Brenda Gifford Archives

THEIR WORDS BLAZE: Phillip Hall ReviewsToo Deadly: Our Voice, Our Way, Our Business

Verity La July 10, 2018 Black Cockatoo, Through the Looking Glass: Reviews

My elders, I hear them speak loud and strong with messages of culture and belonging. The essence of me. Who I am and who I’ll always be. Proud. Strong. Aboriginal. …

A Monster Mash of Genres: Lloyd Shepherd's The English MonsterAugust 22, 2014
Review by Robert Goodman At first blush The English Monster comes across as yet another historical criminal procedural. These are crime genre novels set in a historical era and usually ... Read More
of home and other closely guarded things (Justine Poon)December 15, 2017
grandmother. dawn begins a golden thread circling the dark earth and coils us back from dreams like deep sea divers inside diving bells breaching surface, breath-fog clearing from the glass, ... Read More
Rare and endangered (Robyn Cadwallader)January 29, 2013
Her parents had named her Dale. Dale Bailey Collins, but at home they called her Bailey, each claiming it was the other one that had wanted Dale. And so, Bailey ... Read More