Michael Patrick Cullinane about his history of the development of Theodore Roosevelt's posthumous image (which I reviewed here). Enjoy!